12 - Communications and Information Management

Question 1

The ability to access all required information for effectively managing an incident. It is similar to the common operational picture.

Answer 1

Situational awareness

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Question 2

The two primary goals of the Communications and Information Management section of NIMS are as follows:

• Develop ____________ that support organizations at the local, state and federal level to operate with a COP.
• Develop ________ __________ for communications and data to support incident management technologies.

Answer 2

• technologies
• common standards

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Question 3

____ is defined by NIMS as an overview of an incident created by collating and gathering information.

Answer 3

COP

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Question 4

The development of a successful COP requires __________, _________ communications systems.

Answer 4

interoperable, redundant

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Question 5

Standardized communications types are divided into ________, ________, ______, and _____ _________ communications.

Answer 5

strategic, tactical, support, and public address

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Question 6

Information is vital to assist the Incident Command (IC), Unified Command (UC) and supporting agencies and organizations in making decisions, including incident ____________, _________, and _______ reports; _________ data; and __________ information.

Answer 6

notification, situation, and status; analytical; geospatial

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Question 7

During incident response activities, ______ traffic should be restricted to those messages necessary for effective execution of emergency management/response personnel tasks.

Answer 7

radio

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