Certified DoD All-Source Analysis (CDASA) Practice Test

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• Incremental information presented over time will not necessarily attenuate perceptual bias unless the pieces of information are analyzed as a whole.
• Which items are included in SRC endnotes?
• Which concept uses the primary question and subquestions to guide the review of current, relevant information?
• Dwell time is defined as:
• Misconception of chance occurs when people believe that a short random sequence reflects the properties of the underlying process.
• Source Operations missions may develop information through the direct and indirect questioning of overt or clandestine sources.
• The tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of possible alternative hypotheses:
• Within the NJOIC Alert Center, an IWG is established to provide focused coverage of crisis requirements. What does IWG stand for?
• Which factor does not influence perceptual judgments?
• What does the term 'Structured analytical techniques' refer to?
• IMINT may be used to update GCCS-I3 databases.
• ___________________ is particularly important when major judgments must contend with significant uncertainties, or complexity (e.g., forecasting future trends), or when low probability events could produce high-impact results.
• Which statement best describes perception?
• Which statement accurately describes the National Security Council's role?
• To predict by selecting the outcome that is most representative of the input.
• Which statement best describes WMU's relationship to Write-to-Release?
• The term GCCS-I3 refers to the integration of imagery and intelligence within the Global Command and Control System.
• Which statement about the Joint force J-2's relationship with national intelligence organizations is accurate?
• Applied IBEI supports the identification of individuals and their disposition at the point of encounter.
• Which technique uses structured brainstorming to identify change agents, those things that could alter a situation or question under assessment?
• Which best describes how uncertainties should be treated in major judgments?
• When creating derivative documents, what must be carried forward?
• Step Two of the JIPOE process includes describing the impact of the OE on both adversary and friendly capabilities and broad COAs.
• The Joint Foreign Materiel Program Office is the primary DoD contingency TECHINT capability that also manages the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Center (JCMEC). Which organization houses this program office?
• _________ is a likeness or presentation of any natural or man-made feature or related object or activity and the positional data acquired at the same time the likeness. It is used extensively to update GEOINT foundation data and serves as GEOINT's primary source of information when exploited through IMINT.
• Which discipline includes exploitation of imagery data derived from electro-optical sensors, radar, infrared, multispectral, and laser sensors?
• The focal point for tasking the production of baseline strategic intelligence analysis in support of current and planned joint operations, as per established DIAP procedures, is which combination of organizations?
• DIA produces a Theater Intelligence Assessment and Dynamic Threat Assessment (DTA) and continuously updates it in support of JIPOE. Which option correctly names these products?
• Which CCMD directorate coordinates the intelligence effort of subordinate commands?
• Define PIRs
• Applied IBEI supports the identification of individuals and their disposition at the point of encounter.
• True or False: The DNI Director shall confirm and direct the application of these Analytic Standards by IC elements in analytic intelligence products.
• JIPOE and IPB products are generally the same in purpose, focus, and level of detail.
• ICD 206 applies to those disseminated analytic product types (or product lines) developed by the __________.
• Which statement correctly describes derivative classification markings?
• What component of Analytic design fits best with the following concept: Determine what analysis has provided as an 'answer' to the question. Build an argument map to understand the strength of the case supporting the judgment.
• Service S&TI centers are the sole entities responsible for SIGINT processing, exploitation, and analysis.
• Making basic assumptions and reasoning explicit helps analysts to challenge their validity.
• Which of the following is listed as a Structured Analytic Technique (SAT) for framing and development?
• Which statement best describes the conditions under which information may be originally classified?
• Analytic products should present a clear main analytic message up front. Products containing multiple judgments should have a main analytic message that is drawn collectively from those judgments. All analytic judgments should be effectively supported by relevant intelligence information and coherent reasoning. This is the key definition of which analytical tradecraft standard.
• Which technique focuses on the journalism questions who, what, where, when, why, and how to generate lists of relevant topics and ideas?
• Geospatial information refers to data describing the geographic location of features on Earth.
