Deck 2: The Emergency Planning Process: Mandates, Structure and Guidelines

Question 1

Informal planning process may apply to recurring threats and implemented by fire and police departments.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Adoption of NIMS is a condition to receive federal funding for state and local organizations.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Risk reduction analysis is the actions needed to decrease the levels of danger and the resources needed for effective action.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Task assignments are function of threat issues.

Question 5

Examining hazard vulnerability is the last step in the planning process.

Question 6

In the emergency planning process, groups only perform one specialized task based on their services.

Question 7

Management structure defines the authority and reporting relationships among organizations.

Question 8

Gaseous releases can only be controlled by ventilation.

Question 9

A formal process provides value in the following ways, except

A) Defines vulnerability
B) Ensures funding for resources
C) Increases back-up safety systems
D) Ensures training and exercises

Question 10

This standard can be used to assess and improve existing programs:

A) NIMS
B) NFPA 1600
C) EOP
D) NFPA 1200

Question 11

The analysis of the actions necessary to decrease known or projected levels of danger associated with a threat is:

A) Risk reduction analysis
B) Resource analysis
C) Acceptable risk assessment
D) Mitigation analysis

Question 12

The amount of risk exposure that individuals, organizations, or jurisdictions deem appropriate to tolerate is:

A) Risk analysis
B) Acceptable risk
C) Threat assessment
D) Mitigation analysis

Question 13

A milestone in the planning process is:

A) Secure funding
B) Assembling a planning team
C) Training responders
D) Securing equipment

Question 14

The first step in the planning process is:

A) Revising or evaluating the plan
B) Examining hazard vulnerability
C) Establishing task assignments
D) Assigning roles and responsibilities

Question 15

A facility's emergency assessment:

A) Gauges the consequences of the threat's immediate impact
B) Projects the prospect for long-term damage
C) Determines the economic viability of the business
D) Makes recommendations on who in the business should be in charge of emergency plans

Question 16

What is spill control?

Question 17

Planning process varies among communities with big communities usually having a ___________ process.

Question 18

NIMS is centrally controlled by ____________________________________.

Question 19

____________________ are produced from addressing agent and response-generated demands

Question 20

What is a NIMS Integration Center?

Question 21

What should a Hazard Vulnerability Analysis (H/VA) address?

Question 22

What are the milestones in the planning process?