ICS-100 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Area Command - ANSWER -An organization established to oversee the management
of multiple incidents that are each being handled by a separate Incident Command
System organization or to oversee the management of a very large or evolving incident
that has multiple incident management teams engaged. An agency
administrator/executive or other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the
incident usually makes the decision to establish an Area Command. An Area Command
is activated only if necessary, depending on the complexity of the incident and incident
management span-of-control considerations.
Assessment - ANSWER -The process of acquiring, collecting, processing, examining,
analyzing, evaluating, monitoring, and interpreting the data, information, evidence,
objects, measurements, images, sound, etc., whether tangible or intangible, to provide a
basis for decisionmaking.
Assigned Resource - ANSWER -Resource checked in and assigned work tasks on an
incident.
Assignment - ANSWER -Task given to a personnel resource to perform within a given
operational period that is based on operational objectives defined in the Incident Action
Plan.
Assistant - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -An agency or organization providing personnel, services,
or other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident management.
Available Resource - ANSWER -Resource assigned to an incident, checked in, and
available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
Badging - ANSWER -The assignment of physical incident-specific credentials to
establish legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
Branch - ANSWER -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.
,Agency - ANSWER -A division of government with a specific function offering a
particular kind of assistance. In the Incident Command System, agencies are defined
either as jurisdictional (having statutory responsibility for incident management) or as
assisting or cooperating (providing resources or other assistance).
Governmental organizations are most often in charge of an incident, though in certain
circumstances private sector organizations may be included. Additionally,
nongovernmental organizations may be included to provide support.
Agency Administrator or Executive - ANSWER -The official responsible for
administering policy for an agency or jurisdiction. An Agency Administrator/Executive (or
other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the incident) usually makes the
decision to establish an Area Command.
Agency Dispatch - ANSWER -The agency or jurisdictional facility from which resources
are sent to incidents.
Agency Representative - ANSWER -A person assigned by a primary, assisting, or
cooperating Federal, State, tribal, or local government agency or private organization
that has been delegated authority to make decisions affecting that agency's or
organization's participation in incident management activities following appropriate
consultation with the leadership of that agency.
All-Hazards - ANSWER -Describing an incident, natural or manmade, that warrants
action to protect life, property, environment, public health or safety, and minimize
disruptions of government, social, or economic activities.
Allocated Resource - ANSWER -Resource dispatched to an incident.
Cache - ANSWER -A predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and/or supplies
stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
Camp - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The orderly line of authority within the ranks of the
incident management organization.
Check-In - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit
statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.
Command Staff - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The process of transmission of information through
verbal, written, or symbolic means.
Communications/Dispatch Center - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area
and assigned to a single Incident Commander or to Unified Command.
Cooperating Agency - ANSWER -An agency supplying assistance other than direct
operational or support functions or resources to the incident management effort.
Coordinate - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The implementation of procedures that are based on
lessons learned from actual incidents or from training and exercises.
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Area Command - ANSWER -An organization established to oversee the management
of multiple incidents that are each being handled by a separate Incident Command
System organization or to oversee the management of a very large or evolving incident
that has multiple incident management teams engaged. An agency
administrator/executive or other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the
incident usually makes the decision to establish an Area Command. An Area Command
is activated only if necessary, depending on the complexity of the incident and incident
management span-of-control considerations.
Assessment - ANSWER -The process of acquiring, collecting, processing, examining,
analyzing, evaluating, monitoring, and interpreting the data, information, evidence,
objects, measurements, images, sound, etc., whether tangible or intangible, to provide a
basis for decisionmaking.
Assigned Resource - ANSWER -Resource checked in and assigned work tasks on an
incident.
Assignment - ANSWER -Task given to a personnel resource to perform within a given
operational period that is based on operational objectives defined in the Incident Action
Plan.
Assistant - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -An agency or organization providing personnel, services,
or other resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident management.
Available Resource - ANSWER -Resource assigned to an incident, checked in, and
available for a mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
Badging - ANSWER -The assignment of physical incident-specific credentials to
establish legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
Branch - ANSWER -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.
,Agency - ANSWER -A division of government with a specific function offering a
particular kind of assistance. In the Incident Command System, agencies are defined
either as jurisdictional (having statutory responsibility for incident management) or as
assisting or cooperating (providing resources or other assistance).
Governmental organizations are most often in charge of an incident, though in certain
circumstances private sector organizations may be included. Additionally,
nongovernmental organizations may be included to provide support.
Agency Administrator or Executive - ANSWER -The official responsible for
administering policy for an agency or jurisdiction. An Agency Administrator/Executive (or
other public official with jurisdictional responsibility for the incident) usually makes the
decision to establish an Area Command.
Agency Dispatch - ANSWER -The agency or jurisdictional facility from which resources
are sent to incidents.
Agency Representative - ANSWER -A person assigned by a primary, assisting, or
cooperating Federal, State, tribal, or local government agency or private organization
that has been delegated authority to make decisions affecting that agency's or
organization's participation in incident management activities following appropriate
consultation with the leadership of that agency.
All-Hazards - ANSWER -Describing an incident, natural or manmade, that warrants
action to protect life, property, environment, public health or safety, and minimize
disruptions of government, social, or economic activities.
Allocated Resource - ANSWER -Resource dispatched to an incident.
Cache - ANSWER -A predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and/or supplies
stored in a designated location, available for incident use.
Camp - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The orderly line of authority within the ranks of the
incident management organization.
Check-In - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit
statutory, regulatory, or delegated authority.
Command Staff - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The process of transmission of information through
verbal, written, or symbolic means.
Communications/Dispatch Center - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area
and assigned to a single Incident Commander or to Unified Command.
Cooperating Agency - ANSWER -An agency supplying assistance other than direct
operational or support functions or resources to the incident management effort.
Coordinate - ANSWER -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 - ANSWER -The implementation of procedures that are based on
lessons learned from actual incidents or from training and exercises.
