ICS 100 UPDATD COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Finance/Administration Section Major Activities (5) - ✔✔1. Contract negotiation and
monitoring
2. Timekeeping
3. Cost analysis
4. Compensation for injury or damage to property
5. Documentation for reimbursement (e.g., under mutual aid agreements and
assistance agreements)
✔✔True - ✔✔To avoid overburdening the incident command, resources should not self-
dispatch (spontaneously deploy).
✔✔Information and Intelligence Management - ✔✔Which NIMS Management
Characteristic may include gathering, analyzing, and assessing weather service data
from technical specialists?
✔✔Manageable Span of Control - ✔✔The number of individuals or resources a
supervisor can manage effectively during an incident. Optimal is 1 supervisor to 5
subordinates. # may vary depending on type of incident, nature of the task, hazards,
safety and distances between personnel and resources.
✔✔Comprehensive Resource Management activities (4) - ✔✔1. Resource Identification
and Typing
2. Qualification, Certification and Credentialing Personnel
3. Planning for Resources
4. Acquiring, Storing and Inventorying Resources
✔✔Integrated Communications - ✔✔Which NIMS Management Characteristic is
necessary for achieving situational awareness and facilitating information sharing?
✔✔Planning Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area tracks resources, collects
and analyzes information, and maintains documentation?
✔✔Common Terminology - ✔✔To ensure efficient, clear, communication, the National
Incident Management System Characteristics recommend the use of:
✔✔Incident Objectives - ✔✔In a Unified Command, members representing multiple
jurisdictions and agencies work together to establish:
✔✔Logistics Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area arranges for resources
and services to support achievement of the incident objectives?
, ✔✔Operations Section - ✔✔Which Section organizes, assigns, and supervises tactical
response resources?
✔✔Finance/Administration Functional Area - ✔✔Monitors costs related to the incident.
Provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Check-in, Incident Action Planning, Personal Responsibility, and
Resource Tracking are all necessary to ensure:
✔✔Incident Action Plan (IAP) - ✔✔Guides effective incident management activities. A
concise means of capturing and communicating overall priorities, objectives, strategies,
tactics, and assignments in the context of both operational and support activities. should
focus on addressing the needs of future timeframes (called operational periods).
✔✔Effective Incident Action Plan (7) - ✔✔1. Cover a specified timeframe
2. Be proactive
3. Specify the incident objectives
4. State the activities to be completed
5. Assign responsibilities
6. Identify needed resources
7. Specify communication protocols
✔✔Written IAP - ✔✔FEMA has developed a series of ICS Forms to use in hazardous
materials incidents.
✔✔Incident Commander - ✔✔Which position is always staffed in ICS applications?
✔✔Dispatch/ Deployment - ✔✔Which NIMS Management Characteristic refers to
personnel requested through appropriate authorities and established resource
management systems?
✔✔Incident Command System Benefits (5) - ✔✔1. Clarifies chain of command and
supervision responsibilities to improve accountability.
2. Leverages interoperable communications systems and plain language to improve
communications.
3. Provides an orderly, systematic planning process.
4. Implements a common, flexible, predesigned management structure.
5. Fosters cooperation between diverse disciplines and agencies.
✔✔Comprehensive Resource Management - ✔✔Acquiring, Storing, and Inventorying
Resources are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Finance/Administration Section Major Activities (5) - ✔✔1. Contract negotiation and
monitoring
2. Timekeeping
3. Cost analysis
4. Compensation for injury or damage to property
5. Documentation for reimbursement (e.g., under mutual aid agreements and
assistance agreements)
✔✔True - ✔✔To avoid overburdening the incident command, resources should not self-
dispatch (spontaneously deploy).
✔✔Information and Intelligence Management - ✔✔Which NIMS Management
Characteristic may include gathering, analyzing, and assessing weather service data
from technical specialists?
✔✔Manageable Span of Control - ✔✔The number of individuals or resources a
supervisor can manage effectively during an incident. Optimal is 1 supervisor to 5
subordinates. # may vary depending on type of incident, nature of the task, hazards,
safety and distances between personnel and resources.
✔✔Comprehensive Resource Management activities (4) - ✔✔1. Resource Identification
and Typing
2. Qualification, Certification and Credentialing Personnel
3. Planning for Resources
4. Acquiring, Storing and Inventorying Resources
✔✔Integrated Communications - ✔✔Which NIMS Management Characteristic is
necessary for achieving situational awareness and facilitating information sharing?
✔✔Planning Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area tracks resources, collects
and analyzes information, and maintains documentation?
✔✔Common Terminology - ✔✔To ensure efficient, clear, communication, the National
Incident Management System Characteristics recommend the use of:
✔✔Incident Objectives - ✔✔In a Unified Command, members representing multiple
jurisdictions and agencies work together to establish:
✔✔Logistics Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area arranges for resources
and services to support achievement of the incident objectives?
, ✔✔Operations Section - ✔✔Which Section organizes, assigns, and supervises tactical
response resources?
✔✔Finance/Administration Functional Area - ✔✔Monitors costs related to the incident.
Provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses.
✔✔Accountability - ✔✔Check-in, Incident Action Planning, Personal Responsibility, and
Resource Tracking are all necessary to ensure:
✔✔Incident Action Plan (IAP) - ✔✔Guides effective incident management activities. A
concise means of capturing and communicating overall priorities, objectives, strategies,
tactics, and assignments in the context of both operational and support activities. should
focus on addressing the needs of future timeframes (called operational periods).
✔✔Effective Incident Action Plan (7) - ✔✔1. Cover a specified timeframe
2. Be proactive
3. Specify the incident objectives
4. State the activities to be completed
5. Assign responsibilities
6. Identify needed resources
7. Specify communication protocols
✔✔Written IAP - ✔✔FEMA has developed a series of ICS Forms to use in hazardous
materials incidents.
✔✔Incident Commander - ✔✔Which position is always staffed in ICS applications?
✔✔Dispatch/ Deployment - ✔✔Which NIMS Management Characteristic refers to
personnel requested through appropriate authorities and established resource
management systems?
✔✔Incident Command System Benefits (5) - ✔✔1. Clarifies chain of command and
supervision responsibilities to improve accountability.
2. Leverages interoperable communications systems and plain language to improve
communications.
3. Provides an orderly, systematic planning process.
4. Implements a common, flexible, predesigned management structure.
5. Fosters cooperation between diverse disciplines and agencies.
✔✔Comprehensive Resource Management - ✔✔Acquiring, Storing, and Inventorying
Resources are part of which NIMS Management Characteristic?
