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Certified Emergency Manager Exam
Questions And Answers 100% Pass.
National Preparedness Goal - answer✔This defines the core capabilities necessary to prepare for
the specific types of incidents that pose the greatest risk to the security of the Nation. It
emphasizes actions aimed at achieving an integrated, layered, and all-of-Nation preparedness
approach that optimizes the use of available resources.
National Planning System has three levels of planning - answer✔Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Vertical Integration Planning - answer✔Individual all the way through federal/national
government
Horizontal Integration Planning - answer✔Planning within the jurisdiction or level of
organization.
Operational Planning - answer✔A plan that defines roles and responsibilities, tasks, and actions
during emergencies and that focuses on how activities of organizations in the jurisdiction will be
coordinated.
Accessible - answer✔Having the legally required features and/or qualities that ensure easy
entrance, participation, and usability of places, programs, services, and activities by individuals
with a wide variety of disabilities.
Agency Administrator/Executive - answer✔The official responsible for administering policy for
an agency or jurisdiction, having full authority for making decisions, and providing direction to
the management organization for an incident.
Agency Dispatch - answer✔The agency or jurisdictional facility from which resources are sent to
incidents.
Agency Representative - answer✔A person assigned by a primary, assisting, or cooperating
Federal, State, tribal, or local government agency, or nongovernmental or private organization,
that has been delegated authority to make decisions affecting that agency's or
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organization's participation in incident management activities following appropriate consultation
with the leadership of that agency.
All-Hazards - answer✔Describing an incident, natural or manmade, that warrants action to
protect life, property, environment, public health or safety, and minimize disruptions of
government, social, or economic activities.
Area Command - answer✔An organization established to oversee the management of multiple
incidents that are each being handled by a separate Incident Command System organization or to
oversee the management of a very large or evolving incident that has multiple incident
management teams engaged.
Assessment - answer✔The process of acquiring, collecting, processing, examining, analyzing,
evaluating, monitoring, and interpreting the data, information, evidence, objects, measurements,
images, sound, etc., whether tangible or intangible, to provide a basis for decision-making.
Allocated Resources - answer✔Resources dispatched to an incident.
Assigned Resources - answer✔Resources checked in and assigned work tasks on an incident.
Assignment - answer✔Task given to a personnel resource to perform within a given operational
period that is based on operational objectives defined in the Incident Action Plan.
Assisting Agency - answer✔An agency or organization providing personnel, services, or other
resources to the agency with direct responsibility for incident management. Also, called
Supporting Agency.
Available Resources - answer✔Resources assigned to an incident, checked in, and available for a
mission assignment, normally located in a Staging Area.
Badging - answer✔The assignment of physical incident-specific credentials to establish
legitimacy and limit access to various incident sites.
Branch - answer✔The organizational level having functional or geographical responsibility for
major aspects of incident operations. A Branch is organizationally situated between the Section
Chief and the Division or Group in the Operations Section, and between the Section and Units in
the Logistics Section. Branches are identified by the use of Roman numerals or by functional
area.
Cache - answer✔A predetermined complement of tools, equipment, and/or supplies stored in a
designated location, available for incident use.
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Camp - answer✔A geographical site within the general incident area (separate from the Incident
Base) that is equipped and staffed to provide sleeping, food, water, and sanitary services to
incident personnel.
Categorizing Resources - answer✔The process of organizing resources by category, kind, and
type, including size, capacity, capability, skill, and other characteristics. This makes the resource
ordering and dispatch process within and across organizations and agencies, and between
governmental and nongovernmental entities, more efficient, and ensures that the resources
received are appropriate to their needs.
Certifying Personnel - answer✔The process of authoritatively attesting that individuals meet
professional standards for the training, experience, and performance required for key incident
management functions.
Chain of Command - answer✔The orderly line of authority within the ranks of the incident
management organization.
Check-In - answer✔The process through which resources first report to an incident.
Chief - answer✔The Incident Command System title for individuals responsible for management
of functional Sections:
Command - answer✔The act of directing, ordering, or controlling by virtue of explicit statutory,
regulatory, or delegated authority.
Command Staff - answer✔The staff who report directly to the Incident Commander, including
the Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Liaison Officer, and other positions as required.
They may have an assistant or assistants, as needed.
Common Operating Picture - answer✔An overview of an incident by all relevant parties that
provides incident information enabling the Incident Commander/Unified Command and any
supporting agencies and organizations to make effective, consistent, and timely decisions.
Complex - answer✔Two or more individual incidents located in the same general area and
assigned to a single Incident Commander or to Unified Command.
Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101 - answer✔A guide designed to assist jurisdictions with
developing operations plans. It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of
planning and decision-making to help emergency planners examine a hazard and produce
integrated, coordinated, and synchronized plans.
