NIMS ICS 100 Knowledge Check (2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

NIMS ICS 100 Knowledge Check (2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: Chain of command restricts personnel from communicating or sharing information outside their organizational units. Answer: False Q: To promote accountability, which document outlines the method for coordinating response operations? Answer: Incident Action Plan Q: Supports the incident action planning process by tracking resources, collecting/analyzing information, and maintaining documentation. Answer: Planning Q: Sets the incident objectives, strategies, and priorities, and has overall responsibility for the incident. Answer: Incident Command Q: Ensures that all intelligence/investigations operations and activities are properly managed, coordinated, and directed. Answer: Intelligence/Investigations Q: Conducts operations to reach the incident objectives. Establishes tactics and directs all operational resources. Answer: Operations Q: Monitors costs related to the incident. Provides accounting, procurement, time recording, and cost analyses. Answer: Finance/Administration Q: Arranges for resources and needed services to support achievement of the incident objectives. Answer: Logistics Q: The Deputy Incident Commander will be replacing the current Incident Commander, who needs to attend to a family emergency. The current Incident Commander should: Answer: Provide a transfer-of-command briefing to the new Commander Q: I work very closely with Operations to make sure that our people in the field are wearing appropriate protective equipment and implementing safe tactical options. Answer: Safety Officer Q: I provide briefings to supporting Agency Representatives and work with them to address their questions and concerns about the operation. I remain visible on the incident scene to all incoming cooperating and assisting agencies. Answer: Liaison Officer Q: I am the primary contact for anyone who wants details about the incident and our response to it. I serve an external audience through the media and an internal audience including incident staff and agency personnel. Answer: Public Information Officer Q: Establish objectives, make assignments, and order resources Answer: Incident Command

Incident command system

Standardized approach to incident management that is used for events that are planned and unplanned. Combines all resources

When is ICS used

Using ICS for every incident or planned event provides the practice that will help to maintain and improve skills needed to effectively coordinate larger or more complex efforts

example: olympics, governor inaguration

What is NIMS

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.

What are the benefits of ICS

-chain of command

-clear planning process

-creating cooperation between diverse agencies and corporations

ICS has been around for

40 years

ICS helps ensure

-efficent use of resources

-that everyone is safe

-incident objectives are reached

The Incident Command System (ICS) and NIMS are the same, and these terms can be used interchangeably.

false

ICS could be used to manage a large sporting event or a visit from a foreign dignitary.

true

ICS is a standardized, on-scene, widely applicable approach to incident management.

true

14 NIMS management characteristics

Common Terminology

Modular Organization

Management by Objectives

Incident Action Planning

Manageable Span of Control

Incident Facilities and Locations

Comprehensive Resource Management

Integrated Communications

Establishment and Transfer of Command

Unified Command

Chain of Command and Unity of Command

Accountability

Dispatch/Deployment

Information and Intelligence Management

Modular organization

The Incident Command System (ICS) organizational structure develops in a modular fashion based on the incident's size and complexity.

Management by objectives

Establishing specific, measurable incident objectives.

Identifying strategies, tactics, tasks and activities to achieve the objectives.

Developing and issuing assignments, plans, procedures, and protocols to accomplish identified tasks.

Documenting results for the incident objectives.

Incident action planning

Cover a specified timeframe

Be proactive

Specify the incident objectives

State the activities to be completed

Assign responsibilities

Identify needed resources

Specify communication protocols

Managable span of control

the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during an incident. (1:5 ratio)

Incident facilites and location

Incident Command Post (ICP)

Incident base, staging areas, and camps

Mass casualty triage areas

Point-of-distribution

Emergency shelters

Comprehensive Resource Management

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

Integrated communications

Maintain connectivity

Achieve situational awareness

Facilitate information sharing

Establishment and transfer of command

The jurisdiction or organization with primary responsibility for the incident designates the Incident Commander and the process for transferring command.

Unified command

No single commander. manages the incident through jointly approved objectives. Unified Command allows agencies with different legal, geographic, and functional responsibilities to work together effectively without affecting individual agency authority, responsibility, or accountability.

Chain of command

an orderly line that details how authority flows through the hierarchy of the incident management organization. Chain of command:

Allows an Incident Commander to direct and control the actions of all personnel on the incident.

Avoids confusion by requiring that orders flow from supervisors.

Unity of command

deals with the fact that all individuals have a single designated supervisor they report to.

-report to only one ICS officer

-Receive work from only one ICS officer

Because incident details are often unknown at the start, command should not be established until after the Incident Action Plan has been developed.

false

Unity of command means that every individual is accountable to and reports to only one designated supervisor.

true

Chain of command restricts personnel from communicating or sharing information outside their organizational units.

false

Accountability

you will need to abide by agency policies and guidelines and any applicable local, tribal, state, or Federal rules and regulations.

There are several principles you will need to adhere to:

Check-In/Check-Out. All responders must report in to receive an assignment. Checking out is just as critical as checking in.

Incident Action Planning. Response operations must be coordinated as outlined in the Incident Action Plan.

Unity of Command. Each individual will be assigned to only one supervisor.

Personal Responsibility. ICS relies on each individual taking personal accountability for his or her own actions.

Span of Control. Supervisors must be able to adequately supervise and control their subordinates, as well as communicate with and manage all resources under their supervision.

Resource Tracking. Supervisors must record and report resource status changes as they occur. Accountability starts as soon as a resource is requested through the time that the resource returns to their home base safely.

Dispatch/deployment

Resources should be deployed only when requested or when dispatched by an appropriate authority through established resource management systems.

Information and intelligence management

examples: