Enhance security and resilience through advance planning

The National Goal, “Enhance security and resilience through advance planning” relates to all of the following Call to Action activities EXCEPT:

A. Improve Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience by Advancing Research and Development Solutions

B. Promote Infrastructure, Community and Regional Recovery Following Incidents

C. Strengthen Coordinated Development and Delivery of Technical Assistance, Training and Education

D. Leverage Incentives to Advance Security and Resilience

E. Identify, Assess and Respond to Unanticipated Infrastructure Cascading Effects During and Following Incidents

2. ALL of the following statements directly to one of the seven NIPP 2013 core tenets EXCEPT:

A. The way infrastructure sectors interact shapes how the Nation’s critical infrastructure partners should collectively manage risk.

B. Managing risk requires sharing information, promoting efficient and effective use of resources and minimizing duplication of effort.

C. Security and resilience should be considered during the design of assets, systems and networks.

D. Hazard assessments draw on theoretical scenarios and deductive reasoning about future natural hazards to assess the likelihood or frequency of various hazards.

E. Partnerships are crucial to developing shared perspectives on gaps and actions to improve critical infrastructure security and resilience.

3. Make the following statement True by filling in the blank from the choices below: Regional organizations play an important partnership role in the critical infrastructure security and resilience community because they ____.

A. Have unique responsibilities, functions, or expertise in a particular critical infrastructure sector (such as GCC members) assist in identifying and assessing high-consequence critical infrastructure and collaborate with relevant partners to share security and resilience-related information within the sector, as appropriate.

B. Develop and implement security and resilience programs for the critical infrastructure under their control, while taking into consideration the public good as well.

C. Include a variety of public-private sector initiatives that cross jurisdictional and/or sector boundaries and focus on prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery within a defined geographic area.

D. Are crucial coordination hubs, bringing together prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery authorities, capabilities, and resources among local jurisdictions, across sectors, and between regional entities.

4. For what group of stakeholders are the following examples of activities suggested: Become involved in a relevant local, regional sector and cross-sector partnership; Work with private sector and emergency response partners on emergency management plans and exercising; Share success stories and opportunities for improvement.

A. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Government Executives

B. Private Sector Companies

C. First Responders

D. All of the Above

5. To which of the following critical infrastructure partners does PPD-21 assign the responsibility of leveraging support from homeland security assistance programs and reflecting priority activities in their strategies to ensure that resources are effectively allocated?

A. Regional, State, local, Tribal, and Territorial jurisdictions

B. Other Federal departments and agencies

C. Critical infrastructure owners and operators

D. The Department of Homeland Security

6. Which of the following NIPP Core Tenets statement is correct?

A. Gaining knowledge of infrastructure risk and interdependencies requires sharing classified information across the entire critical infrastructure community.

B. Understanding and addressing risks from cross-sector dependencies and interdependencies is essential to enhancing critical infrastructure security and resilience.

C. The partnership approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience recognizes the unique perspectives and competitive advantages of the diverse critical infrastructure community.

D. Risk should be identified and managed in a coordinated and comprehensive way across the critical infrastructure community to restrict allocation of security and resilience resources.

7. This forum comprises regional groups and coalitions around the country engaged in various initiatives to advance critical infrastructure security and resilience in the public and private sectors

A. Federal Senior Leadership Council (FSLC)

B. Sector Coordinating Councils (SCC)

C. Regional Consortium Coordinating Council (RC3)

D. State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Government Coordinating Council (SLTTGCC)

8. An understanding of criticality, essential functions and resources, as well as the associated interdependencies of infrastructure is part of this step in the Risk Management Framework:

A. Assess and Analyze Risks

B. Measure Effectiveness

C. Identify Infrastucture

D. Implement Risk Management Activities

E. Set goals

9. All of the following statements are Core Tenets of the NIPP EXCEPT:

A. Cross-jurisdictional collaboration

B. Cross-sector dependencies and interdependencies

C. Regional, State, Local, Tribal and Territorial partnerships

D. Competitive advantage in information sharing

10. PPD-21 prescribes Sector Specific Agencies with all of the following roles and responsibilities, EXCEPT:

A. Provide, support, or facilitate technical assistance and consultations for a specific sector to identify vulnerabilities and help mitigate incidents, as appropriate

B. Serve as a day-to-day Federal interface for the dynamic prioritization and coordination of sector-specific activities

C. Ensure that funding priorities are addressed and that resources are allocated efficiently and effectively

D. Carry out incident management responsibilities consistent with statutory authority and other appropriate policies, directives, or regulations