ICS 100 STUDY UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔Allows an incident commander to direct and control the
actions of all personnel under his supervision. Avoids confusion by requiring that orders
flow from supervisors.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔Report to only one ICS supervisor
Receive work assignments only from their ICS supervisor
✔✔A transfer of command may take place when? - ✔✔1. A more qualified incident
commander arrives and assumes command.
2. A jurisdiction or agency is legally required to take command.
3. The incident changes in complexity.
✔✔The transfer of command process always includes a transfer of command briefing,
which may be oral, written or a combination of both. - ✔✔
✔✔Management by Objectives - ✔✔Incident objectives are used to ensure that
everyone within ICS orgaization has a clear understanding of what needs to be
accomplished
✔✔Incident objectives are established based on the following priorities - ✔✔1. Life
safety
2. incident Stabilization
3. Property Preservation
✔✔Reliance on an Incident Action Plan - ✔✔1. Specifies the incident objective
2. States the activities to be completed
3. Covers a specified timeframe, called an operation period.
4. may be oral or written
✔✔Hazardous materials incident "REQUIRED" a written Reliance Action Plan. - ✔✔
✔✔Incident Action Plans specify the incident activities, assign reponsibilities, identify
needed resources and specify communications _______. - ✔✔protocols
✔✔What does Span of Control pertains to? - ✔✔The number of individuals or resources
that one supervisor can manage effetively during an incident
✔✔Effective span of control on incidents may vary from three to seven and a rations to
one supervisor _____ subordiantes is recommended. - ✔✔5
✔✔In ICS "Resources" refers to? - ✔✔Personnel, supplies, and equipment.
, During the incident is critical to know what resources are needed and available, where
deployed resources are located.
✔✔Resource Management includes process for? - ✔✔1. Identifying resource
requirements
2. Ordering and acquiring resources
3. Mobilizing and dispatching resources
4. Tracking and reporting on resources status
5. Recovering an demobilizing resources
It also includes processes for reimbursing for resources and maintaining a resource
inventory.
✔✔Predesignated Incident Locations and Facilities - ✔✔The Incident Command Post or
ICP is the location from which the incident commander oversees all incident operations.
The post may be an office or resident post.
✔✔The goal of an Incident Command Post is to? - ✔✔Get you away from your day-to-
day work setting so you will not be distracted from your incident assignments.
✔✔There should only be _____ Incident Command Post. It may change locations. -
✔✔one
✔✔Stagging area should be located close enough to the incident for timely reponse but
far enough way to be out of the immediate ______ zone. - ✔✔impact
✔✔Helibase - ✔✔is the location from which helicopter-centered air operations are
conducted.
✔✔Helisports - ✔✔are more temporary locations at the incident, where helicopters can
safely land and take off.
✔✔Integrated Communications
Prior to an incident, reponse partners should work together to ensure that
communications equipment, procedures and systems can operate together during a
response. This is known as ________ - ✔✔Interoperability
✔✔Intelligence includes operational information that may come from a variety of
different sources such as: - ✔✔1. Risk assessments
2. Threats involving potential for violence
3. Surveillane of disease outbreak
4. Weather forecasts
5. Structural plans and vulnerabilities
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔Allows an incident commander to direct and control the
actions of all personnel under his supervision. Avoids confusion by requiring that orders
flow from supervisors.
✔✔Unity of Command - ✔✔Report to only one ICS supervisor
Receive work assignments only from their ICS supervisor
✔✔A transfer of command may take place when? - ✔✔1. A more qualified incident
commander arrives and assumes command.
2. A jurisdiction or agency is legally required to take command.
3. The incident changes in complexity.
✔✔The transfer of command process always includes a transfer of command briefing,
which may be oral, written or a combination of both. - ✔✔
✔✔Management by Objectives - ✔✔Incident objectives are used to ensure that
everyone within ICS orgaization has a clear understanding of what needs to be
accomplished
✔✔Incident objectives are established based on the following priorities - ✔✔1. Life
safety
2. incident Stabilization
3. Property Preservation
✔✔Reliance on an Incident Action Plan - ✔✔1. Specifies the incident objective
2. States the activities to be completed
3. Covers a specified timeframe, called an operation period.
4. may be oral or written
✔✔Hazardous materials incident "REQUIRED" a written Reliance Action Plan. - ✔✔
✔✔Incident Action Plans specify the incident activities, assign reponsibilities, identify
needed resources and specify communications _______. - ✔✔protocols
✔✔What does Span of Control pertains to? - ✔✔The number of individuals or resources
that one supervisor can manage effetively during an incident
✔✔Effective span of control on incidents may vary from three to seven and a rations to
one supervisor _____ subordiantes is recommended. - ✔✔5
✔✔In ICS "Resources" refers to? - ✔✔Personnel, supplies, and equipment.
, During the incident is critical to know what resources are needed and available, where
deployed resources are located.
✔✔Resource Management includes process for? - ✔✔1. Identifying resource
requirements
2. Ordering and acquiring resources
3. Mobilizing and dispatching resources
4. Tracking and reporting on resources status
5. Recovering an demobilizing resources
It also includes processes for reimbursing for resources and maintaining a resource
inventory.
✔✔Predesignated Incident Locations and Facilities - ✔✔The Incident Command Post or
ICP is the location from which the incident commander oversees all incident operations.
The post may be an office or resident post.
✔✔The goal of an Incident Command Post is to? - ✔✔Get you away from your day-to-
day work setting so you will not be distracted from your incident assignments.
✔✔There should only be _____ Incident Command Post. It may change locations. -
✔✔one
✔✔Stagging area should be located close enough to the incident for timely reponse but
far enough way to be out of the immediate ______ zone. - ✔✔impact
✔✔Helibase - ✔✔is the location from which helicopter-centered air operations are
conducted.
✔✔Helisports - ✔✔are more temporary locations at the incident, where helicopters can
safely land and take off.
✔✔Integrated Communications
Prior to an incident, reponse partners should work together to ensure that
communications equipment, procedures and systems can operate together during a
response. This is known as ________ - ✔✔Interoperability
✔✔Intelligence includes operational information that may come from a variety of
different sources such as: - ✔✔1. Risk assessments
2. Threats involving potential for violence
3. Surveillane of disease outbreak
4. Weather forecasts
5. Structural plans and vulnerabilities
