IAEM CEM ACTUAL 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔10. If the community already has an emergency operations plan, the emergency
manager should:
(a.) Assume the plan is probably outdated, and proceed to develop a new one.
(b.) Consider this part of the job done, and focus on other activities.
(c.) Coordinate a unified effort with all those responsible to keep the plan updated.
(d.) Let the people responsible for the various sections decide when and if changes are
needed. - ✔✔C
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✔✔11. Documentation is a legal and administrative requirement for an emergency
management organization. As an emergency manager, you will document which of the
following records, except:
a. incident records.
b. mutual aid activities.
c. routine staffing records.
d. situation reports. - ✔✔C
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✔✔12. Anticipated emergency operations is a budget item consisting of estimates for
emergencies that may occur during the budget cycle. What type of data may be needed
to support these estimates?
a. Emergency operations plan.
b. Exercise training plan.
c. Historical records.
d. Weather reports. - ✔✔C
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✔✔13. How is risk defined?
a. A predicted impact that a hazard would have on people, services, and specific
facilities in a community.
b. A specific point of vulnerability.
c. The magnitude, duration, seasonal pattern, and speed of onset of a hazard.
d. Typical weather patterns for a community. - ✔✔A
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✔✔14. Frequency, magnitude and potential intensity, and probable spatial extent are all
factors to consider when developing a(n):
a. Hazard profile.
b. Impact estimate.
c. Jurisdiction analysis.
d. Resource assessment. - ✔✔A
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,✔✔15. Mutual aid and assistance agreements may provide ________ when invoked.
a. Change of command
b. Unity of command
c. Policy decisions
d. Equipment such as bulldozers or dump trucks - ✔✔D
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✔✔16. Standby contracts establish the price as that which is/was in effect:
a. on the day before the emergency event.
b. on the day of the emergency event.
c. on the day after an emergency event.
d. do not establish price for the resources provided during an emergency. - ✔✔A
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✔✔17. Which one of the following objectives is considered short-term?
a. The Chamber of Commerce will work with local businesses to implement the
economic revitalization strategies developed and approved by the community leaders.
b. City departments will work with the whole community to develop permanent housing
solutions for people and their families who were left homeless by the wildland fires.
c. City departments will work with local businesses to establish temporary or interim
infrastructure to support business reopenings.
d. The public health department will work with local hospitals to rebuild
disrupted/damaged health care facilities damaged by the earthquake to current medical
standards. - ✔✔C
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✔✔18. Which one of the following exercise objectives follows the SMART format?
a. Deliver an approved points of distribution delivery route to the designated incident
commander.
b. Demonstrate the ability to assemble, supply, and support a complete flash flood
response team to pre-position for imminent response.
c. Emergency management staff will initiate and complete a call-back of EOC personnel
within 30 minutes of notification as described in the Emergency Operations Plan.
d. Finance staff will identify and begin working on short-term financial objectives. - ✔✔C
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✔✔19. Which section of the emergency operations plan addresses resource needs and
availability?
a. Administration, Finance and Logistics.
b. Direction, Control, and Coordination.
c. Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities.
d. Situation and Assumptions. - ✔✔A
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, ✔✔20. Specifying safety procedures in an incident plan is an example of which one of
the following risk control measures?
a. Eliminating the hazardous operation.
b. Engineering controls.
c. Administrative controls.
d. Using personal protective equipment. - ✔✔C
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✔✔21. Which of the following is a prevention technique or activity?
a. Conducting background investigations on personnel who have access to critical
infrastructure.
b. Developing plans and making other preparations to save lives and safeguard the
environment.
c. Identifying shelter locations and needed supplies.
d. Multi-objective planning by the whole community for local floodway development. -
✔✔A
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✔✔22. A sound prevention strategy is based on which of the following factors?
a. Installing and maintaining warning systems.
b. Strengthening zoning and building codes.
c. Training on emergency protective measures.
d. Updating immunization and quarantine policies. - ✔✔D
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✔✔23. Which of the following defines mitigation?
a. Activities designed for a community to adapt to changing conditions and to withstand
and rapidly recover from disruption due to emergencies.
b. Activities designed to ensure the entity or jurisdiction is optimally prepared to prevent
an imminent terrorist attack.
c. Activities that safeguard the jurisdiction against all types of threats and hazards,
including acts of terrorism as well as manmade or natural disasters.
d. Activities to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to persons or property, or to lessen the
actual or potential effects of an incident. - ✔✔D
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✔✔24. The emergency manager plays a unique role in helping to mitigate the
community's threats and hazards. Which of the following is a key responsibility?
a. Enforce zoning and building codes.
b. Increase awareness about the public's role in mitigation.
c. Obtain insurance to reduce risk.
d. Uphold Federal regulations intended to reduce hazard losses and provide resources
to achieve these goals. - ✔✔B
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ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔10. If the community already has an emergency operations plan, the emergency
manager should:
(a.) Assume the plan is probably outdated, and proceed to develop a new one.
