Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is the NRF? - CORRECT ANSWER - a guide to how the nation responds to all types
of disasters and emergencies.
What is the intended audience for NRF? - CORRECT ANSWER - The whole community
National Preparedness Goal? - CORRECT ANSWER - A secure and resilient nation with
the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate,
respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.
What are the 5 mission areas? - CORRECT ANSWER - Prevention, Protection,
Mitigation, Response, Recovery
What is Prevention? - CORRECT ANSWER - capabilities necessary to avoid, prevent, or
stop a threatened or actual act of terrorism.
What is Protection? - CORRECT ANSWER - capabilities necessary to secure the
homeland against terrorism and man made or natural disasters.
What is Mitigation? - CORRECT ANSWER - capabilities necessary to reduce loss of life
and property by lessening the impact of disasters.
What is Response? - CORRECT ANSWER - capabilities necessary to save lives, protect
property and the environment, and meet basic human needs after an incident has occurred.
What is Recovery? - CORRECT ANSWER - capabilities necessary to assist communities
affected by an incident to recover effectively.
, How many core capabilities are there? - CORRECT ANSWER - 32
What is the point of the national preparedness system? - CORRECT ANSWER - guidance,
concepts, processes, and tools that enable the whole community to meet the National
Preparedness Goal.
What is the point of the NRF? - CORRECT ANSWER - To assist response partners in
effectively carrying out the Response mission,
What is the intent of the Federal Inter agency Operational Plan? - CORRECT ANSWER -
The intent of the FIOP is to support local, state, tribal, territorial, insular-area, and Federal
government plans to ensure a common operational focus.
How many guiding principle are there? - CORRECT ANSWER -5
What are the 5 guiding principles for response? - CORRECT ANSWER - Engaged
Partnership
Tiered Response
Scalable, Flexible, and Adaptable Operational Capabilities
Unity of Effort Through Unified Command
Readiness to Act
What is engaging the whole community in preparing for and responding to disasters in order to
manage risk to communities and infrastructure called? - CORRECT ANSWER - Engaged
Partnership
What is the process of starting at the lowest jurisdictional level and working your way up called?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Tiered Response
What are some of the unified command benefits? - CORRECT ANSWER - Collective,
strategic approach