ICS 400 Final Exam November 2024

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When an Incident Complex is established over several individual incidents, how are the previous individual incidents incorporated into the organization of the complex? *

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The Emergency Operations Center established a specialized Planning Branch and begins directing planning activities.

They become branches or divisions within the Operations Section of the Incident Complex

They become branches or divisions within the Planning Section of the incident complex

Technical specialists are added to the planning Section to provide better support throughout the planning process

Which of the following factors are characteristics of a complex incident? *

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The incident involves a vehicle fire, an injured person, or a police traffic stop

Does not require extensive post-incident recovery efforts

Includes widespread damage to property/environment/economy

The incident can be handled with one or two single resources with up to six personnel

Why might an Area Command be activated during an incident situation? *

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To oversee the management of a multiple large incidents each of which has an Incident Management Team assigned to it.

Makes multi-point ordering easier

There is not an issue with resource support to the entire affected area

The incident is easily managed by separate Incident Management Teams

What is the advantage of using Area Command? Advanatages Include: *

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Informal yet flexible based on oral agreements between jurisdictions

Improved Coordination between incidents competing for the same resources

Avoids disadvantages of Unity of Command

Serves as a Coordination Center to develop tactics

Regarding EOC and MAC Groups, what is an advantage of activating Area Command? *

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Increases responsibility of the EOC/MAC group officials

Reduces resource needs of the EOC/MAC group officials

Reduces the workload of the EOC/MAC group officials

Moves policy and scarce resource decisions to the Area Commander

What type of activation should be considered when multiple incidents are using similar and limited resources? *

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Area Command

Unified Command

Level 4

Level 5

Which responsibility outlines an Area Command's primary function? *

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Provide Federal authority for assigned incidents

Coordinate Long-term recover efforts

Determine tactical priorities at each incident location

Provide overall direction on priorities and ensure that the development of incident objectives and strategies for each incident is consisten with the needs of the Agency Administrators

Once an Area Command is activated, whose responsibility is it to ensure conflicts are resolved, incident objectives are established for each incident and priorities are established for allocation of scarce resources? *

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EOC Director

Agency Administrator

Incident Commander

Area Commander

NIMS defines ___________ as the exchange of information systematically among principals who have or may have a need to know certain information to carry out specific incident management responsibilities? *

1 point

Coordination

Command

Delegation of Authority

Operational Period Planning Cycle (Planning P)

In NIMS 2017, what term encompasses the architecture for tactical coordination (ICS), operational support coordination (EOCs), policy level coordination (MAC Group) and their support through coordinated information through the Joint Information System (JIS)? *

1 point

Command and Coordination

Resource Management

Communication and Information Management

NIMS Management Characteristics

Which of the following roles does the MAC Group normally fill? *

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Establishing incident management policies and priorities

Establishing tactical objectives

Establishing the location of the Incident Command Post

Approving the Incident Action Plan (IAP)

Coordinating interagency and intergovernmental issues regarding incident management policies and priorities is the role of? *

1 point

The Joint Information System (JIS)

The MAC Group

The Area Commander

The Incident Commander

The Command and Coordination component of NIMS includes four NIMS Functional Groups: Emergency Operations Centers, Multiagency Coordination Groups, and Joint Information Systems. What is the fourth? *

1 point

Incident Command System

Area of Command

Incident Management Team

Unified Command

What NIMS Command and Coordination component consists of the processes, procedures, and tools to enable communication to the public, the media, and other stakeholders? *

1 point

Emergency Operations Centers

Joint Information System

Multi-agency Coordination Groups

Incident Command System

Of the entities listed, which one is where staff from multiple agencies typically come together to provide coordinated support to the organization managing the incident on-scene? *

1 point

Crisis action team center

Policy committee headquarters

Incident Command Post

Emergency Operations Center

Which of these consist of representatives from stakeholder agencies/organizations and is a group specifically established to make cooperative multiagency decisions? *

1 point

Emergency Operations Centers

National Response Coordination Center

MAC Group

Joint Information Center

To improve interagency coordination, what Incident Command System application can be utilized to share command responsibility when there is more than one agency with jurisdiction over a single incident? *

1 point

Unity of Effort

Unity of Command

Area Command

Unified Command

EOC Coordination functions may include: Collecting and analyzing information, sharing information, and? *

1 point

Approving the Incident Action Plan (IAP)

Filling out the ICS Form 225 for Incident Management Team personnel

Supporting resource needs and requests from individual incidents

Unity of Command

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