• Analytic design is an integrated process for developing ______ for the intelligence question.
• In analytic assessment, which concept evaluates whether available sources are optimized for collecting information relevant to the stated question by comparing incoming reporting to required criteria?
• Conscious application of tools and techniques in the analytical tradecraft toolkit helps improve the workings of our own minds.
• The relationship between IMINT and GCCS-I3 is that IMINT data may be used to update GCCS-I3 databases.
• If a source is directly cited in product text, the source descriptor should appear in the product text.
• Which component of Analytic Design focuses on ensuring core techniques are integrated into sensemaking to maintain analytic rigor?
• Which elements are essential when transitioning from analytic design to client communication?
• Which term identifies the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on the Earth?
• What elements comprise the Resource Picture phase?
• In argument mapping, what is placed at the top of the tree?
• What will WMU use, in addition to new techniques, to protect intelligence sources and methods while still providing insight?
• Analysts should engage with collectors through
• Which items, if disclosed, could reasonably be expected to cause damage to national security?
• Analytic design ends with an analytic assessment that includes a judgment explaining how analytic findings address the ______, the confidence level associated with that judgment, and plausible ______ or explanations for gaps and uncertainty.
• During issue development, what do you do when you don't have an intelligence question?
• The term that explains why current information does not satisfy the requirement is:
• One key to successful learning is memorization.
• ICD ________ establishes fundamental intelligence production principles and a common perspective from which to plan, organize, write, and disseminate intelligence products.
• Which option best describes the core components of argument mapping?
• An assessment of intelligence and CI capabilities of all assigned or apportioned intelligence assets available to support the operation and required capabilities neither assigned nor apportioned.
• Which of the following best describes how major judgments should address uncertainty to reduce ambiguity?
• Which establishes the requirements for sourcing information in disseminated analytic products?
• JIPOE products provide the foundation for the J-2's intelligence estimate. Which phase do they primarily support?
• JIPOE helps identify which three types of requirements?
• What is the main objective of the JIPOE process?
• Step One is described as focusing attention on a geographic area within the operational environment for adversary, terrain, and weather analysis.
• Which statement describes the purpose of the Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP) in relation to JIPOE production?
• The CCMD plan is supported by a plan detailing how the intelligence capabilities of CSAs, Services, and other DOD Intelligence Enterprise organizations will be employed to meet the CCDR's stated intelligence requirements. What is this supporting plan called?
• Issue development includes tools and frameworks to help generate client-relevant initiative questions for analysis.
• Which commander plans, integrates, and coordinates ISR in support of strategic and global operations and advocates for ISR capabilities?
• Which statement about objectivity is accurate?
• JIPOE is a dynamic process. True or false?
• For theater campaigns, DIA produces a TIA. Which of the following is produced by DIA for theater campaign plans?
• FFIRs focus on which group?
• Which statement best describes STEEPM as a domain heuristic?
• Which document's section defines the categories of information for classification under EO 13526?
• True or False: Information shall not be considered for classification unless its unauthorized disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national security.
• Who is described as responsible for confirming and directing the application of these Analytic Standards by IC elements in analytic intelligence products?
• Which component describes the plan to develop knowledge and fill gaps before collection?
• Which technique is used to protect intelligence sources and methods while still providing insight?
• What is the definition Four Ways of Seeing?
• ______ is fundamentally a mental process, but understanding this process is hindered by lack of conscious awareness of the workings of our own minds.
• Which elements must SRC endnotes include?
• Which term completes the sentence: ______ use relevant data in predetermined frameworks to achieve objective, externalized insight into a problem, or question (e.g. Decision tree or back-casting)?
• Analytic products should incorporate_______________to clarify an analytic message and to complement or enhance the presentation of data and analysis.
• Which analytic design element governs the scheduling of analysis, drafting, and editing activities to ensure timely production of outputs?
• A JRIC does not have an intelligence production and training capability.
• Which of the following describes the part of critical thinking that involves evaluating source quality and weighing hypotheses?
