IS-700 Practice Test: An Introduction to NIMS

39 practice questions on the three NIMS components, EOCs, MAC Groups, the Joint Information System, resource typing and mutual aid. We wrote them ourselves from FEMA's own NIMS and NRF documents, so you learn the material instead of memorizing an answer list. Practice tests are 25 questions at FEMA's 75% pass mark.

The real test: 25 questions. 19 right (76%) passes.

Here: 39 questions. Our own practice questions, written from FEMA's National Incident Management System (Third Edition, 2017) and National Response Framework (Fourth Edition, 2019), both U.S. government works. Not FEMA's exam questions. Free.

What's on the test

10 sample questions

1. What are the three major components of NIMS?

   • A.Federal, State and Local
   • B.Prevention, Response and Recovery
   • C.Resource Management; Command and Coordination; Communications and Information Management
   • D.Planning, Logistics and Finance
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   C. Resource Management; Command and Coordination; Communications and Information Management

   700-1 · NIMS structures and principles

2. Which tool is the online catalog of NIMS resource typing definitions?

   • A.The Resource Typing Library Tool (RTLT)
   • B.The National Response Framework's ESF annexes
   • C.The Stafford Act
   • D.The ICS 214
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   A. The Resource Typing Library Tool (RTLT)

   700-7 · Resource management and mutual aid

3. What are the NIMS guiding principles?

   • A.Prevention, protection and mitigation
   • B.Speed, cost and size
   • C.Federal control, state support and local action at every incident
   • D.Flexibility, standardization and unity of effort
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   D. Flexibility, standardization and unity of effort

   700-2 · NIMS structures and principles

4. What does NIMS resource management cover?

   • A.Only volunteers
   • B.Personnel, equipment, supplies, teams and facilities, before and during incidents
   • C.Only money
   • D.Only federal equipment
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   B. Personnel, equipment, supplies, teams and facilities, before and during incidents

   700-8 · Resource management and mutual aid

5. Which of these is NOT one of the NIMS command and coordination structures?

   • A.Multiagency Coordination Groups
   • B.The Incident Command System
   • C.Emergency Operations Centers
   • D.The Stafford Act
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   D. The Stafford Act

   700-3 · NIMS structures and principles

6. Why does NIMS qualify, certify and credential personnel?

   • A.To limit who may volunteer at an incident to people already employed by a government agency
   • B.So personnel are prepared to do their incident jobs to standard criteria nationwide
   • C.Only for federal employees
   • D.To replace state professional licenses with one national federal license for all responders
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   B. So personnel are prepared to do their incident jobs to standard criteria nationwide

   700-9 · Resource management and mutual aid

7. What does a MAC Group usually do?

   • A.Writing press releases
   • B.Policy-level decisions, such as prioritizing incidents and allocating scarce resources
   • C.Running the Staging Area and checking in every resource that arrives at the incident site
   • D.Tactical direction of field crews, including assigning them to Divisions and Groups on scene
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   B. Policy-level decisions, such as prioritizing incidents and allocating scarce resources

   700-4 · NIMS structures and principles

8. What is resource typing?

   • A.Pricing resources
   • B.Defining and categorizing incident resources by capability
   • C.Listing resources alphabetically
   • D.Labeling resources by the agency or jurisdiction that owns them
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   B. Defining and categorizing incident resources by capability

   700-14 · Resource management and mutual aid

9. What is the Joint Information System (JIS) for?

   • A.Coordinated, accurate public information from all the agencies involved
   • B.Tracking payroll
   • C.Ordering supplies
   • D.Sharing tactical radio frequencies
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   A. Coordinated, accurate public information from all the agencies involved

   700-5 · NIMS structures and principles

10. Which is the most capable?

    • A.A Type 3 resource
    • B.A Type 1 resource
    • C.A Type 2 resource
    • D.A Type 4 resource
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    B. A Type 1 resource

    700-15 · Resource management and mutual aid

What the study guide does

• Short study rounds and flip cards.
• A practice test built like the real one: 25 questions, 19 to pass.
• Pass Meter: your chance of passing if you sat the test today, worked out from your own answers.
• An explanation for every answer.