FEMA 800 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Public Health/Healthcare/Emergency Medical Services - Answer- - Deliver medical
countermeasures
- Complete triage and initial stabilization of casualties and begin definitive care for those
likely to survive their injuries and illness
- Return medical surge resources to pre-incident levels, complete health assessments,
and identify recovery processes
Situational Assessment - Answer- - Deliver information sufficient to inform decision
making regarding immediate lifesaving and life-sustaining activities and engage
governmental, private, and civic sector resources within and outside of the affected area
to meet basic human needs and stabilize the incident
- Deliver enhanced information to reinforce ongoing lifesaving and life-sustaining
activities, and engage governmental, private, and civic sector resources within and
outside of the affected area to meet basic human needs, stabilize the incident, and
transition to recovery
Lifelines = Ends - Answer- the results that responders are trying to accomplish
Core Capabilities = Ways - Answer- methods that responders will use to achieve the
ends
Responders deliver the Response Core Capabilities in order to stabilize the: - Answer-
community lifelines
Mass Search/Rescue Operations - Answer- - Conduct search and rescue operations
- Initiate community-based search and rescue support operations across a wide
geographically dispersed area
- Ensure the synchronized deployment of local, regional, national, and international
teams to reinforce ongoing search and rescue efforts and transition to recovery
On-Scene Security/Protection/Law Enforcement - Answer- - Establish a safe and secure
environment in an affected area
- Provide and maintain on-scene security and meet the protection needs of the affected
population over a geographically dispersed area
Fatality Management Services - Answer- establish and maintain operations to recover a
significant # of fatalities over a geographically dispersed area
,Operational Communications - Answer- - Ensure the capacity to communicate with both
the emergency response community and the affected populations and establish
interoperable voice and data communications between Federal, tribal, state, and local
first responders
- Re-establish sufficient communications infrastructure within the affected areas to
support ongoing life-sustaining activities, provide basic human needs, and transition to
recovery
- Re-establish critical information networks, including cybersecurity information sharing
networks, in order to inform situational awareness, enable incident response, and
support the resiliency of key systems
Logistics/Supply Chain Management - Answer- - Mobilize and deliver governmental,
nongovernmental, and private sector resources to save lives, sustain lives, meet basic
human needs, stabilize the incident, and transition to recovery, to include moving and
delivering resources and services to meet the needs of disaster survivors
- Enhance public and private resource and services support for an affected area
Federal Response and Assistance Available Without a Stafford Act Declaration -
Answer- Immediate lifesaving assistance to states and other types of assistance, such
as wildland firefighting support or response to an agricultural disease or cybersecurity
incident, are performed by Federal departments or agencies under their own authorities
and funding or through reciprocal mutual assistance agreements
A community lifeline enables the continuous operation of: - Answer- critical government
and business functions
A community lifeline is essential to: - Answer- human health and safety or economic
security
Community Lifelines - Answer- -rely on multiple gov. entities/businesses/infrastructure
sectors to function
- lifelines are interdependent, meaning failure in one will impact them all
1) Safety/Security
2) Food/Water/Shelter
3) Health/Medical
4) Energy (power/fuel)
5) Communications
6) Transportation
7) Hazardous Material
Safety/Security - Answer- cops/gov services, associated assets that maintain communal
security, provide search/rescue, evacuation, firefighting, promote responder safety
, Coordinating structures help organize and measure the whole community's capabilities
in order to: - Answer- - address the requirements of the response mission area
- facilitate problem solving
- improve access to response resources
- foster coordination prior to and following an incident
*must be scalable/flexible/adaptable*
Private Sector - Answer- when catastrophic incidents put a premium on the restoration
of complex supply chains, vital for public health/safety/economy/national
security/prioritizing missions
Private Sector Coordinating Structures - Answer- - business emergency operations
centers
- industry trade groups
- private sector info/intelligence centers
Local Coordinating Structures/Operational Planning - Answer- composed of entities
within specific functional areas i.e. public works, law enforcement, EMS, fire
- on scene integration may occur at ICPs or EOCs
Local Coordinating Structure - Answer- - helps identify risks, establish relationships,
organize and build capabilities
- organize/integrate capabilities/resources w/ neighboring jurisdictions/state/private
sector/NGOs
- coordinating structures vary based on local differences
Local EOC - Answer- if the incident commander determines that additional
resources/capabilities are needed
- physical location where multiagency coordination occurs and where a variety of local
coordinating structures come together to solve problems
EOC - Answer- -helps form shared situational awareness of the incident
- relieves on scene command of the burden of external coordination
- secures additional resources to help meet response requirements
At the local level, Incident Management coordination also includes: - Answer- MAC
Groups
MAC Groups - Answer- Multi agency coordination groups
- composed of senior officials who are authorized to represent/commit resources/funds
- acts as an executive/policy level body during incidents, supports resource
prioritization/allocation, enables decision making