• Four Ways of Seeing is defined as which of the following?
• Which body assists the USD(I) with respect to coordinating ISR capabilities and related developmental activities of DoD components and CCMDs?
• Which statement best describes the time-phased nature of the JIPOE approach?
• Which statute gave the DNI authority over the intelligence budget, resource-shifting powers, and personnel decisions for top leadership positions in the IC outside of DoD?
• Who advises the DNI on the development of and updates to the NIPF as well as identifies adjustments made to collection and analysis activities in response to NIPF changes?
• For a source directly cited in product text, the source descriptor is an option to appear in product text and be clearly associated.
• Who is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense on all intelligence, counterintelligence (CI), security, and related intelligence matters?
• The National Security Act of ______ created the framework for the Intelligence Community.
• Which analytic design component corresponds to backwards planning from the due date to determine the time available for collection, analysis, and production?
• Which two entities are involved in federated intelligence support architecture?
• Which DoD official exercises the Secretary of Defense's authority, direction, and control over DoD agencies and field activities related to defense intelligence, CI, security policy, planning, and programs?
• Which activity is included in the Methodology Building component?
• Which element normally manages the intelligence collection, production, analysis, and dissemination for a joint force?
• Executing the collection plan from methodology building is used to bring in new, relevant information for analysis. Which concept does this describe?
• The ______ of a product includes an analytic assessment that describes how analytic line has changed or moved forward, and how the analytic assessment impacts the intended client (i.e. What it means for decisions the client has to make and issues the client monitors or focuses on).
• Which WMU principle requires adherence to ICD 203 Analytic Standards and ICD 206 Sourcing Requirements regardless of classification?
• What are the best Structured Analytic Techniques (SATs) to employ during the Perform Analysis phase of Analytical Design?
• A pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations.
• ICD Analytic Standards shall be applied to every analytic product.
• Which groups provide intelligence and counterintelligence support for departmental missions related to military systems, equipment, and training?
• ODNI exercises control over four national centers: NIC, NCE, NCTC, and NCPC. Which organization is NOT one of these centers?
• FEI results from forensic material; This informs a decision maker's information needs with individualized information concerning events, ideology, and persons of interest.
• IMINT stands for:
• The J-2's intelligence estimate provides vital information required by the joint force staff to complete their estimates, and for subordinate commanders to continue concurrent planning activities. This information is most closely associated with which JIPOE function?
• Which factors are considered when assessing collection asset availability and capability?
• Which term refers to location-based data and mapping products resulting from imagery analysis?
• Mind-sets are __________; they are unavoidable.
• DIA has prepositioned deployable, large-bandwidth, secure satellite communications packages at each CCMD regional support center.
• Who has authority over the national intelligence budget and the ability to shift resources among agencies outside the DoD?
• What does the acronym JISE stand for in the defense intelligence architecture?
• JIPOE provides the basic data and assumptions to identify intelligence requirements, information requirements, and collection requirements. Which phase of the intelligence process does this support?
• GEOINT enables area familiarization and monitoring when properly maintained.
• When properly maintained and ready for access, GEOINT enables area familiarization, area monitoring for Indications and Warnings, feasibility assessment, preliminary planning, peacetime operations, and emergency operations worldwide.
• Cognitive bias results from emotional or intellectual predisposition toward a certain judgment.
• Which component best matches the concept of using a back-plan from the resource picture to schedule when activities like analysis, drafting, and editing should occur to meet the LTIOV?
• Which statement correctly describes perception when expectations are involved?
• Which statement is correct about generating an SRC when a source is directly cited in product text?
• Which term refers to the process of constructing a personal version of reality from sensory input?
• GCCS-I3 is a database resident within GCCS for imagery and intelligence.
• JIPOE supports the development of an optimal intelligence collection strategy by enabling analysts to identify the time, location, and type of anticipated activity for each potential adversary or other actor COA. This best describes which function?
• What are FFIRs?
• What is the primary purpose of structured analytic techniques (SATs) in intelligence analysis?
