ICS 100 PRACTICE TEST UPDATED EXAM QUESTIONS
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✔✔Assistant - ✔✔Title for subordinates of the Command Staff positions. The title
indicates a level of technical capability, qualifications, and responsibility subordinate to
the primary positions. Assistants may also be assigned to Unit Leaders.
✔✔Assisting Agency - ✔✔An agency or organization providing personnel, services, or
other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident management.
✔✔Available Resource - ✔✔Resource assigned to an incident, checked in, and
available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
✔✔Badging - ✔✔The assignment of physical incident-specific credentials to establish
legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
✔✔Branch - ✔✔The organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility
for major aspects of incident operations. A Branch is organizationally situated between
the Section Chief and the Division or Group in the Operations Section, and between the
Section and Units in the Logistics Section. Branches are identified by the use of Roman
numerals or by functional area.
✔✔Cache - ✔✔A predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and/or supplies
stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
✔✔Camp - ✔✔A geographical site, within the general incident area, separate from the
Incident Base, equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food, water, and sanitary
services to incident personnel.
✔✔Certifying Personnel - ✔✔The process of authoritatively attesting that individuals
meet professional standards for the training, experience, and performance required for
key incident management functions.
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔The orderly line of authority within the ranks of the incident
management organization.
✔✔Check-In - ✔✔The process through which resources first report to an incident. All
responders, regardless of agency affiliation, must report in to receive an assignment in
accordance with the procedures established by the Incident Commander.
✔✔Chief - ✔✔The Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for
management of functional Sections: Operations, Planning, Logistics,
Finance/Administration, and Intelligence/Investigations (if established as a separate
Section).
,✔✔Command - ✔✔The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit
statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.
✔✔Command Staff - ✔✔The staff who report directly to the Incident Commander,
including the Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Liaison Officer, and other
positions as required. They may have an assistant or assistants, as needed.
✔✔Common Operating Picture - ✔✔An overview of an incident by all relevant parties
that provides incident information enabling the Incident Commander/Unified Command
and any supporting agencies and organizations to make effective, consistent, and timely
decisions.
✔✔Common Terminology - ✔✔Normally used words and phrases—avoiding the use of
different words/phrases for same concepts—to ensure consistency and to allow diverse
incident management and support organizations to work together across a wide variety
of incident management functions and hazard scenarios.
✔✔Communications - ✔✔The process of transmission of information through verbal,
written, or symbolic means.
✔✔Communications/Dispatch Center - ✔✔An agency or interagency dispatcher center,
911 call center, emergency control or command dispatch center, or any naming
convention given to the facility and staff that handles emergency calls from the public
and communication with emergency management/response personnel. The center can
serve as a primary coordination and support element of the multiagency coordination
system (MACS) for an incident until other elements of the MACS are formally
established.
✔✔Complex - ✔✔Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area
and assigned to a single Incident Commander or to Unified Command.
✔✔Cooperating Agency - ✔✔An agency supplying assistance other than direct
operational or support functions or resources to the incident management effort.
✔✔Coordinate - ✔✔To advance systematically an analysis and exchange of information
among principals who have or may have a need to know certain information to carry out
specific incident management responsibilities.
✔✔Corrective Actions - ✔✔The implementation of procedures that are based on
lessons learned from actual incidents or from training and exercises.
✔✔Credentialing - ✔✔The authentication and verification of the certification and identity
of designated incident managers and emergency responders.
, ✔✔Delegation of Authority - ✔✔A statement provided to the Incident Commander by
the agency executive delegating authority and assigning responsibility. The delegation
of authority can include objectives, priorities, expectations, constraints, and other
considerations or guidelines, as needed. Many agencies require written delegation of
authority to be given to the Incident Commander prior to assuming command on larger
incidents. Also known as Letter of Expectation.
✔✔Demobilization - ✔✔The orderly, safe, and efficient return of an incident resource to
its original location and status.
✔✔Deputy - ✔✔A fully qualified individual who, in the absence of a superior, could be
delegated the authority to manage a functional operation or perform a specific task. In
some cases, a Deputy could act as relief for a superior and therefore must be fully
qualified in the position. Deputies can be assigned to the Incident Commander, General
Staff, and Branch Directors.
✔✔Director - ✔✔The Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for
supervision of a Branch.
✔✔Dispatch - ✔✔The ordered movement of a resource or resources to an assigned
operational mission, or an administrative move from one location to another.
✔✔Division - ✔✔The organizational level having responsibility for operations within a
defined geographic area. Divisions are established when the number of resources
exceeds the manageable span of control of the Section Chief. See Group.
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔Any incident, whether natural or manmade, that requires
responsive action to protect life or property. Under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act, an emergency means any occasion or instance for
which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to
supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property
and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part
of the United States.
✔✔Emergency Management/Response Personnel - ✔✔Includes Federal, State,
territorial, tribal, substate regional, and local governments, private-sector organizations,
critical infrastructure owners and operators, nongovernmental organizations, and all
other organizations and individuals who assume an emergency management role. Also
known as emergency responders.
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) - ✔✔The physical location at which the
coordination of information and resources to support incident management (on-scene
operations) activities normally takes place. An EOC may be a temporary facility or may
be located in a more central or permanently established facility, perhaps at a higher
level of organization within a jurisdiction. EOCs may be organized by major functional
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✔✔Assistant - ✔✔Title for subordinates of the Command Staff positions. The title
indicates a level of technical capability, qualifications, and responsibility subordinate to
the primary positions. Assistants may also be assigned to Unit Leaders.
