FEMA Final Exam ICS 100: IS-
100.C: Introduction to the Incident
Command System Real Questions
with Verified Correct Answers ||
Graded A+ || Latest Update
Comprehensive Resource Management - ANSWER ✔ -
Comprehensive Resource Management describes standard
mechanisms to identify requirements, order and acquire, mobilize,
track and report, demobilize, and reimburse and restock
resources such as personnel, teams, facilities, equipment and
supplies.
Key resource management activities include:
- Resource Identification and Typing
- Qualification, Certification and Credentialing Personnel
- Planning for Resources
- Acquiring, Storing and Inventorying Resources
Integrated Communications - ANSWER ✔ Incident
communications are facilitated through the development and use
of a common communications plan and interoperable
communication processes and systems that include voice and
data links.
- Integrated Communications are necessary to:
- Maintain connectivity
- Achieve situational awareness
,- Facilitate information sharing
Planning - ANSWER ✔Supports the incident action planning
process by tracking resources, collecting/analyzing information,
and maintaining documentation.
Logistics - ANSWER ✔ Arranges for resources and needed
services to support achievement of the incident objectives
(resources can include personnel, equipment, teams, supplies,
and facilities).
Finance/Administration - ANSWER ✔ Monitors costs related to
the incident. Provides accounting, procurement, time recording,
and cost analyses.
Intelligence/Investigations (I/I) - ANSWER ✔ A 6th ICS function
identified in NIMS, can be established to collect, analyze, and
disseminate incident-related information and intelligence
Command - ANSWER ✔ The National Incident Management
System (NIMS) defines command as the act of directing, ordering,
or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or
delegated authority.
Incident Commander - ANSWER ✔ Has the authority to establish
objectives, make assignments, and order resources.
The Incident Commander is the only position that is always
staffed in ICS applications.
Specifically responsible for:
Ensuring overall incident safety
Providing information services to internal and external
stakeholders, such as disaster survivors, agency executives, and
senior officials
,Establishing and maintaining liaisons with other agencies
participating in the incident
What is the Incident Command System? - ANSWER ✔ The
Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to
incident management that:
- Is used for all kinds of incidents by all types of organizations and
at all levels of government; ICS is applicable to small incidents as
well as large and complex ones.
- Can be used not only for emergencies, but also for planned
events.
- Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and
agencies.
- Establishes common processes for incident-level planning and
resource management.
- Allows for the integration of resources (such as facilities,
equipment, personnel) within a common organizational structure
When is ICS Used? - ANSWER ✔ - used to manage any type of
incident, including a planned event (e.g., the Olympics, the
Governor's inauguration, state fairs, a local parade, etc.). The use
of ICS is applicable to all types of incidents, regardless of their
size or cause.
- provide an organizational structure for incident management, but
it also guides the process for planning, building, and adapting that
structure
- will help to maintain and improve skills needed to effectively
coordinate larger or more complex efforts
National Incident Management System (NIMS) - ANSWER ✔ - is
a systematic, proactive approach to guide all levels of
government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the
private sector to work together to prevent, protect against,
mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents.
, - provides a consistent foundation for all incidents, ranging from
daily occurrences to incidents requiring a coordinated Federal
response
- NIMS is organized into three major components:
Resource Management
-- Command and Coordination - including the Incident
-- Command System
-- Communications and Information Management
It is important to note that the Incident Command System (ICS) is
just one part of NIMS.
--> ICS is under command and coordination
Benefits of ICS - ANSWER ✔ Clarifying chain of command and
supervision responsibilities to improve accountability.
Leveraging interoperable communications systems and plain
language to improve communications.
Providing an orderly, systematic planning process.
Implementing a common, flexible, predesigned management
structure.
Fostering cooperation between diverse disciplines and agencies.
ICS: Built on Best Practices - ANSWER ✔ - has been tested for
more than 40 years of emergency and nonemergency
applications by all levels of government; and in nongovernmental
and private-sector organizations.
ICS helps to ensure:
The safety of responders, community members, and others.