- may be located at/near EOCs
100% CORRECT ANSWERS
Public Health/Healthcare/Emergency Medical Services - Answer- - Deliver medical
countermeasures
- Complete triage and initial stabilization of casualties and begin definitive care for those
likely to survive their injuries and illness
- Return medical surge resources to pre-incident levels, complete health assessments,
and identify recovery processes
Situational Assessment - Answer- - Deliver information sufficient to inform decision
making regarding immediate lifesaving and life-sustaining activities and engage
governmental, private, and civic sector resources within and outside of the affected area
to meet basic human needs and stabilize the incident
- Deliver enhanced information to reinforce ongoing lifesaving and life-sustaining
activities, and engage governmental, private, and civic sector resources within and
outside of the affected area to meet basic human needs, stabilize the incident, and
transition to recovery
Lifelines = Ends - Answer- the results that responders are trying to accomplish
Core Capabilities = Ways - Answer- methods that responders will use to achieve the
ends
Responders deliver the Response Core Capabilities in order to stabilize the: - Answer-
community lifelines
Mass Search/Rescue Operations - Answer- - Conduct search and rescue operations
- Initiate community-based search and rescue support operations across a wide
geographically dispersed area
- Ensure the synchronized deployment of local, regional, national, and international
teams to reinforce ongoing search and rescue efforts and transition to recovery
On-Scene Security/Protection/Law Enforcement - Answer- - Establish a safe and secure
environment in an affected area
- Provide and maintain on-scene security and meet the protection needs of the affected
population over a geographically dispersed area
Fatality Management Services - Answer- establish and maintain operations to recover a
significant # of fatalities over a geographically dispersed area
,Operational Communications - Answer- - Ensure the capacity to communicate with both
the emergency response community and the affected populations and establish
interoperable voice and data communications between Federal, tribal, state, and local
first responders
- Re-establish sufficient communications infrastructure within the affected areas to
support ongoing life-sustaining activities, provide basic human needs, and transition to
recovery
- Re-establish critical information networks, including cybersecurity information sharing
networks, in order to inform situational awareness, enable incident response, and
support the resiliency of key systems
Logistics/Supply Chain Management - Answer- - Mobilize and deliver governmental,
nongovernmental, and private sector resources to save lives, sustain lives, meet basic
human needs, stabilize the incident, and transition to recovery, to include moving and
delivering resources and services to meet the needs of disaster survivors
- Enhance public and private resource and services support for an affected area
Federal Response and Assistance Available Without a Stafford Act Declaration -
Answer- Immediate lifesaving assistance to states and other types of assistance, such
as wildland firefighting support or response to an agricultural disease or cybersecurity
incident, are performed by Federal departments or agencies under their own authorities
and funding or through reciprocal mutual assistance agreements
A community lifeline enables the continuous operation of: - Answer- critical government
and business functions
A community lifeline is essential to: - Answer- human health and safety or economic
security
Community Lifelines - Answer- -rely on multiple gov. entities/businesses/infrastructure
sectors to function
- lifelines are interdependent, meaning failure in one will impact them all
1) Safety/Security
2) Food/Water/Shelter
3) Health/Medical
4) Energy (power/fuel)
5) Communications
6) Transportation
7) Hazardous Material
Safety/Security - Answer- cops/gov services, associated assets that maintain communal
security, provide search/rescue, evacuation, firefighting, promote responder safety
, Coordinating structures help organize and measure the whole community's capabilities
in order to: - Answer- - address the requirements of the response mission area
- facilitate problem solving
- improve access to response resources
- foster coordination prior to and following an incident
*must be scalable/flexible/adaptable*
Private Sector - Answer- when catastrophic incidents put a premium on the restoration
of complex supply chains, vital for public health/safety/economy/national
security/prioritizing missions
Private Sector Coordinating Structures - Answer- - business emergency operations
centers
- industry trade groups
- private sector info/intelligence centers
Local Coordinating Structures/Operational Planning - Answer- composed of entities
within specific functional areas i.e. public works, law enforcement, EMS, fire
- on scene integration may occur at ICPs or EOCs
Local Coordinating Structure - Answer- - helps identify risks, establish relationships,
organize and build capabilities
- organize/integrate capabilities/resources w/ neighboring jurisdictions/state/private
sector/NGOs
- coordinating structures vary based on local differences
Local EOC - Answer- if the incident commander determines that additional
resources/capabilities are needed
- physical location where multiagency coordination occurs and where a variety of local
coordinating structures come together to solve problems
EOC - Answer- -helps form shared situational awareness of the incident
- relieves on scene command of the burden of external coordination
- secures additional resources to help meet response requirements
At the local level, Incident Management coordination also includes: - Answer- MAC
Groups
MAC Groups - Answer- Multi agency coordination groups
- composed of senior officials who are authorized to represent/commit resources/funds
- acts as an executive/policy level body during incidents, supports resource
prioritization/allocation, enables decision making
- may be located at/near EOCs