✔✔Assisting Agency - ✔✔An agency or organization providing personnel, services, or
other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident management.
✔✔Available Resource - ✔✔Resource assigned to an incident, checked in, and
available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
✔✔Badging - ✔✔The assignment of physical incident-specific credentials to establish
legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
✔✔Branch - ✔✔The organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility
for major aspects of incident operations. A Branch is organizationally situated between
the Section Chief and the Division or Group in the Operations Section, and between the
Section and Units in the Logistics Section. Branches are identified by the use of Roman
numerals or by functional area.
✔✔Cache - ✔✔A predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and/or supplies
stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
✔✔Camp - ✔✔A geographical site, within the general incident area, separate from the
Incident Base, equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food, water, and sanitary
services to incident personnel.
✔✔Certifying Personnel - ✔✔The process of authoritatively attesting that individuals
meet professional standards for the training, experience, and performance required for
key incident management functions.
✔✔Chain of Command - ✔✔The orderly line of authority within the ranks of the incident
management organization.
✔✔Check-In - ✔✔The process through which resources first report to an incident. All
responders, regardless of agency affiliation, must report in to receive an assignment in
accordance with the procedures established by the Incident Commander.
✔✔Chief - ✔✔The Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for
management of functional Sections: Operations, Planning, Logistics,
Finance/Administration, and Intelligence/Investigations (if established as a separate
Section).
,✔✔Command - ✔✔The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit
statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.
✔✔Command Staff - ✔✔The staff who report directly to the Incident Commander,
including the Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Liaison Officer, and other
positions as required. They may have an assistant or assistants, as needed.
✔✔Common Operating Picture - ✔✔An overview of an incident by all relevant parties
that provides incident information enabling the Incident Commander/Unified Command
and any supporting agencies and organizations to make effective, consistent, and timely
decisions.
✔✔Common Terminology - ✔✔Normally used words and phrases—avoiding the use of
different words/phrases for same concepts—to ensure consistency and to allow diverse
incident management and support organizations to work together across a wide variety
of incident management functions and hazard scenarios.
✔✔Communications - ✔✔The process of transmission of information through verbal,
written, or symbolic means.
✔✔Communications/Dispatch Center - ✔✔An agency or interagency dispatcher center,
911 call center, emergency control or command dispatch center, or any naming
convention given to the facility and staff that handles emergency calls from the public
and communication with emergency management/response personnel. The center can
serve as a primary coordination and support element of the multiagency coordination
system (MACS) for an incident until other elements of the MACS are formally
established.
✔✔Complex - ✔✔Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area
and assigned to a single Incident Commander or to Unified Command.
✔✔Cooperating Agency - ✔✔An agency supplying assistance other than direct
operational or support functions or resources to the incident management effort.
✔✔Coordinate - ✔✔To advance systematically an analysis and exchange of information
among principals who have or may have a need to know certain information to carry out
specific incident management responsibilities.
✔✔Corrective Actions - ✔✔The implementation of procedures that are based on
lessons learned from actual incidents or from training and exercises.
✔✔Credentialing - ✔✔The authentication and verification of the certification and identity
of designated incident managers and emergency responders.
, ✔✔Delegation of Authority - ✔✔A statement provided to the Incident Commander by
the agency executive delegating authority and assigning responsibility. The delegation
of authority can include objectives, priorities, expectations, constraints, and other
considerations or guidelines, as needed. Many agencies require written delegation of
authority to be given to the Incident Commander prior to assuming command on larger
incidents. Also known as Letter of Expectation.
✔✔Demobilization - ✔✔The orderly, safe, and efficient return of an incident resource to
its original location and status.
✔✔Deputy - ✔✔A fully qualified individual who, in the absence of a superior, could be
delegated the authority to manage a functional operation or perform a specific task. In
some cases, a Deputy could act as relief for a superior and therefore must be fully
qualified in the position. Deputies can be assigned to the Incident Commander, General
Staff, and Branch Directors.
✔✔Director - ✔✔The Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for
supervision of a Branch.
✔✔Dispatch - ✔✔The ordered movement of a resource or resources to an assigned
operational mission, or an administrative move from one location to another.
✔✔Division - ✔✔The organizational level having responsibility for operations within a
defined geographic area. Divisions are established when the number of resources
exceeds the manageable span of control of the Section Chief. See Group.
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔Any incident, whether natural or manmade, that requires
responsive action to protect life or property. Under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief
and Emergency Assistance Act, an emergency means any occasion or instance for
which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to
supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property
and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part
of the United States.
✔✔Emergency Management/Response Personnel - ✔✔Includes Federal, State,
territorial, tribal, substate regional, and local governments, private-sector organizations,
critical infrastructure owners and operators, nongovernmental organizations, and all
other organizations and individuals who assume an emergency management role. Also
known as emergency responders.
✔✔Emergency Operations Center (EOC) - ✔✔The physical location at which the
coordination of information and resources to support incident management (on-scene
operations) activities normally takes place. An EOC may be a temporary facility or may
be located in a more central or permanently established facility, perhaps at a higher
level of organization within a jurisdiction. EOCs may be organized by major functional