100.C: Introduction to the Incident
Command System Real Questions
with Verified Correct Answers ||
Graded A+ || Latest Update
Comprehensive Resource Management - ANSWER ✔ -
Comprehensive Resource Management describes standard
mechanisms to identify requirements, order and acquire, mobilize,
track and report, demobilize, and reimburse and restock
resources such as personnel, teams, facilities, equipment and
supplies.
Key resource management activities include:
- Resource Identification and Typing
- Qualification, Certification and Credentialing Personnel
- Planning for Resources
- Acquiring, Storing and Inventorying Resources
Integrated Communications - ANSWER ✔ Incident
communications are facilitated through the development and use
of a common communications plan and interoperable
communication processes and systems that include voice and
data links.
- Integrated Communications are necessary to:
- Maintain connectivity
- Achieve situational awareness
,- Facilitate information sharing
Planning - ANSWER ✔Supports the incident action planning
process by tracking resources, collecting/analyzing information,
and maintaining documentation.
Logistics - ANSWER ✔ Arranges for resources and needed
services to support achievement of the incident objectives
(resources can include personnel, equipment, teams, supplies,
and facilities).
Finance/Administration - ANSWER ✔ Monitors costs related to
the incident. Provides accounting, procurement, time recording,
and cost analyses.
Intelligence/Investigations (I/I) - ANSWER ✔ A 6th ICS function
identified in NIMS, can be established to collect, analyze, and
disseminate incident-related information and intelligence
Command - ANSWER ✔ The National Incident Management
System (NIMS) defines command as the act of directing, ordering,
or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory, regulatory, or
delegated authority.
Incident Commander - ANSWER ✔ Has the authority to establish
objectives, make assignments, and order resources.
The Incident Commander is the only position that is always
staffed in ICS applications.
Specifically responsible for:
Ensuring overall incident safety
Providing information services to internal and external
stakeholders, such as disaster survivors, agency executives, and
senior officials
,Establishing and maintaining liaisons with other agencies
participating in the incident
What is the Incident Command System? - ANSWER ✔ The
Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized approach to
incident management that:
- Is used for all kinds of incidents by all types of organizations and
at all levels of government; ICS is applicable to small incidents as
well as large and complex ones.
- Can be used not only for emergencies, but also for planned
events.
- Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and
agencies.
- Establishes common processes for incident-level planning and
resource management.
- Allows for the integration of resources (such as facilities,
equipment, personnel) within a common organizational structure
When is ICS Used? - ANSWER ✔ - used to manage any type of
incident, including a planned event (e.g., the Olympics, the
Governor's inauguration, state fairs, a local parade, etc.). The use
of ICS is applicable to all types of incidents, regardless of their
size or cause.
- provide an organizational structure for incident management, but
it also guides the process for planning, building, and adapting that
structure
- will help to maintain and improve skills needed to effectively
coordinate larger or more complex efforts
National Incident Management System (NIMS) - ANSWER ✔ - is
a systematic, proactive approach to guide all levels of
government, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the
private sector to work together to prevent, protect against,
mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents.
, - provides a consistent foundation for all incidents, ranging from
daily occurrences to incidents requiring a coordinated Federal
response
- NIMS is organized into three major components:
Resource Management
-- Command and Coordination - including the Incident
-- Command System
-- Communications and Information Management
It is important to note that the Incident Command System (ICS) is
just one part of NIMS.
--> ICS is under command and coordination
Benefits of ICS - ANSWER ✔ Clarifying chain of command and
supervision responsibilities to improve accountability.
Leveraging interoperable communications systems and plain
language to improve communications.
Providing an orderly, systematic planning process.
Implementing a common, flexible, predesigned management
structure.
Fostering cooperation between diverse disciplines and agencies.
ICS: Built on Best Practices - ANSWER ✔ - has been tested for
more than 40 years of emergency and nonemergency
applications by all levels of government; and in nongovernmental
and private-sector organizations.
ICS helps to ensure:
The safety of responders, community members, and others.