(b.) Consider this part of the job done, and focus on other activities.
(c.) Coordinate a unified effort with all those responsible to keep the plan updated.
(d.) Let the people responsible for the various sections decide when and if changes are
needed. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Program Management, Part 1
✔✔11. Documentation is a legal and administrative requirement for an emergency
management organization. As an emergency manager, you will document which of the
following records, except:
a. incident records.
b. mutual aid activities.
c. routine staffing records.
d. situation reports. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Program Management, Part 2
✔✔12. Anticipated emergency operations is a budget item consisting of estimates for
emergencies that may occur during the budget cycle. What type of data may be needed
to support these estimates?
a. Emergency operations plan.
b. Exercise training plan.
c. Historical records.
d. Weather reports. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Program Management, Part 2
✔✔13. How is risk defined?
a. A predicted impact that a hazard would have on people, services, and specific
facilities in a community.
b. A specific point of vulnerability.
c. The magnitude, duration, seasonal pattern, and speed of onset of a hazard.
d. Typical weather patterns for a community. - ✔✔A
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 1
✔✔14. Frequency, magnitude and potential intensity, and probable spatial extent are all
factors to consider when developing a(n):
a. Hazard profile.
b. Impact estimate.
c. Jurisdiction analysis.
d. Resource assessment. - ✔✔A
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 1
,✔✔15. Mutual aid and assistance agreements may provide ________ when invoked.
a. Change of command
b. Unity of command
c. Policy decisions
d. Equipment such as bulldozers or dump trucks - ✔✔D
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 2
✔✔16. Standby contracts establish the price as that which is/was in effect:
a. on the day before the emergency event.
b. on the day of the emergency event.
c. on the day after an emergency event.
d. do not establish price for the resources provided during an emergency. - ✔✔A
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 2
✔✔17. Which one of the following objectives is considered short-term?
a. The Chamber of Commerce will work with local businesses to implement the
economic revitalization strategies developed and approved by the community leaders.
b. City departments will work with the whole community to develop permanent housing
solutions for people and their families who were left homeless by the wildland fires.
c. City departments will work with local businesses to establish temporary or interim
infrastructure to support business reopenings.
d. The public health department will work with local hospitals to rebuild
disrupted/damaged health care facilities damaged by the earthquake to current medical
standards. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 3
✔✔18. Which one of the following exercise objectives follows the SMART format?
a. Deliver an approved points of distribution delivery route to the designated incident
commander.
b. Demonstrate the ability to assemble, supply, and support a complete flash flood
response team to pre-position for imminent response.
c. Emergency management staff will initiate and complete a call-back of EOC personnel
within 30 minutes of notification as described in the Emergency Operations Plan.
d. Finance staff will identify and begin working on short-term financial objectives. - ✔✔C
Sample Certification Exam Questions - Planning, Part 3
✔✔19. Which section of the emergency operations plan addresses resource needs and
availability?
a. Administration, Finance and Logistics.
b. Direction, Control, and Coordination.
c. Organization and Assignment of Responsibilities.
d. Situation and Assumptions. - ✔✔A
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation of Common Plan Requirements
, ✔✔20. Specifying safety procedures in an incident plan is an example of which one of
the following risk control measures?
a. Eliminating the hazardous operation.
b. Engineering controls.
c. Administrative controls.
d. Using personal protective equipment. - ✔✔C
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation of Common Plan Requirements
✔✔21. Which of the following is a prevention technique or activity?
a. Conducting background investigations on personnel who have access to critical
infrastructure.
b. Developing plans and making other preparations to save lives and safeguard the
environment.
c. Identifying shelter locations and needed supplies.
d. Multi-objective planning by the whole community for local floodway development. -
✔✔A
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation, Part 2
✔✔22. A sound prevention strategy is based on which of the following factors?
a. Installing and maintaining warning systems.
b. Strengthening zoning and building codes.
c. Training on emergency protective measures.
d. Updating immunization and quarantine policies. - ✔✔D
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation, Part 2
✔✔23. Which of the following defines mitigation?
a. Activities designed for a community to adapt to changing conditions and to withstand
and rapidly recover from disruption due to emergencies.
b. Activities designed to ensure the entity or jurisdiction is optimally prepared to prevent
an imminent terrorist attack.
c. Activities that safeguard the jurisdiction against all types of threats and hazards,
including acts of terrorism as well as manmade or natural disasters.
d. Activities to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to persons or property, or to lessen the
actual or potential effects of an incident. - ✔✔D
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation, Part 3
✔✔24. The emergency manager plays a unique role in helping to mitigate the
community's threats and hazards. Which of the following is a key responsibility?
a. Enforce zoning and building codes.
b. Increase awareness about the public's role in mitigation.
c. Obtain insurance to reduce risk.
d. Uphold Federal regulations intended to reduce hazard losses and provide resources
to achieve these goals. - ✔✔B
Sample Exam Questions - Implementation, Part 3
