Blue Card Function #4: Strategy and
Incident Action Planning (IAP) Exam
Questions and Answers
The IC must always match what 3 standards? - Correct
Answers ✅Conditions
Actions
Outcome
What are and incidents standard conditions? - Correct
Answers ✅The current critical factors
What is the sequence of the strategic decision making
model? - Correct Answers ✅Identify the critical factors
Base all actions on evaluating those factors
What does the initial Incident Commander base the strategy
on? - Correct Answers ✅Are there savable customers or
property
Can they get inside to conduct operations
What question about a fire should the initial Incident
Commander ask themselves? - Correct Answers ✅What is
actually on fire
What always comes first in the strategic decision making
model? - Correct Answers ✅Evaluate the incidents critical
factors
, Blue Card Function #4: Strategy and
Incident Action Planning (IAP) Exam
Questions and Answers
What comes first, the strategy or the IAP - Correct Answers
✅Strategy
What is the #1 safety system that protects firefighters in a
hazard zone? - Correct Answers ✅Operate in the correct
strategy
Describe the hot zone. - Correct Answers ✅An IDLH
environment due to heat, lack of oxygen, and smoke
Describe the warm zone. - Correct Answers ✅An area just
outside the hot zone, that has the potential to become a hot
zone.
Describe the cold zone. - Correct Answers ✅An area just
outside the warm zone with little or no chance of becoming
an IDLH.
What are the offensive tactical objectives? - Correct
Answers ✅Fire control
Primary/Secondary all clear
Support Work
Salvage
Incident Action Planning (IAP) Exam
Questions and Answers
The IC must always match what 3 standards? - Correct
Answers ✅Conditions
Actions
Outcome
What are and incidents standard conditions? - Correct
Answers ✅The current critical factors
What is the sequence of the strategic decision making
model? - Correct Answers ✅Identify the critical factors
Base all actions on evaluating those factors
What does the initial Incident Commander base the strategy
on? - Correct Answers ✅Are there savable customers or
property
Can they get inside to conduct operations
What question about a fire should the initial Incident
Commander ask themselves? - Correct Answers ✅What is
actually on fire
What always comes first in the strategic decision making
model? - Correct Answers ✅Evaluate the incidents critical
factors
, Blue Card Function #4: Strategy and
Incident Action Planning (IAP) Exam
Questions and Answers
What comes first, the strategy or the IAP - Correct Answers
✅Strategy
What is the #1 safety system that protects firefighters in a
hazard zone? - Correct Answers ✅Operate in the correct
strategy
Describe the hot zone. - Correct Answers ✅An IDLH
environment due to heat, lack of oxygen, and smoke
Describe the warm zone. - Correct Answers ✅An area just
outside the hot zone, that has the potential to become a hot
zone.
Describe the cold zone. - Correct Answers ✅An area just
outside the warm zone with little or no chance of becoming
an IDLH.
What are the offensive tactical objectives? - Correct
Answers ✅Fire control
Primary/Secondary all clear
Support Work
Salvage
