NIMS ICS-300 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. What NIMS component focuses on the Incident Command System,
Emergency Operations Center, Multiagency Coordination Groups, and Joint
Information Systems?
a) Resource Management
b) Communications and Information Management
c) Command and Coordination
d) Preparedness - ANSWER ✔ c) Command and Coordination
2. When there is an orderly line of authority and reporting relationships within
the ranks of an organization, the organization is said to have a ___.
a) Chain of Command
b) Unity of Command
c) Unified Command
d) Preparedness - ANSWER ✔ a) Chain of Command
3. What Incident Management role provides strategic direction and delegates
the authority needed to accomplish the incident objectives?
, a) Operations Section Chief
b) Incident Commander
c) Liaison Offficer
d) Agency Executives/Senior Officials - ANSWER ✔ d) Agency
Executives/Senior Officials
4. Module expansion at an incident is based on ___.
a) increasing span of control to 8:1
b) decreasing span of control to 2:1
c) matching an organization's structure to the task
d) the person in charge - ANSWER ✔ c) matching an organization's
structure to the task
5. Formal communication - ANSWER ✔ Follows chain of command
6. Common Terminology - ANSWER ✔ NIMS require use of plain English
7. PIO & JIC - ANSWER ✔ Are critical for the public
8. Senior Officials - ANSWER ✔ Provide authority (not objectives)
9. Incident Command - ANSWER ✔ Base on the span of Control
10.Who can order resources - ANSWER ✔ IC, Logs section Chief, and Supply
UL
, 11.Example of Policies and Guidlines - ANSWER ✔ COOP- Continuity of
operations plan
12.Example of something that will increase complexity of an incident -
ANSWER ✔ Community and Responder Safety
13.Transfer of Command includes? - ANSWER ✔ Assessment, Briefing, and
ICS201
14.Operational Planning steps include - ANSWER ✔ Logistical concerns and
cost/benefit analysis
15.ICS 215 - ANSWER ✔ Operational planning worksheet
16.ICS215A - ANSWER ✔ Safety Analysis
17.Purpose of the planning meeting - ANSWER ✔ To review/validate proposed
plan
18.who leads planning meeting - ANSWER ✔ Planning section cheif
19.ICS 202 - ANSWER ✔ Includes incident objectives
20.single point ordering - ANSWER ✔ Ordering all resources through one
dispatch EOC center
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. What NIMS component focuses on the Incident Command System,
Emergency Operations Center, Multiagency Coordination Groups, and Joint
Information Systems?
a) Resource Management
b) Communications and Information Management
c) Command and Coordination
d) Preparedness - ANSWER ✔ c) Command and Coordination
2. When there is an orderly line of authority and reporting relationships within
the ranks of an organization, the organization is said to have a ___.
a) Chain of Command
b) Unity of Command
c) Unified Command
d) Preparedness - ANSWER ✔ a) Chain of Command
3. What Incident Management role provides strategic direction and delegates
the authority needed to accomplish the incident objectives?
, a) Operations Section Chief
b) Incident Commander
c) Liaison Offficer
d) Agency Executives/Senior Officials - ANSWER ✔ d) Agency
Executives/Senior Officials
4. Module expansion at an incident is based on ___.
a) increasing span of control to 8:1
b) decreasing span of control to 2:1
c) matching an organization's structure to the task
d) the person in charge - ANSWER ✔ c) matching an organization's
structure to the task
5. Formal communication - ANSWER ✔ Follows chain of command
6. Common Terminology - ANSWER ✔ NIMS require use of plain English
7. PIO & JIC - ANSWER ✔ Are critical for the public
8. Senior Officials - ANSWER ✔ Provide authority (not objectives)
9. Incident Command - ANSWER ✔ Base on the span of Control
10.Who can order resources - ANSWER ✔ IC, Logs section Chief, and Supply
UL
, 11.Example of Policies and Guidlines - ANSWER ✔ COOP- Continuity of
operations plan
12.Example of something that will increase complexity of an incident -
ANSWER ✔ Community and Responder Safety
13.Transfer of Command includes? - ANSWER ✔ Assessment, Briefing, and
ICS201
14.Operational Planning steps include - ANSWER ✔ Logistical concerns and
cost/benefit analysis
15.ICS 215 - ANSWER ✔ Operational planning worksheet
16.ICS215A - ANSWER ✔ Safety Analysis
17.Purpose of the planning meeting - ANSWER ✔ To review/validate proposed
plan
18.who leads planning meeting - ANSWER ✔ Planning section cheif
19.ICS 202 - ANSWER ✔ Includes incident objectives
20.single point ordering - ANSWER ✔ Ordering all resources through one
dispatch EOC center
