ICS 100/200
This component of NIMS includes the Incident Command System.
What is Command and Coordination?
This is the term for an orderly line of authority and reporting relationships within the ranks of an organization.
What is Chain of Command?
This document is an agency's guideline that influences the way incidents are managed.
What are the Standard Operating Procedures?n
Correctly describes NIMS?
What is a systematic approach to Incident Management?
" A secure and reliant nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk."
What is the National Preparedness Goal?
Along with the Incident Commander, the PIO, the Safety Officer, and the Liaison Officer are collectively known as
What is the Command Staff?
This Incident Management role provides strategic direction and delegates the authority needed to accomplish the incident objectives.
What are Agency Executives/Senior Officials?
These are the components of NIMS.
What is:
Resource Management
Command and Coordination
Communication and Information Management?
The three NIMS guiding principles.
What are Planning, Response, and Recovery?
This goal sets the vision for preparedness nationwide and identifies the core capabilities necessary to achieve that vision across five mission areas: Prevention, Protection, Response, Mitigation, and Recovery.
What are Mission Areas and Core Capabilities?
This is described under the Management Characteristic of Accountability, within NIMS.
What is the CheckIn/CheckOut of Incident personnel?
Modular expansion at an incident is based on _________.
What is matching the organization's structure to the specific tasks required to manage the incident?
Before establishing strategies or executing tactics, you need to develop this.
What are the Incident Objectives?
This is the NIMS Management Characteristic that helps eliminate confusion caused by conflicting instructions.
What is Chain of Command and Unity of Command?
There are three benefits to implementing the National Response Framework structures and procedures.
What is
-Scaled Response
-Level of appropriate coordination
-Delivering specific resources?
To ensure efficient, clear communication, the National Incident Management System Characteristics recommend the use of:
What is Standard or Common terminology?
Strategies establish the general plan or direction for accomplishing the incident objectives, while ______ specify how the strategies will be executed.
What are tactics?
This occurs as a direct or indirect result of an initial incident.
What is a cascading event or incident?
The basic premise of the NIMS and National Response Framework (NRF).
Incidents should be managed at the lowest jurisdictional level possible.
The priority for developing protocols that promote situational awareness.
What is providing the right information at the right time?
This General Staff person is responsible for the Operational Period Brief.
Who is the Planning Section Chief?
During the Planning Meeting, this form or document sometimes reveals that a proposed tactic is too hazardous to attempt, and another tactic should be developed.
What is ICS Form 215A, Incident Action Plan Safety Analysis?
This type of structure may be established when two or more individual incidents, located in the same general area, are assigned to a single IC or UC.
What is an incident complex?
Incident managers begin planning for the demobilization process.
What is as soon as possible to facilitate accountability of the resources?
Exercises should:
Include multidisciplinary, multijurisdictional incidents.
Include participation of private-sector and nongovernmental organizations.
Cover aspects of preparedness plans, including activating mutual aid and assistance agreements.
And ____________________________________________.
What is, contains a mechanism for incorporating corrective actions?