NIMS IS-700.b TEST STUDY GUIDE
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1. NIMS Guiding Principles - ANSWER ✔ Flexibility
Standardization
Unity of Effort
2. Flexibility - ANSWER ✔ Allows NIMS to be scalable from routine, local
incidents through those requiring interstate mutual aid up to those requiring
Federal assistance
3. Standardization - ANSWER ✔ Supports interoperability among multiple
organizations in incident response
4. Standard Organizational Structures - ANSWER ✔ Improve integration and
connectivity among organizations
5. Standard Practices - ANSWER ✔ Allow incident personnel and
organizations to work together effectively
6. Common Terminology - ANSWER ✔ Enables effective communication
7. Unity of Effort - ANSWER ✔ Enables organizations with jurisdictional
authority or functional responsibilities to support each other while allowing
each participating agency to maintain its own authority and accountability
8. 3 Major Components of NIMS - ANSWER ✔ 1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination
3. Communications and Information Management
,9. Resource Management - ANSWER ✔ Standard mechanisms to systematics
manage resources, including personnel, equipment, supplies, teams, and
facilities, both before and during incidents in order to allow organizations to
more effectively share resources when needed
10.EOCs can be fixed locations, temporary facilities, or virtual structures with
staff participating remotely.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE - ANSWER ✔ A. TRUE
11.Which NIMS Management Characteristic includes documents that record
and communicate incident objectives, tactics, and assignments for operations
and support?
A. Common Terminology
B. Information and Intelligence Management
C. Integrated Communications
D. Incident Action Planning - ANSWER ✔ D. Incident Action Planning
12.Which of the following statements about NIMS are correct? - ANSWER ✔
NIMS is scalable, flexible, and adaptable for all incidents.
NIMS is a set of concepts and principles for all threats.
13.The NIMS guiding principle of ____ facilitates interoperability among
organizations in incident response. - ANSWER ✔ Standardization
14.Leadership roles, processes, and recommended organizational structures for
incident management at the operational and incident support levels and how
these structures interact to manage incidents effectively and efficiently. -
ANSWER ✔ Command and Coordination
15.Standard mechanisms to identify resource requirements and to order,
acquire, mobilize, activate, track and report, demobilize, reimburse for, and
inventory resources such as personnel, equipment, teams, and facilities. -
ANSWER ✔ Resource Management
,16.Systems to ensure that decision makers, incident managers, and incident
personnel have the information needed to make and implement decisions. -
ANSWER ✔ Communications and Information Management
17.Which of the following resource management key activities defines and
categorizes incident resources by capability? - ANSWER ✔ Identifying
and Typing Resources
18.Which of the following take place within the Track and Report stage of the
resource management process? - ANSWER ✔ Protects the safety and
security of personnel and resources.
Enables resource coordination and movement.
Helps staff prepare to receive and use resources.
19."The orderly, safe, and efficient return of a resource to its original location
and status" is the goal of which of the following? - ANSWER ✔
Demobilize
20.The role of the receiving jurisdiction for mutual aid includes which of the
following? - ANSWER ✔ Declining resources that do not meet needs.
21.Which of the following NIMS Management Characteristics allow units from
diverse agencies to connect, share information, and achieve situational
awareness? - ANSWER ✔ Integrated Communications
22.Typical designated ____________ include Incident Command Post (ICP),
incident base, staging areas, camps, mass casualty triage areas, points-of-
distribution, and emergency shelters. - ANSWER ✔ Incident Facilities and
Locations
23.Which of the following is associated with multijurisdictional or multiagency
incident management? - ANSWER ✔ Unified Command
24.Which of the following statements are accurate about an Area Command?
Select all that apply. - ANSWER ✔ Area Commands are frequently
established as Unified Area Commands and use the same principles as a
Unified Command.
, An Area Command organization oversees the management of multiple incidents
or a very large or evolving situation.
Area Command is particularly relevant to situations with several Incident
Command Posts (ICPs) requesting similar, scarce resources.
25.Which Emergency Operations Center (EOC) structure may reflect an
organization that focuses efforts on information, planning, and resource
support? - ANSWER ✔ Incident Support Model (ISM)
26.Activities that are normal for the EOC when no incident or specific risk or
hazard has been identified; routine watch and warning activities. - ANSWER
✔ Normal Operations/Steady-State
27.Certain EOC team members/organizations are activated to monitor a
credible threat, risk, or hazard and/or to support the response to a new and
potentially evolving incident. - ANSWER ✔ Enhanced Steady-State/Partial
Activation
28.EOC team is activated, including personnel from all assisting agencies, to
support the response to a major incident or credible threat. - ANSWER ✔
Full Activation
29.Which of the following statements are correct about MAC Groups? -
ANSWER ✔ During incidents, MAC Groups make cooperative
multiagency decisions.
During incidents, MAC Groups support resource prioritization and allocation.
During incidents, MAC Groups act as a policy-level body.
