NIMS
EOC
Mutual Aid
ICS
Resource Management
100

When was NIMS initiated?

2004

100

How many EOC activation levels are there?

Normal Operations/ Steady State, Enhanced Steady-State/ Partial Activation, Full Activation

100

Mutual aid agreements does what?

Establish the legal basis for two or more entities to share resources.

100

Who is responsible for the overall management of the incident?

Incident Commander

100

What is a “Type”?

A resource’s level of minimum capability to perform its function

200

What year was the revised NIMS?

2008

200

When was the structure of EOC’s introduced in the NIMS document?

2017

200

Can mutual aid services be unpaid?

Yes

200

What consists of the Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration

Section Chiefs?

General Staff

200

What is self-dispatching or self-deploying?

Responders coming to an incident area without being requested.

300

What organizational incident management efforts was NIMS modeled after?

FIRESCOPE

300

What are three common ways of organizing EOC teams?

ICS or ICS like structure, Incident Support Model, Departmental Structure

300

What is another name for a Mutual Aid Agreement?

Mutual Aid Compact

300

What improves unity of effort in multijurisdictional or multiagency incident?

Unified Command

300

Resource management preparedness involves what?  

Identifying and typing resources; qualifying, certifying, and credentialing personnel; planning for resources; and acquiring, storing, and inventorying resources.

400

What does double I NIMS stand for?

National Interagency Incident Management System

(NIIMS)

400

What type of EOC Organization puts the EOC director in direct contact with those doing situational awareness/information management and streamlines resource sourcing, ordering, and tracking?

Incident Support Model (ISM) Structure

400

What is EMAC?

A congressionally ratified mutual aid compact that defines a non-Federal, state-to-state system for sharing resources across state lines during an emergency or disaster.

400

What section develops and implements strategies and tactics to achieve incident objectives?

Operations Section

400

Does NQS use a training base or performance base approach?

Performance Base Approach

500

Incident management priorities include what?

Saving lives, stabilizing the incident, and protecting

property and the environment.

500

What is the NIMS management characteristic of that indicates that leaders are responsible for the functions of subordinate positions that are not staffed?

Modular Organization

500

Managers of an organization should consider what before responding to a request for mutual aid?

Whether the department could still meet its community’s needs after deploying requested equipment and personnel to another jurisdiction.

500

What is a statement that the authorizes jurisdiction/organization officials to make such delegations to the Incident Commander?

Delegation of Authority

500

The resource management process during an incident includes what?  

Standard methods to identify, order, mobilize, and track resources.

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