NIMS Exam Study Guide Questions and
Answers
HSPD-5 required the secretary of Homeland Security to establish a mechanism for ensuring the ongoing
management and maintenance of NIMS. the secretary established the national integration center to
perform all of the following functions EXCEPT - Answer-: inventorying and tracking all national resources
and assets available for deployment in incidents managed using NIMS
Select the NIMS term that is defined as the architecture to support coordination for incident
prioritization, critical resource allocation, communications systems integration, and information
coordination - Answer-Multiagency Coordination System
the national response framework presents the guiding principles that - Answer-:Provide the structure
and mechanisms to ensure effective federal support of state, tribal, and local related activites
Homeland security presidential directive 5 requires all federal departments and agencies to: - Answer-
Make adoption of NIMS by state, tribal, and local organizations a condition for federal preparedness
assistance (through grants, contracts, and other activites)
unified command - Answer-assigns a single incident commander to assume unity of command and
make decisions for all jurisdictions
Answers
HSPD-5 required the secretary of Homeland Security to establish a mechanism for ensuring the ongoing
management and maintenance of NIMS. the secretary established the national integration center to
perform all of the following functions EXCEPT - Answer-: inventorying and tracking all national resources
and assets available for deployment in incidents managed using NIMS
Select the NIMS term that is defined as the architecture to support coordination for incident
prioritization, critical resource allocation, communications systems integration, and information
coordination - Answer-Multiagency Coordination System
the national response framework presents the guiding principles that - Answer-:Provide the structure
and mechanisms to ensure effective federal support of state, tribal, and local related activites
Homeland security presidential directive 5 requires all federal departments and agencies to: - Answer-
Make adoption of NIMS by state, tribal, and local organizations a condition for federal preparedness
assistance (through grants, contracts, and other activites)
unified command - Answer-assigns a single incident commander to assume unity of command and
make decisions for all jurisdictions
