ICS 100 and 700b QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

ICS correct answer: Incident Command System What is ICS? correct answer: a standardized approach to incident management NIMS correct answer: National Incident Management System What is NIMS? correct answer: a comprehensive approach for managing emergencies Describe the whole community approach to ICS correct answer: a means by which residents, emergency management practitioners, organizational and community leaders, and government officials can collectively understand and assess the needs of their respective communities and determine the best ways to organize and strengthen their assets, capacities, and interests Name the 14 NIMS management characteristics correct answer: common terminology, incident action planning, chain of command and unity of command, modular organization, manageable span of control, designated incident facilities, resource management, dispatch/deployment, integrated communications, information and intelligence management, management by objectives, establishment and transfer of command, unified command, accountability common terminology correct answer: use of standard terms and common names to avoid confusion modular organization correct answer: established by incident commander and enables accountability and avoids confusion management by objectives correct answer: these drive operations, are specific and measurable, identify strategies and issue assignments to reach objectives, document results. IAP correct answer: Incident Action Plan What is an IAP? correct answer: focuses on future timeframes, concise means of communicating incident priorities manageable span of control correct answer: # of resources one supervisor can manage effectively; usually a 1:5 ratio is ideal incidents facilities and locations correct answer: include incident command post, incident base and staging areas, camps, mass casualty triage area, point of distribution, and emergency shelters resource management correct answer: resource identification and typing, qualification, certification, and credentialing personnel, planning for resources, acquiring, storing, and inventorying