The ability of public safety service and support providers to communicate with staff from other responding agencies and to exchange voice and/or data communications on demand and in real time.
What is Interoperability?
100
This is a central location for disseminating information to the media.
What is a Joint Information Center?
100
At this location, personnel identify needs, order resources, check in resources, assign resources, track resources, and demobilize resources.
What is the Incident Command Post?
100
This type of facility is fully equipped and has utilities working and can be used immediately.
What is a Hot facility?
100
Also known as TT&E, they are defined as measures taken to ensure a jurisdiction's EOC can support response and recovery throughout an incident period.
What is Tests, Training, and Exercises?
200
Having available backup communication systems is called this.
What is Redundancy?
200
These kind of files change frequently or are unique to the disaster/emergency.
What are dynamic files?
200
At this location, personnel receive requests, prioritize requests, locate/order resources, assign according to priorities, track resource use, and pay for resources.
What is the EOC?
200
An EOC needs this to ensure key personnel can get to the EOC in a timely manner.
What is Accessibility?
200
HSEEP stands for this.
What is Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program?
300
Geography, topography and high-rise buildings can affect this kind of communications.
What is Radio communications?
300
These are records that are essential to EOC operations and support.
What are Emergency Operating Records?
300
This entity is responsible for overall strategic MACRO management of an event.
What is the EOC?
300
Between 50 and 85 square feet.
What is the size needed per staff member.
300
Broadly, these are the two types of exercises.
What are Discussion-based and Operations-based exercises?
400
JIS is an acronym for this NIMS requirement to organize public information.
What is Joint Information System?
400
This is information that has been verified, prioritized, organized, analyzed, and made useful/actionable.
What is Intelligence?
400
A Level 1 activation is this type of activation of an EOC
What is Full?
400
This term is the culmination of all factors in the EOC design and location.
What is Survivability?
400
This type of exercises achieves a specific goal or builds a product.
What is a Workshop?
500
This is the best way to determine communication needs for each function and position.
What is a Communications Map?
500
These files are unchanging or change infrequently like policies and procedures, delegations of authority, and jurisdiction maps.
What are static files?
500
EOC activation levels should be linked to this document
The hazard analysis and policy in the Emergency Operations Plan
500
This type of EOC should be based on the same factors as the primary EOC.
What is an Alternate EOC?
500
This type of exercise tests a single operation or function.