30.Which of the following are supporting elements of the JIS? - ANSWER ✔
Public Information Officer
Joint Information Center
31.When an incident occurs, local emergency personnel manage response using
which of the following? - ANSWER ✔ ICS
32.Which of the following statements is accurate about a Joint Information
Center (JIC)? - ANSWER ✔ Manages Joint Information System (JIS)
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1. NIMS Guiding Principles - ANSWER ✔ Flexibility
Standardization
Unity of Effort
2. Flexibility - ANSWER ✔ Allows NIMS to be scalable from routine, local
incidents through those requiring interstate mutual aid up to those requiring
Federal assistance
3. Standardization - ANSWER ✔ Supports interoperability among multiple
organizations in incident response
4. Standard Organizational Structures - ANSWER ✔ Improve integration and
connectivity among organizations
5. Standard Practices - ANSWER ✔ Allow incident personnel and
organizations to work together effectively
6. Common Terminology - ANSWER ✔ Enables effective communication
7. Unity of Effort - ANSWER ✔ Enables organizations with jurisdictional
authority or functional responsibilities to support each other while allowing
each participating agency to maintain its own authority and accountability
8. 3 Major Components of NIMS - ANSWER ✔ 1. Resource Management
2. Command and Coordination
3. Communications and Information Management
,9. Resource Management - ANSWER ✔ Standard mechanisms to systematics
manage resources, including personnel, equipment, supplies, teams, and
facilities, both before and during incidents in order to allow organizations to
more effectively share resources when needed
10.EOCs can be fixed locations, temporary facilities, or virtual structures with
staff participating remotely.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE - ANSWER ✔ A. TRUE
11.Which NIMS Management Characteristic includes documents that record
and communicate incident objectives, tactics, and assignments for operations
and support?
A. Common Terminology
B. Information and Intelligence Management
C. Integrated Communications
D. Incident Action Planning - ANSWER ✔ D. Incident Action Planning
12.Which of the following statements about NIMS are correct? - ANSWER ✔
NIMS is scalable, flexible, and adaptable for all incidents.
NIMS is a set of concepts and principles for all threats.
13.The NIMS guiding principle of ____ facilitates interoperability among
organizations in incident response. - ANSWER ✔ Standardization
14.Leadership roles, processes, and recommended organizational structures for
incident management at the operational and incident support levels and how
these structures interact to manage incidents effectively and efficiently. -
ANSWER ✔ Command and Coordination
15.Standard mechanisms to identify resource requirements and to order,
acquire, mobilize, activate, track and report, demobilize, reimburse for, and
inventory resources such as personnel, equipment, teams, and facilities. -
ANSWER ✔ Resource Management
,16.Systems to ensure that decision makers, incident managers, and incident
personnel have the information needed to make and implement decisions. -
ANSWER ✔ Communications and Information Management
17.Which of the following resource management key activities defines and
categorizes incident resources by capability? - ANSWER ✔ Identifying
and Typing Resources
18.Which of the following take place within the Track and Report stage of the
resource management process? - ANSWER ✔ Protects the safety and
security of personnel and resources.
Enables resource coordination and movement.
Helps staff prepare to receive and use resources.
19."The orderly, safe, and efficient return of a resource to its original location
and status" is the goal of which of the following? - ANSWER ✔
Demobilize
20.The role of the receiving jurisdiction for mutual aid includes which of the
following? - ANSWER ✔ Declining resources that do not meet needs.
21.Which of the following NIMS Management Characteristics allow units from
diverse agencies to connect, share information, and achieve situational
awareness? - ANSWER ✔ Integrated Communications
22.Typical designated ____________ include Incident Command Post (ICP),
incident base, staging areas, camps, mass casualty triage areas, points-of-
distribution, and emergency shelters. - ANSWER ✔ Incident Facilities and
Locations
23.Which of the following is associated with multijurisdictional or multiagency
incident management? - ANSWER ✔ Unified Command
24.Which of the following statements are accurate about an Area Command?
Select all that apply. - ANSWER ✔ Area Commands are frequently
established as Unified Area Commands and use the same principles as a
Unified Command.
, An Area Command organization oversees the management of multiple incidents
or a very large or evolving situation.
Area Command is particularly relevant to situations with several Incident
Command Posts (ICPs) requesting similar, scarce resources.
25.Which Emergency Operations Center (EOC) structure may reflect an
organization that focuses efforts on information, planning, and resource
support? - ANSWER ✔ Incident Support Model (ISM)
26.Activities that are normal for the EOC when no incident or specific risk or
hazard has been identified; routine watch and warning activities. - ANSWER
✔ Normal Operations/Steady-State
27.Certain EOC team members/organizations are activated to monitor a
credible threat, risk, or hazard and/or to support the response to a new and
potentially evolving incident. - ANSWER ✔ Enhanced Steady-State/Partial
Activation
28.EOC team is activated, including personnel from all assisting agencies, to
support the response to a major incident or credible threat. - ANSWER ✔
Full Activation
29.Which of the following statements are correct about MAC Groups? -
ANSWER ✔ During incidents, MAC Groups make cooperative
multiagency decisions.
During incidents, MAC Groups support resource prioritization and allocation.
During incidents, MAC Groups act as a policy-level body.
30.Which of the following are supporting elements of the JIS? - ANSWER ✔
Public Information Officer
Joint Information Center
31.When an incident occurs, local emergency personnel manage response using
which of the following? - ANSWER ✔ ICS
32.Which of the following statements is accurate about a Joint Information
Center (JIC)? - ANSWER ✔ Manages Joint Information System (JIS)