• Which is intelligence produced by exploiting foreign communications systems and noncommunications emitters?
• We devote a lot of attention in our thinking.
• Intelligence has two critical features that distinguish it from information.
• Developing critical subquestions that provide context using decomposition is the key issue under which topic?
• What is the definition of Idea Generation?
• Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in the four-step JIPOE process?
• Biases in judgment reveal some heuristics of thinking under:
• Exploitation of adversary equipment excludes certain categories of media from exploitation.
• What does the acronym JPP stand for in the context of intelligence planning?
• When designing an analytic approach you may want or need to consider a specialized technique. Choosing an appropriate technique involves which of the following?
• Which center is described as an integrated Joint Staff J-2/J-3 (Operations) / J-5 (Strategic Plans and Policy) element that monitors the global situation on a continual basis and provides the CJCS and SecDef with a DoD planning and crisis-response capability?
• The basic framework for visualizing the operational environment is provided by geospatial information.
• Which component identifies the knowledge gaps that should be addressed through targeted research?
• The JIPOE process provides a disciplined yet dynamic time-phased methodology for optimizing the ______ of large amounts of data.
• A mental model is a framework that shapes how new information is interpreted.
• Gaps and assumptions identified in the evaluate analysis phase should be highlighted as limitations to and change agents for the analytic assessment.
• Which principle means that an intelligence product shall be conceived and structured to increase their potential for tailored reuse?
• Counterintelligence conducts operations to identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, sabotage, or assassinations conducted for or on behalf of foreign powers.
• Which is intelligence and technical information derived from collecting and processing intercepted foreign communications passed by radio, wire, or other electromagnetic means?
• Analytic products should indicate and explain the basis for the uncertainties associated with major analytic judgments, specifically ______ of occurrence of an event or development, and the ______ in the basis for this judgment.
• Which term best describes the general phenomenon of systematic deviations in judgment that occur under certain conditions?
• Analytical assumption is one part of a mental model or mind-set.
• All analytic judgments should be effectively supported by what two elements?
• JIPOE is used to support the Joint Force Commander's decisionmaking by determining probable intent and most likely COAs for the adversary and other relevant actors.
• DOMEX is an application that assists in the exploitation of captured documents and media that, when processed, may provide valuable information such as adversary plans, intentions, locations, capabilities, and status.
• Receiving information in small increments over time facilitates assimilation into existing views.
• DIA manages the Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP) and provides direction and deconfliction for JIPOE intelligence production support by Service Intelligence Centers. Is this statement true or false?
• What is the purpose of deconfliction in JIPOE intelligence production?
• Key assumptions check is a technique used to identify weaknesses such as gaps in reasoning, implicit assumptions, and leaps in logic.
• Which statement best describes the output focus of analytic design in this framework?
• Which term completes the sentence: ______ use relevant data in predetermined frameworks to achieve objective, externalized insight into a problem (e.g., Decision tree or back-casting)?
• A mind-set can color and constrain perception.
• Downgraded or sanitized copies of covered analytic products should contain sourcing information.
• The military members of the IC consist of how many defense agencies and how many Service intelligence organizations?
• This definition applies to which WMU principle: Regardless of classification level, products must adhere to ICD 203 Analytic Standards and ICD 206 Sourcing Requirements for Disseminated Analytic Products.
• Which Analytic Design component guides using critical gaps and the project timeline to decide updates or changes to the collection posture to acquire relevant information?
• Which option best exemplifies the analytic design areas where collaboration can improve analytic design?
• Does the DNI determine the overall priorities of top-level NIPF issues?
• The Ambiguity effect refers to which behavior?
• True or False: WMU principle of Timely electronic dissemination is always the goal: With minimal exception, IC elements shall disseminate intelligence product electronically.
• Which statement reflects the content of the Methodology Building component?
• Which component governs open-source research while ensuring OPSEC and INFOSEC compliance and safe Internet usage?
• Analytic products should clearly __________ statements that convey underlying intelligence information used in analysis from statements that convey assumptions or judgments.
