Deck 14: The Life of the Emergency Planning Process

Question 1

To survive into the future, the emergency manager must give way to the emergency management team True of False?

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The National Fire Protection Association was the first to recognize emergency management as a critical function.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

There are 56 university-based centers that focus on management and disasters.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Emergency managers have total immunity from legal liability.

Question 5

Very few states have some form of statutory immunity for emergency management activities.

Question 6

The generally low priority of emergency management could drop further because of the increase in the national debt and budget restrictions at state and local levels.

Question 7

Information technology applied to emergency management can be used to support disaster recovery.

Question 8

The aspects of professions that help define the professional status of emergency management include the following:

A) There are many professional associations for emergency management
B) There popularity of the field
C) The political importance the field has during times of disasters.
D) The amount of money emergency managers are paid.

Question 9

FEMA has undertaken three paths to define and influence the use of the emergency management body of knowledge, these include the following, except:

A) Through practitioner direct study
B) Build its own school focuses solely on emergency management
C) Created specific courses with emergency management content available online.
D) Compiled and circulated a list of college level programs.

Question 10

Future disasters are likely, in general, to:

A) be less frequent than previous years
B) be less costly than past disasters
C) be more costly than past disasters
D) be followed by a recovery that is fully funded by the federal government

Question 11

Emergency managers can face legal liability under the following conditions, except

A)A liability claim is brought for damages in connection with quarantine.
B)When there is absence of a mandated plan
C)Competence or effectiveness of a plan is brought into question.
D)Just having a plan is not sufficient to argue immunity from claims.

Question 12

In the future, emergency managers can expect the following:

A) Fewer technological accidents
B) Interdependencies in infrastructure
C) Fewer natural disasters
D) Reduced costs of disaster recovery

Question 13

What technological advance provides a better way to store and retrieve data about property parcels and infrastructure?

A) Excel
B) GIS
C) The Internet
D) Access

Question 14

An independent authority established to devise standards and create a review process for academic programs is a:

A) Certified emergency manager
B) Accrediting body
C) Certifying body
D) Body of knowledge

Question 15

Most practitioners would agree that emergency management is a profession.

Question 16

What is signal value?

Question 17

The largest number of certificates related to emergency management are offered in _____________specialties.

Question 18

A key credential for practicing managers and planners is IAEM's ____________________.

Question 19

With few schools offering degrees current efforts of FEMA and IEMA will mature into an _____________system for degree programs in emergency management.

Question 20

Degree programs are a link between people in the field and _____________.

Question 21

What are the two areas of legal liability that emergency managers are concerned with and why?

Question 22

What are the three qualities that make a profession?