ICS 100 COMPREHENSIVE UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔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?
✔✔Unified Command - ✔✔When partners representing multiple jurisdictions or
agencies work together to establish the incident objectives, what type of Command is
being used?
✔✔Command - ✔✔Directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory,
regulatory, or delegated authority.
✔✔Logistics Section Chief - ✔✔Which General Staff member is responsible for
ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have communications, medical
support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational objective?
✔✔1. Organizational Functions: Major functions and units with incident management
responsibilities are named and defined. They remain standard and consistent.
2. Resource Descriptions: Major resources including personnel, equipment, teams, and
facilities are given common names and are "typed" with respect to their capabilities.
3. Incident Facilities: Common terminology is used to designate the facilities in the
vicinity of the incident area. - ✔✔Within the National Incident Management System
Characteristics, the concept of common terminology covers all of the following:
✔✔Operations Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area establishes tactics and
directs all operational resources to reach the incident objectives?
✔✔Identify strategies, tactics, and actions to meet the objectives. - ✔✔Incident
Commander/Unified Commander establishes Incident Objectives that include:
✔✔3 Major Components of NIMS - ✔✔1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination - including the Incident Command System
3. Communications and Information Management
✔✔ Planning Section Chief - ✔✔Which General Staff member prepares Incident Action
Plans, manages information, and maintains situational awareness for the incident?
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔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?
✔✔Unified Command - ✔✔When partners representing multiple jurisdictions or
agencies work together to establish the incident objectives, what type of Command is
being used?
✔✔Command - ✔✔Directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory,
regulatory, or delegated authority.
✔✔Logistics Section Chief - ✔✔Which General Staff member is responsible for
ensuring that assigned incident personnel are fed and have communications, medical
support, and transportation as needed to meet the operational objective?
✔✔1. Organizational Functions: Major functions and units with incident management
responsibilities are named and defined. They remain standard and consistent.
2. Resource Descriptions: Major resources including personnel, equipment, teams, and
facilities are given common names and are "typed" with respect to their capabilities.
3. Incident Facilities: Common terminology is used to designate the facilities in the
vicinity of the incident area. - ✔✔Within the National Incident Management System
Characteristics, the concept of common terminology covers all of the following:
✔✔Operations Functional Area - ✔✔Which ICS functional area establishes tactics and
directs all operational resources to reach the incident objectives?
✔✔Identify strategies, tactics, and actions to meet the objectives. - ✔✔Incident
Commander/Unified Commander establishes Incident Objectives that include:
✔✔3 Major Components of NIMS - ✔✔1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination - including the Incident Command System
3. Communications and Information Management
✔✔ Planning Section Chief - ✔✔Which General Staff member prepares Incident Action
Plans, manages information, and maintains situational awareness for the incident?