• Which term refers to intelligence derived from the interception and analysis of intercepted foreign communications?
• True or False: The concept of bounded rationality has come to be recognized widely, though not universally, both as an accurate portrayal of human judgment and choice and as a sensible adjustment to the limitations inherent in how the human mind functions.
• Which document is the intelligence annex that provides detailed information on the adversary situation and describes the concept of intelligence operations and procedures within a plan or order?
• The idea that new information is assimilated into existing images serves which principle?
• The first two steps of the JIPOE process provide a holistic view by analyzing the impact of the OE, assessing adversary doctrine and capabilities, and identifying adversary COGs and decisive points. Which statement is correct?
• Which body within the ODNI framework is associated with long-range strategic intelligence analysis and planning?
• Service S&TI centers play a critical role in processing, exploiting, and analyzing SIGINT data.
• Which of the following is NOT a function of the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency?
• The purpose of JIPOE is to support the JFC by determining the probable intent and most likely COA for the adversary and other relevant actors throughout the OE; IPB is designed to support component commands.
• Which description best captures the ODNI's role within the IC?
• OSINT is intelligence based on open-source information accessible to the public. The Director named as the functional manager for the IC is the which Director?
• Apply vetted techniques for foundational, leadership, science/technology, and other analytic disciplines. Which of the following applies to the aforementioned concept?
• The NIPF shall be published:
• What does the Dynamic Threat Assessment identify for top-priority plans?
• Which statement best describes the relationship to analysis regarding the most original source?
• Analysts may devise their own source descriptors for sources of publicly available information not obtained from an IC-produced open source report.
• IC elements shall review and where required revise their training programs to address explicitly how to maximize product utility.
• True or False: When people are alerted perception patterns are attenuated.
• Which date is specifically listed as part of the SRC endnotes elements?
• A mature analytic mind-set recognizes cognitive limitations and uses satisficing rather than maximizing.
• Which of the following is a component of the Perform Analysis Phase?
• Which of the following best describes the content expected in analytic design's final product?
• DTAs are updated as strategic factors in the operational environment change. Which factor is updated?
• DIA, through the ______ provides direction and deconfliction for JIPOE intelligence production support by Service intelligence centers. DIA also supports the JS J-2 in facilitating a CCDR's federated intelligence support in response to both deliberate and crisis action planning.
• What are the four mechanisms for presenting sourcing information in analytic products?
• IMINT can be used to update GCCS-I3 databases, and this is an established practice.
• MASINT includes three data sources: EO data, Radar data, and RF data. Which option lists these data sources?
• The CCDR, through the __________, identifies requirements for federated intelligence support to the JS J-2, which will facilitate the establishment of a federated intelligence support architecture. Select the correct answer.
• Information is of its greatest value when it contributes to the commander's decisionmaking process by:
• True or False: Know Your Customers and What They Need is one of the WMU principles.
• Mind mapping creates a visualization of ideas connected to a main topic in a tree-style diagram, with the primary topic placed at the center.
• Which type is primarily used by CCDRs and subordinate JFCs and their component commanders?
• Which technique is used to model how actors perceive themselves and each other in relation to an intelligence question?
• The covered analytic product with all appropriate sourcing information shall be retained as a document of record, along with associated downgraded, sanitized, or tearline products.
• When moving from Analytic Design to Communication, which issue best fits with the following concept: Determine the best format for production for adequate discussion of the argument supporting the assessment. Considerations for choosing format include the intended client, any specific tasking on a deliverable, the complexity of the supporting argument, urgency of client requirement, and potential interest across the broader client base.
• What best describes the Theater Intelligence Assessment (TIA)?
• Which of the following is the correct articulation of evaluate analysis components?
• Which term is used for intelligence derived from the interception and analysis of radar and other noncommunications emitters to assess adversary capabilities?
• IPB is designed to support the individual operations of the component commands.
• Who may exercise original classification authority?
• Which principle ensures that intelligence products are designed to be reused and tailored for future customers?
