NIMS IS-700.B FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
UPDATED 2025/26 A+ SCORE SOLUTION LATEST REVIEW
Staging Areas - --ANSWERS---Temporarily position and account
for personnel, supplies, and equipment awaiting assignment
Incident Base - --ANSWERS---Location at which personnel
conduct primary support activities (may be co-located with the
ICP)
Camps - --ANSWERS---Satellites on an incident base,
established where they can best support incident operations by
providing food, sleeping areas, sanitation, and minor
maintenance and servicing of equipment
Area Command - --ANSWERS---Oversees the management of
multiple incidents or a very complex incident through
establishing multiple ICS organizations
ICS is used to manage - --ANSWERS---On-scene, tactical-level
response
EOC is used to manage - --ANSWERS---From off-site locations
in order to:
1. Address imminent threats and hazards
2. Provide coordinated support to incident Command, on-scene
personnel and/or other eocs
3 Common ways to organize eocs - --ANSWERS---1. ICS or ICS-
like structure
2. Incident Support Model structure
3. Departmental structure
,EOC activation level 1 - --ANSWERS---Full Activation
EOC activation level 2 - --ANSWERS---Enhanced steady-
state/partial activation
EOC activation level 3 - --ANSWERS---Normal
operations/steady state
MAC Group functions - --ANSWERS---1. Act as policy level body
2. Support resource prioritization and allocation
3. Make cooperative multi-agency decisions
4. Enable decision making among elected and appointed officials
and the Incident Commander responsible for managing the
incident
Function of JIS - --ANSWERS---Integrates incident information
and public affairs into a unified organization that provides
consistent, coordinated, accurate, accessible, timely, and
complete information to the public and stakeholders during
incident operations
JIS activities - --ANSWERS---1. Develop and deliver coordinated
interagency messages
2. Develop, recommend and execute public information plans and
strategies
3. Advise on public affairs issues that could affect the incident
Management effort
4. Address and manage rumors and inaccurate information that
could undermine public confidence
JIC steps to informing public - --ANSWERS---1. Gathering
2. Verifying
3. Coordinating
, 4. Disseminating
The Federal Government only becomes involved with a response
when: - --ANSWERS---1. State governors or tribal leaders
request Federal assistance and their requests are approved
2. Federal interests are involved
3. Statute or regulation authorized or requires
4 key communications and information systems principles - --
ANSWERS---1. Interoperability
2. Reliability, Scalability, and Portability
3. Resilience and Redundancy
4. Security
Strategic communications - --ANSWERS---High level directions,
including resource priority decisions, roles and responsibilities
determinations, and overall incident management courses of
action
Tactical Communications - --ANSWERS---Communications
among and between on-scene and tactical personnel and
cooperating agencies and organizations
Support Communications - --ANSWERS---Coordination and
support of strategic and tactical communications
Public Communications - --ANSWERS---Alerts and warnings,
press conferences
Incident Action Plan - --ANSWERS---Incident-specific plans
improve situational awareness and describe the objective and
tactics of the incident management
UPDATED 2025/26 A+ SCORE SOLUTION LATEST REVIEW
Staging Areas - --ANSWERS---Temporarily position and account
for personnel, supplies, and equipment awaiting assignment
Incident Base - --ANSWERS---Location at which personnel
conduct primary support activities (may be co-located with the
ICP)
Camps - --ANSWERS---Satellites on an incident base,
established where they can best support incident operations by
providing food, sleeping areas, sanitation, and minor
maintenance and servicing of equipment
Area Command - --ANSWERS---Oversees the management of
multiple incidents or a very complex incident through
establishing multiple ICS organizations
ICS is used to manage - --ANSWERS---On-scene, tactical-level
response
EOC is used to manage - --ANSWERS---From off-site locations
in order to:
1. Address imminent threats and hazards
2. Provide coordinated support to incident Command, on-scene
personnel and/or other eocs
3 Common ways to organize eocs - --ANSWERS---1. ICS or ICS-
like structure
2. Incident Support Model structure
3. Departmental structure
,EOC activation level 1 - --ANSWERS---Full Activation
EOC activation level 2 - --ANSWERS---Enhanced steady-
state/partial activation
EOC activation level 3 - --ANSWERS---Normal
operations/steady state
MAC Group functions - --ANSWERS---1. Act as policy level body
2. Support resource prioritization and allocation
3. Make cooperative multi-agency decisions
4. Enable decision making among elected and appointed officials
and the Incident Commander responsible for managing the
incident
Function of JIS - --ANSWERS---Integrates incident information
and public affairs into a unified organization that provides
consistent, coordinated, accurate, accessible, timely, and
complete information to the public and stakeholders during
incident operations
JIS activities - --ANSWERS---1. Develop and deliver coordinated
interagency messages
2. Develop, recommend and execute public information plans and
strategies
3. Advise on public affairs issues that could affect the incident
Management effort
4. Address and manage rumors and inaccurate information that
could undermine public confidence
JIC steps to informing public - --ANSWERS---1. Gathering
2. Verifying
3. Coordinating
, 4. Disseminating
The Federal Government only becomes involved with a response
when: - --ANSWERS---1. State governors or tribal leaders
request Federal assistance and their requests are approved
2. Federal interests are involved
3. Statute or regulation authorized or requires
4 key communications and information systems principles - --
ANSWERS---1. Interoperability
2. Reliability, Scalability, and Portability
3. Resilience and Redundancy
4. Security
Strategic communications - --ANSWERS---High level directions,
including resource priority decisions, roles and responsibilities
determinations, and overall incident management courses of
action
Tactical Communications - --ANSWERS---Communications
among and between on-scene and tactical personnel and
cooperating agencies and organizations
Support Communications - --ANSWERS---Coordination and
support of strategic and tactical communications
Public Communications - --ANSWERS---Alerts and warnings,
press conferences
Incident Action Plan - --ANSWERS---Incident-specific plans
improve situational awareness and describe the objective and
tactics of the incident management
