Hazards Risk Management - FEMA Training

Session No. 9
Course Title: Hazards Risk Management Session 9: Midterm Exam Time: 2 Hours Instructions: The instructor can select from among the following Essay, Multiple-Choice,
and Fill-in-the-Blank questions to create an exam that tests the students'
recall and comprehension. This material covers Sessions 2-8. It is
recommended that the exam require approximately 2 hours for students to
complete.
Essay Questions Session 2: Introduction to Risk Management 1. What are the similarities and differences that exist between hazard
risks we manage as individuals and those we manage at the community or
national level?
2. Why might individuals and societies choose to expose themselves to a
hazard risk when selecting a place to live or to form a settlement?
3. Describe the relationship that exists between the terms hazard, risk,
vulnerability, and disaster.
4. At what point can a hazard risk be considered "safe"? Session 3: Risk Management and the Greater Emergency Management Discipline 1. Session three describes nine factors that contribute to the unique
manner in which different countries' emergency management systems
develop. Select three of these and explain how they impact the nature
of a country's emergency management system.
2. What is meant by the term "Emergency Management," and why we need
emergency management systems?
3. Why do the poor countries receive the brunt of human impacts while the
rich countries feel them economically? Session 4: Hazards Risk Management in the United States 1. Describe three factors that contributed to the evolution of hazard
mitigation practices in the United States.
2. What is NEHRP and how does it work to decrease community risk?
3. What made Project Impact different from other Federal hazard
mitigation programs?
4. Discuss three major obstacles to effective hazards risk management. Session 5: Risk Management Lessons from the Private Sector 1. Who determines the acceptable level of risk for businesses?
2. What three factors have historically blocked close partnerships
between government and business in the area of risk management?
3. What is the role of the private sector in the National Response
Framework?
4. Why is it so important for businesses to conduct hazards risk
management? What is at stake? Session 6: Risk Management Lessons from Outside the United States 1. List the steps of the AS/NZS Risk Management Methodology and describe
in one sentence what each step entails.
2. Can the ISO risk management standard be applied to any organization,
or any individual, in their efforts to manage risk?
3. List and describe the steps involved in the ADPC Community-Based
disaster risk reduction process.
4. List and describe three techniques by which UN-HABITAT assesses risk. Session 7: A Hazards Risk Management Approach 1. What is meant by the term "systems approach"?
2. Describe the thought process individuals typically employ, either
consciously or subconsciously, that allows them to make decisions
about risk and to act upon those decisions. Session 8: The Mitigation Plan 1. Why do communities conduct mitigation planning?
2. What is gained through the mitigation planning process beyond the
existence of the actual plan?
3. What are the common components of a Hazard Mitigation Plan, and why
are they included in the plan?
4. Why does a mitigation plan include a description of the planning
process? Multiple-Choice Questions Answer each of the following multiple-choice questions. Session 2: Introduction to Risk Management
Hazard risks differ as a factor of which of the following?
4 How often they occur
5 The impacts they cause
6 *Both A and B
7 Neither A nor B
1. Which of the following is not a recent global disaster trend?
a. The number of people affected by disasters is rising
b. Overall, disasters are becoming more costly
c. The number of disasters is increasing each year
d. *Overall, disasters are becoming more deadly
2. Risk is a measure of likelihood and what other factor?
a. *Consequence
b. Resilience
c. Fatalities
d. None of the above
3. Disasters that develop slowly over time are termed which of the
following?
a. Latent
b. *Creeping
c. Delayed
d. Sudden-onset
4. Which of the following is defined as "the propensity to incur loss"?
a. Exposure
b. Risk
c. *Vulnerability
d. Resilience
Session 3: Risk Management and the Greater Emergency Management Discipline 1. Evidence of risk and emergency management practices can be dated as
far back as which of the following?
a. 12,000 BC
b. *3,200 BC
c. 200 AD
d. *1,300 AD
2. The particular period in recent history that witnessed the greatest
overall move toward a centralized safeguarding of citizens was which
of the following?
a. *The Civil Defense Era
b. The Great Depression
c. World War I
d. World War II
3. Which of the following is not one of the four phases of "Comprehensive
Emergency Management?"
a. Preparedness
b. *Risk Management
c. Response
d. Recovery
4. In 1978, at the request of the National Governors Association,
President Carter initiated the organization of a federal preparedness
program, which resulted in the creation of FEMA, through which of the
following?
a. *Reorganization Plan No. 3
b. P.L. 442
c. Presidential Decision Directive 12
d. None of the above
5. Which of the following was termed the "International Decade for
Natural Disaster Reduction"?
a. 1980-1989
b. 1985-1994
c. *1990-1999
d. 2005-2015
Session 4: Hazards Risk Management in the United States 1. The financial losses incurred as a result of Hurricane Betsy led to
the creation of which of the following?
a. The National Civil Defense Administration
b. The Department of Homeland Security
c. FEMA
d. *The National Flood Insurance Program
2. Which of the following is an NFIP incentive program?
a. *The Community Rating System
b. Story Ready Communities
c. Project Impact
d. All of the above
3. In 2000, Congress passed which of the following to encourage
mitigation planning at the State and local levels?
a. The National Flood Insurance Program
b. The Homeland Security Act of 2002
c. *The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2000)
d. The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
4. Which of the following mitigation programs is not dependent on a
disaster declaration?
a. *The Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program
b. The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
c. Both A and B
d. Neither A nor B
5. Which of the following is not an eligible applicant under the HMGP
a. State and local governments
b. Indian tribes or other tribal organizations
c. Non-profit organizations
d. *Citizens impacted by a declared disaster
Session 5: Risk Management Lessons from the Private Sector 1. Which of the following are vulnerable to significant legal liability
if they do not undertake emergency preparedness efforts?
a. *Corporations
b. Federal government agencies
c. Teachers
d. Family heads of household
2. Which of the following is the systemic understanding and management of
business operations within the context of the organization's culture,
beliefs, mission, objectives, and organizational structure?
a. Crisis Management
b. Organizational learning
c. Risk based decision-making
d. *Enterprise Management
3. Which of the following was established in April 1997 to seek
opportunities for government and private-sector organizations to work
together to develop new strategies to reduce vulnerability to natural
hazards?
a. *PPP 2000
b. HMGP
c. DMA1997
d. All of the above
4. Approximately how much of the nation's critical infrastructure is
owned by the private sector?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 65%
d. *85%
5. The NFPA standard that guides Business Continuity is referred to by
what number?
a. *1600
b. 2600
c. 3600
d. 5600 Session 6: Risk Management Lessons from Outside the United States 1. Which of the following is described in the AS/NZS Risk Management
Methodology as being "a two-way process to arrive at an acceptable
level of choice by which, on the one hand, the population is informed
of the risk, the assessment of what the risk entails, and how the risk
might be managed; and on the other hand, meeting with the population/s-
at-risk and taking into consideration their needs, issues and
concerns, and seeking their feedback and input into the risk analysis,
or risk estimation, process."
a. *Risk Communication
b. Hazard identification
c. Risk assessment
d. Monitoring
2. In 2009, the Australia / New Zealand Risk Management Standard were
used as the basis for the development of which of the following
international standards?
a. NFPA1600
b. *ISO 31000:2009
c. CIIAA2009
d. None of the above
3. The risk management approach developed by the Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center (ADPC) was given which of the following titles?
a. *Community-Based Disaster Management
b. Bottom-Up Risk Management
c. Grass-Roots Risk Planning Method
d. The International Disaster Management Standard
4. The foundation of community-based disaster mana