• Which option is not one of the four sourcing presentation mechanisms?
• Which category of intelligence is derived from information collected and provided by human sources?
• IC personnel or customers must be able co-discover intelligence, information and analyses that address their requirement or aid in mission accomplishment. Select the best answer.
• Agency heads are responsible for ensuring that designated subordinate officials have a demonstrable and continuing need to exercise Original Classification Authority.
• An appraisal, expressed in writing or orally, of available intelligence relating to a specific situation or condition with a view to determining the COAs open to the enemy or adversary and their order of probability of adoption.
• Initial exposure to blurred or ambiguous stimuli interferes with accurate perception even after more and better information becomes available.
• Step Four of the JIPOE process develops a rough understanding of the adversary's intent and future strategy. Which statement best reflects this?
• The Dynamic Threat Assessment is produced by which organization?
• Which criterion requires that information be owned by, produced by/for, or under the control of the US Government to be eligible for classification?
• TECHINT is derived from the exploitation of foreign materiel and scientific information.
• What is the name of the analytical process used by joint intelligence organizations to produce intelligence estimates in support of the Joint Force Commander's decisionmaking?
• The goal of Writing for Maximum Utility (WMU) is to ensure that the IC produces intelligence that communicates the right information in the right form to the right people at the right time.
• Which of the following statements are correct about perceptual persistence when an analyst is committed to a view? Choose 'a, b, and c are correct' if applicable.
• During the framing stage of analytical design, which combination of SATs is most suitable to employ?
• Critical Thinking enables evaluative and deterministic activities in analysis such as:
• Regarding idea generation, which statement about domain heuristics like Starbursting is true?
• Under the DIA analytical design guidance, which phrase represents the framing components?
• To expect a sequence of events generated by a random process will represent essential characteristics of that process even when the sequence is short.
• Who develops and determines the annual budget for the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and monitors its implementation by the heads of IC member organizations?
• Which term is defined as the technical, geographic, and intelligence information derived through the interpretation or analysis of imagery and collateral materials?
• What is the systematic process of using interrogation approaches to question a captured or detained person in order to obtain reliable information to satisfy intelligence collection requirements?
• Which statement best describes how perception patterns can be influenced by prior exposure to information?
• An SRC should reference the most original source that presents the relevant information in a form appropriate for use in analysis.
• Which concept describes identifying what is already known to inform the analytical process and guide collection decisions?
• The use of simplifying strategies and rules of thumb leads to predictable faulty judgments known as cognitive biases.
• Which type is used by commanders, planners, and operators for planning and conducting battles, engagements, and special missions?
• Which component of Analytic Design best matches with the concept: Assign a confidence level to the judgment that reflects the credibility and reliability of sources, the remaining gaps and their impact on the judgment, the strength of the argument including the use of assumptions, and the rigor added by the use of analytic technique and methods.
• Which analytical technique would describe indicators that show one scenario is becoming more likely than others?
• Which factor is not listed as a factor in assessing collection asset availability?
• What does the acronym JIOC stand for in the defense intelligence architecture?
• Derivative classification training must be provided at least every how many years?
• The DIA Director USD(I) Reviews and advocates for intelligence capabilities of the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers and the Service Intelligence Centers, in coordination with the CCMDs and MILDEPs, to ensure mission performance is aligned with Defense priorities and consistent with national priorities.
• What term describes the authority to classify information at creation?
• GEOINT consists of the following components:
• The tendency to resist alternative viewpoints once an initial perception forms is an example of perceptual bias.
• Who has the authority to establish additional national intelligence centers when deemed necessary to address other intelligence priorities, such as regional issues?
• What is the primary source of information when GEOINT is exploited through IMINT?
• The avoidance of options for which missing information makes the probability seem unknown.
• The statement 'Mind-sets tend to form quickly and resist change' is true.
• The DNI has designated the USD(I) as his Director of Defense Intelligence (DDI).
• ICD 203 governs the production and evaluation of analytic products and delineates the role of the ODNI Analytic Ombuds.
