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NIMS- ICS Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions Flexibility - Answer️️ -Scalable and applicable to varied hazards, geography Standardization - Answer️️ -Defines standard organizational strutures; improves integration and connectivity amongst varied jurisdictions; common terminology ...

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NIMS- ICS Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions

Flexibility - Answer✔️✔️-Scalable and applicable to varied hazards, geography


Standardization - Answer✔️✔️-Defines standard organizational strutures; improves

integration and connectivity amongst varied jurisdictions; common terminology


Unity of effort - Answer✔️✔️-coordinating activities amongst various orgs. to

achieve common objectives


Area Command - Answer✔️✔️-Very complex or multiple concurrent smaller

incidents; goal is to oversee management and prioritize scarce resources;

frequently established as Unified Commands


EOC - Answer✔️✔️-Facility from which staff provide information management,

resource allocation and tracking, and advanced planning support


Incident Commander - Answer✔️✔️-Individual responsible for on-scene activities;

develops incident objectives, and ordering and releasing resources; overall

responsibility and authority


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MAC Group - Answer✔️✔️-Sometimes called policy group; admins and execs;

provide policy guidance; support resource prioritization and allocation; allow pols

to make the necessary decisions


Unified Command - Answer✔️✔️-When more than one agency has jurisdiction or

when incidents crosses jurisdictions; rule of incident command is conducted

jointly; each partner maintains his authority


Resource typing - Answer✔️✔️-categorizes by capability; allows for planning,

requesting


FEMA selects resources that - Answer✔️✔️-widely used and sharable; can be shared

across jurisdictions; ID'd by Capability, category, kind and type


Capability - Answer✔️✔️-core capability for which is most useful


Category - Answer✔️✔️-Function for which is most useful


Kind - Answer✔️✔️-Characterization: Personnel, teams, facilities, equipment, and

supplies


Type - Answer✔️✔️-Minimum Capability: Specific metrics based on Kind and

mission; Type 1 is the highest; Capability based on size, power, and capacity or for




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teams: experience and capability; can be ID'd, inventoried, and tracked; used in

incident management; are sufficiently interoperable


Qualification - Answer✔️✔️-Process through which personnel meet the minimum

established criteria (training, experience, physical and medical fitness, and

capability)


Certification/Recertification - Answer✔️✔️-Recognition from AHJ or third party

stating that an individual has met and continues to meet established criteria


Credentialling - Answer✔️✔️-Occurs when an AHJ OR third party provides

documentation; ID's personnel and authenticates quals for a particular position


Nationally recognized standards - Answer✔️✔️-provide consistent baseline; uses the

Position Task Book (PTB); PTB's describe minimum competencies, behaviors, and

tasks; FEMA recommends standards, but it is the broad group of AHJ's that

ultimately determine these


Planning for resources - Answer✔️✔️-Jurisdictions and organization work together

to plan for, ID, manage, estimate, allocate, order, deploy and demobilize resources.

ID's needs, vulnerabilities


Resource management strategies should: - Answer✔️✔️-Stockpile resource,

establish mutual aid agreements, determine how and where to store resources,
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