NIMS ICS 400: PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What are Area Command responsibilities? - ✔✔• Overall direction of assigned
incidents
• Ensuring that conflicts are resolved, incident objectives are established, and strategies
are selected for the use of scarce resources
• Coordinating with local, state, tribal, territorial, and Federal departments and agencies,
as well as NGOs and other private sector elements
• Does not have operational responsibilities, but prioritizes the use of scarce resources
among the incidents
✔✔Includes four NIMS Functional Groups: - ✔✔Incident Command System (ICS),
Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs),
Multiagency Coordination Groups (MAC Groups) and
Joint Information Systems (JIS).
✔✔NIMS Coordination definition - ✔✔The exchange of information systematically
among principals who have or may have a need to know certain information to carry out
specific incident management responsibilities.
✔✔NIMS Command definition - ✔✔- Delegated authority for using agency resources
- The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or
delegated authority.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔A NIMS guiding principle stating that each individual
involved in incident management reports to and takes direction from
only one person.
✔✔Common Coordination Organizations - ✔✔Decision Makers:
- MAC Groups, crisis action teams, policy commity, agency execs
Facilities/Ops supports elements:
- Dispatch centers, EOCS, Department ops centers, national ops centers
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Primary Function - ✔✔- Collect, analyze, and
share info
- Support resource needs and requests
- Facilitate and coordinate operations support
✔✔Mulitagency Coordination Group (MAC Group) - ✔✔- Policy level body
- Resource prioritization and allocation
- Enabling decision-making among elected and appointed officials and those
responsible for managing the incident (e.g., the Incident
Commander).
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What are Area Command responsibilities? - ✔✔• Overall direction of assigned
incidents
• Ensuring that conflicts are resolved, incident objectives are established, and strategies
are selected for the use of scarce resources
• Coordinating with local, state, tribal, territorial, and Federal departments and agencies,
as well as NGOs and other private sector elements
• Does not have operational responsibilities, but prioritizes the use of scarce resources
among the incidents
✔✔Includes four NIMS Functional Groups: - ✔✔Incident Command System (ICS),
Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs),
Multiagency Coordination Groups (MAC Groups) and
Joint Information Systems (JIS).
✔✔NIMS Coordination definition - ✔✔The exchange of information systematically
among principals who have or may have a need to know certain information to carry out
specific incident management responsibilities.
✔✔NIMS Command definition - ✔✔- Delegated authority for using agency resources
- The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or
delegated authority.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔A NIMS guiding principle stating that each individual
involved in incident management reports to and takes direction from
only one person.
✔✔Common Coordination Organizations - ✔✔Decision Makers:
- MAC Groups, crisis action teams, policy commity, agency execs
Facilities/Ops supports elements:
- Dispatch centers, EOCS, Department ops centers, national ops centers
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Primary Function - ✔✔- Collect, analyze, and
share info
- Support resource needs and requests
- Facilitate and coordinate operations support
✔✔Mulitagency Coordination Group (MAC Group) - ✔✔- Policy level body
- Resource prioritization and allocation
- Enabling decision-making among elected and appointed officials and those
responsible for managing the incident (e.g., the Incident
Commander).
