FEMA IS-200 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔facilities unit (logistics) - ✔✔setting up, maintaining, and demobilizing ICP, incident
bases and camps. provide law enforcement/security needed for incident support
✔✔supply unit (logistics) - ✔✔ordering personnel, equipment, and supplies. receiving
and storing supplies. maintain inventory of supplies, servicing nonexpendable supplies
and equipment
✔✔ground support unit (logistics) - ✔✔supporting out of service resources, transporting
personnel, supplies, food, and equipment; fuel, service, maintenance repair of vehicles
and other ground support equipment. implement traffic plan
✔✔time unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔responsible for equipment and personnel time
recording
✔✔procurement unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔administering all financial matters pertaining
to vendor contracts, leases, and fiscal agreements
✔✔compensation/claims unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔responsible for financial concerns
resulting from property damage, injuries, or fatalities
✔✔cost unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔tracking costs, analyzing cost data, making cost
estimates and recommending cost saving measures
✔✔incident tools - ✔✔-EOP from affected jurisdiction
-maps of affected area
-agency policy and procedure manuals for responding agencies
✔✔ICS forms - ✔✔provide method of recording and communicating key incident
specific information in specific, consistent, interoperable format
✔✔incident briefing - ✔✔provides IC/UC with status info used for briefing, incoming
resources, incoming IC or team, immediate supervisor
✔✔briefing info - ✔✔-incident situation (map, significant events and incident objectives
-summary of current actions
-status of resources assigned and ordered
(can serve as IAP until planning section established and make IAP)
✔✔staff level briefing - ✔✔delivered to resources assigned to nonoperational and
support tasks at ICP or base
, ✔✔field level briefing - ✔✔delivered to individual resources/crews who are assigned to
operational tasks and/or work at/near incident site
✔✔section level briefing - ✔✔delivered to entire section and include operational period
briefing
✔✔briefing topic checklist - ✔✔-current situation and objectives
-safety issues/emergency procedures
-work tasks, facilities, and work area
-communications protocols
-supervisory/support expectations
-process for acquiring resources, supplies, equipment
-work schedules
-questions, concerns
✔✔operations workload - ✔✔immediate and often massive. on rapidly escalating
incident, section chief determine appropriate tactics; organize, assign, and supervise
resources, participate in planning process
✔✔planning workload - ✔✔resources and situation units busy in initial phases of
incident. in later stages, workload of documentation and demobilization units will
increase
✔✔logistics workload - ✔✔supply and communications units will be very active in initial
and final stages
✔✔complexity analysis benefits - ✔✔-identify resource requirements
-determine if existing management systems appropriate
✔✔complexity analysis factors - ✔✔-community and responder safety
-weather and environmental influences
-impacts to life, liberty, and economy
-likelihood of escalating events
-potential hazardous materials
-potential crime scene
-political sensitivity, external factors, and media relations
-area involved, jurisdictional boundaries
-availability of resources
✔✔capability - ✔✔core capability for which resource most useful
✔✔category - ✔✔function for which resource is most useful
✔✔kind - ✔✔description of what resource is
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔facilities unit (logistics) - ✔✔setting up, maintaining, and demobilizing ICP, incident
bases and camps. provide law enforcement/security needed for incident support
✔✔supply unit (logistics) - ✔✔ordering personnel, equipment, and supplies. receiving
and storing supplies. maintain inventory of supplies, servicing nonexpendable supplies
and equipment
✔✔ground support unit (logistics) - ✔✔supporting out of service resources, transporting
personnel, supplies, food, and equipment; fuel, service, maintenance repair of vehicles
and other ground support equipment. implement traffic plan
✔✔time unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔responsible for equipment and personnel time
recording
✔✔procurement unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔administering all financial matters pertaining
to vendor contracts, leases, and fiscal agreements
✔✔compensation/claims unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔responsible for financial concerns
resulting from property damage, injuries, or fatalities
✔✔cost unit (finance/admin) - ✔✔tracking costs, analyzing cost data, making cost
estimates and recommending cost saving measures
✔✔incident tools - ✔✔-EOP from affected jurisdiction
-maps of affected area
-agency policy and procedure manuals for responding agencies
✔✔ICS forms - ✔✔provide method of recording and communicating key incident
specific information in specific, consistent, interoperable format
✔✔incident briefing - ✔✔provides IC/UC with status info used for briefing, incoming
resources, incoming IC or team, immediate supervisor
✔✔briefing info - ✔✔-incident situation (map, significant events and incident objectives
-summary of current actions
-status of resources assigned and ordered
(can serve as IAP until planning section established and make IAP)
✔✔staff level briefing - ✔✔delivered to resources assigned to nonoperational and
support tasks at ICP or base
, ✔✔field level briefing - ✔✔delivered to individual resources/crews who are assigned to
operational tasks and/or work at/near incident site
✔✔section level briefing - ✔✔delivered to entire section and include operational period
briefing
✔✔briefing topic checklist - ✔✔-current situation and objectives
-safety issues/emergency procedures
-work tasks, facilities, and work area
-communications protocols
-supervisory/support expectations
-process for acquiring resources, supplies, equipment
-work schedules
-questions, concerns
✔✔operations workload - ✔✔immediate and often massive. on rapidly escalating
incident, section chief determine appropriate tactics; organize, assign, and supervise
resources, participate in planning process
✔✔planning workload - ✔✔resources and situation units busy in initial phases of
incident. in later stages, workload of documentation and demobilization units will
increase
✔✔logistics workload - ✔✔supply and communications units will be very active in initial
and final stages
✔✔complexity analysis benefits - ✔✔-identify resource requirements
-determine if existing management systems appropriate
✔✔complexity analysis factors - ✔✔-community and responder safety
-weather and environmental influences
-impacts to life, liberty, and economy
-likelihood of escalating events
-potential hazardous materials
-potential crime scene
-political sensitivity, external factors, and media relations
-area involved, jurisdictional boundaries
-availability of resources
✔✔capability - ✔✔core capability for which resource most useful
✔✔category - ✔✔function for which resource is most useful
✔✔kind - ✔✔description of what resource is
