ICS 100

Question 1

An incident is an occurrence, either caused by ___1___, or ____2____, that requires response actions to prevent or minimize loss of life or damage to property and/or the environment.

Answer 1

1. humans.

2. natural phenomena.

Question 2

ICS is:
-A proven management system based on successful ___1___.

-The result of decades of lessons learned in the ___2___ and ___3___ of emergency incidents.

Answer 2

1. business practices.
2. organization
3. management

Question 3

ICS is designed to do:
- Meet the needs of incidents of any kind or size.

• Allow personnel from a variety of agencies to meld rapidly into a ______1_______ structure.
• Proved logistical and administrative support to operational staff.
• Be cost effective by avoiding ____2____.

Answer 3

1. common management

2. duplication of efforts

Question 4

ICS helps ensure full utilization of all incident resources by: (4)

Answer 4

1. Maintaining a manageable span of control.
2. Establishing predesignated incident location and facilities.
3. Implementing resource management practices.
4. Ensuring integrated communications.

Question 5

ICS establishes common terminology allowing diverse incident management and support entities to work together. Common terminology helps to define: (4)

Answer 5

1. Organizational functions.
2. Resource descriptions.
3. Incident facilities.
4. Position titles.

Question 6

Management by objectives. It can be accomplished through the incident action planning process, which includes the following steps: (6)

Answer 6

1. Understand agency policy and direction.
2. Assess incident situation.
3. Establish incident objectives.
4. Select appropriate strategy or strategies to achieve objectives.
5. Perform tactical direction.
6. Provide necessary follow-up.

Question 7

At the simplest level, all Incident Action Plans (oral or written) must have four elements: (4)

Answer 7

1. What do we want to do?
2. Who is responsible for doing it?
3. How do we communicate with each other?
4. What is the procedure if someone is injured?

Question 8

Span of control: pertains to the number of individuals or resources that one supervisor can manage effectively during emergency response incidents or special events.

Effective span of control on incidents may vary from __1__ to __2__, and a ratio of one supervisor to ___3___ reporting elements is recommended.

Answer 8

1. 3
2. 7
3. 5

Question 9

Where should the Staging area be set up?

Answer 9

Staging Areas should be located close enough to the incident for timely response, but far enough away to be out of the immediate impact zone.
*may be more than one staging area at an incident.

Question 10

ICS resources can be factored into two categories: (2)

Answer 10

1. Tactical Resources: personnel and major items of equipment that are available or potentially available to the Operations function on assignment to incidents.
2. Support Resources: All other resources required to support the incident. Food, communications equipment, tents, supplies, and fleet vehicles are examples of support resources.

Question 11

Tactical resources are always classified as one of three types: (3)

Answer 11

1. Assigned.
2. Available.
3. Out-of-service.

Question 12

Resource Management includes processes for :

4

Answer 12

1. Categorizing.
2. Ordering.
3. Dispatching.
4. Recovering resources.

Question 13

The use of a common communications plan is essential for ensuring that ___1___ can communicate with one another during an incident. Communication equipment, procedures and systems must operate across ____2____ (interoperably).

Answer 13

1. responders

2. jurisdictions

Question 14

Effective ICS communications include three elements:

____1____: The “hardware” systems that transfer information.

____2____: for the use of all available communications resources.

____3____: Networks: the procedures and processes for transferring information internally and externally.

Answer 14

1. Modes.
2. Planning.
3. Networks.

Question 15

What is chain of command?

Answer 15

Chain of command means that there is an orderly line of authority within the ranks of the organization, with lower levels subordinate to, and connected to, higher levels.

Question 16

What is Unity of Command?

Answer 16

Unity of command means that every individual is accountable to only one designated supervisor to whom they report at the scene of an incident.

Question 17

The command function can be carried out in two ways. (2)

Answer 17

1. Single command

2. unified command.

Question 18

What kind of command may be needed for the following incidents.

• Multiple jurisdictions.
• A single jurisdiction with multiple agencies sharing responsibility.
• Multiple jurisdictions with multi-agency involvement.

Answer 18

Unified Command.

Question 19

The process of moving the responsibility for incident command from one Incident Commander to another is called?

Answer 19

Transfer of Command.

Question 20

Transfer of Command may take place when:

• A ___1___ person assumes command.
• The incident situation changes over time, resulting in a ___2___ requirement to change command.
• Changing command makes good sense, an Incident Management Team takes command of an incident from a ___3___ unit due to the increased incident complexity.
• There is normal turnover of personnel on long or extended incidents, i.e., to accommodate work/rest requirements.
• The incident response is conclude and incident responsibility is transferred back to the home agency.

Answer 20

1. more qualified.
2. legal .
3. local jurisdiction.

Question 21

The transfer of command process always includes a transfer of command briefing, which may be ______, _______ or a combination of both.

Answer 21

oral; written.

Question 22

Accountability: the following guidelines must be adhered to:
- ___1___ all responders, regardless of agency affiliation, must report in to receive an assignment in accordance with the procedures established by the Incident Commander.

• ___2___ Response operations must be directed and coordinated as outlined.
• ___3___ Each individual involved in incident operations will be assigned to only one supervisor.
• ___4___ Supervisors must be able to adequately supervise and control their subordinates, as well as communicate with and manage all resources under their supervision.
• ___5___ supervisors must record and report resource status changes as they occur.

Answer 22

1. Check-in:
2. Incident Action Plan;
3. Unity of Command:
4. Span of Control;
5. Resource tracking.

Question 23

Important considerations related to communications include:

• Observing strict radio/telephone procedures.
• Using ___1___ in all communications, ___2___ should not be used in radio transmissions. Limit the use of discipline-specific jargon, especially on interdisciplinary incidents.
• Limiting radio and telephone traffic to essential information only. Plan on what you are going to say.
• Following procedures for ___3___ as required.

Answer 23

1. plain English.
2. Codes.
3. secure communications.

Question 24

What are the five major management functions?

Answer 24

1. Incident Command.
2. Operations.
3. Planning.
4. Logistics.
5. Finance/administration.

Question 25

What are the three positions in Command Staff?

Answer 25

1. Public information officer. 2. Safety Officer. 3. Liaison Officer.

Question 26

what are the four Sections of General Staff?

Answer 26

1. Operations, 2. Planning. 3. Logistics, 4. finance/administration.

Question 27

Operations section: is where the ___1____ is done.

Answer 27

1. tactical fieldwork.

Question 28

What is a task force?

Answer 28

Task Forces are a combination of mixed resources with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a leader.

Question 29

What is a Strike Team.?

Answer 29

Strike Teams are a set number of resources of the same kind and type with common communications operating under the direct supervision of a strike team Leader.