IMS 100

IMS 100 Test

Thank you for joining us today for IMS-100.
There are 20 questions below, multiple choice and is open book. Must correctly answer 16/20.
Test will be available until 5:00pm today.

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Ron Realesmith
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1: What contributed to the development of the Incident Management System (IMS)?

A. The need for responders from different services, disciplines, and jurisdictions to work together.

B. A focus on ‘Management’ instead of ‘Consensus’.

C. The need to move away from command and control.

2: The vision for IMS in Ontario is:

A. Each of Ontario’s diverse responder organization will have an independent incident management system that suites their functions only.

B. As time goes by each organization, in turn, gets to impose its IMS.

C. Ontario will have a standardized incident management system that provides functional interoperability at all levels of emergency management.

3: IMS is predicated on:

A. The understanding that in any and every incident, there are certain management functions that must be carried out regardless of the number of persons who are available or involved in the emergency response.

B. Five principles.

C. Fifteen concepts.

4: What is Interoperability?

A. Interoperability is the ability (technological and functional) of responders to interact and work well together.

B. One’s internal operational ability.

C. The ability to operate effectively between operations.

5: The functions that directly support Command are:

A. Information, Publicity, and Spokespersons.

B. Information, Cooperation, and Assistance.

C. Emergency Information, Liaison, and Safety.

6: The Planning function entails:

A. Collecting, collating, and disseminating incident information.

B. Managing the planning process including preparing and documenting the Incident Action Plan for each operational period.

C. All of the above.

7: The General Staff is comprised of:

A. Generally, all staff within the IMS organizational structure.

B. All Section Chiefs (i.e. the Chiefs of Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance & Administration Sections).

C. Staff who perform functions of a general nature.

8: Describe a Division:

A. An organizational component assigned to a specific geographical area.

B. The head of a Division is called a Supervisor.

C. All of the above

9: Which is true of an IAP?

A. An IAP must always be written

B. An IAP may be oral or written

C. An IAP can never change

10: What is the Operational Period?

A. An Operational Period is the time period of time assigned to achieve the objectives of an Incident Action Plan.

B. It can be of varied length, though usually would not be longer than 24 hours.

C. All of the above

11: Resources include:

A. Personnel, equipment, apparatus, supplies and facilities available for incident tasks.

B. Personnel, equipment, apparatus, supplies and facilities that may be Out-of-Service.

C. Personnel, equipment, apparatus, supplies and facilities assigned to incident tasks.

D. All of the above.

12: Resources are defined by:

A. Kind and Category.

B. Size and Type.

C. Colour, capacity, and description.

D. Kind and Type.

13: A main focus of internal information management is:

A. To protect information.

B. To enable incident personnel to share a common operating picture.

C. To ensure that only management gets the information.

D. None of the above.

14: Emergency information includes:

A. Information about an emergency that is disseminated primarily in anticipation of an emergency or during an emergency.

B. In addition to providing situational information to the public, it also frequently provides directive actions required to be taken by the public.

C. Both A and B.

D. None of the above.

15: Specific terms and standard symbols are used to identify incident facilities so that:

A. They won’t get lost.

B. All responders immediately recognize and understand the functions of each facility.

C. They remain fixed.

D. All of the above.

16: An incident facility specifically designated, and from which is coordinated emergency information activities such as: press releases, receiving public queries, media briefings, and monitoring, is called:

A. The press box.

B. An Emergency Information Centre (EIC).

C. The scrum room.

D. Any of the above.

17: The transfer of Incident Command from one responder to another:

A. Should never happen.

B. Must always occur to give everyone some experience.

C. May occur due to expansion or contraction of the incident, or on the direction from a higher authority.

D. IS looked upon as shirking one’s responsibilities.

18: Unified command may be set up when:

A. A Strike Team Leader cannot agree with the Incident Commander and so decision-making must be shared.

B. Unity needs to be demonstrated.

C. Legal responsibility regarding an incident is shared and decisions need to be made jointly by two or more jurisdictions.

D. None of the above.

19: One of the first responsibilities of all operational resources arriving at an incident is to:

A. Deploy immediately to a task of one’s own choosing and commence operations.

B. Check-in – which may be as simple as announcing a unit’s arrival by radio, approaching the Incident Commander, or completing a sign-in sheet.

C. Go to the Base and establish exactly where all the support facilities are located for future reference.

D. None of the above.

20: The activities of checking-in, briefing, debriefing, and demobilization (among others) are aids towards ensuring:

A. Unity of Command

B. Proper resource management

C. Accountability

D. All of the above.