• The CCMD relies on subordinate service centers to support exploitation activities.
• The basic JIPOE process remains the same across the range of military operations, regardless of the level of war. True or false?
• Which statement best captures the purpose of the Key Assumptions Check?
• What is the purpose of a Dynamic Threat Assessment?
• Step Two of the JIPOE process includes which elements?
• Idea Generation consists of which techniques?
• Moving from Analytic Design to Communication, what issue best fits with the concept: For authoritative assessments, answering the questions 'what if I am wrong?' And 'what could change my assessment?' Provides analysis of alternatives that should be included in a finished product to explain what remains uncertain.
• Which discipline involves the interpretation of imagery to produce intelligence, often supplemented by collateral materials?
• Cognitive biases are ____________ ____________ to intelligence analysis because they affect the evaluation of evidence, perception of cause and effect, estimation of probabilities, and retrospective evaluation of intelligence reports.
• JIOC stands for which organization?
• Which statement is true about ICD standards in WMU guidance?
• Which component fits Analytics Design when determining which critical gaps can be addressed with analyst-led research, ensuring OPSEC, INFOSEC, and safe open-source practices?
• An intelligence collection strategy is:
• Which documents formalize CCMD intelligence support relationships?
• The NJOIC integrates which Joint Staff directorates?
• Define EEIs
• Execute other analytic techniques or methods, including structured and quantitative analysis, selected in methodology building to deepen insight. Which of the following applies to the aforementioned concept?
• The process that integrates theater and national intelligence capabilities and synchronizes intelligence operations is called which plan?
• What is the primary purpose of the bin of divergent and convergent thinking tools?
• CCMD J-2 usually exercises staff supervision over the JIOC and coordinates the intelligence effort of subordinate commands.
• DIA provides an updated DTA to the CCMD prior to which activity?
• Which technique is described as a matrix that captures analyst knowledge of how actors who influence an intelligence question perceive themselves and each other?
• The J-2 staff continuously evaluates and updates in what phase of the intelligence process?
• Which involves the technical analysis of data intercepted from foreign equipment and control systems such as telemetry, electronic interrogators, tracking/fusing/arming/firing command systems, and video data links?
• Which statement is accurate about non-DoD IC members?
• FEI results from the collection, processing, analysis, and interpretation of forensic material and data, as well as associated contextual data. This informs a decision maker's information needs with individualized information concerning events, ideology, and persons of interest.
• Which analytic technique identifies weaknesses in the foundations of an argument for an analytic assessment when executed well?
• Which items are part of knowledge development according to the framework?
• Which statement best describes the relationship between JIPOE and DIAP procedures?
• GCCS-I3 stands for Global Command and Control System Integrated Imagery and Intelligence.
• Step Four of the JIPOE process is to determine adversary/actor COA.
• Which type of intelligence is produced for the President, the National Security Council, Congress, SecDef, senior military leaders, CCDRs, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies?
• Which phrase best captures the purpose of building an argument map in analytic design?
• Which center is the focal point for the CCMD's intelligence planning, collection management, analysis, and production effort, organized to satisfy the CCDR's intelligence requirements?
• In addition to the J-2 staffs at every joint level, which of the following is listed as a key defense intelligence architecture organization?
• Which term best describes the process of assigning a confidence level to a judgment taking into account source credibility and remaining gaps?
• I2 operations process results in discovery of true identities, links identities to events, locations and networks, and reveals hostile intent.
• Exploitation of adversary equipment, excluding computer storage media, video and digital recording media, and media equipment, is performed in the CCMD with the support of subordinate service centers.
• ODNI stands for which organization?
• IAW ICD 203, analysts must properly describe the ______ and ______ of underlying sources, data, and methodologies.
• If a crisis escalates, the Joint Staff J-2 may decide to form an _______.
• Which item is NOT listed as part of the Perform Analysis Phase?
• Analysts should support collection by
• Step Three of the JIPOE process identifies and evaluates the adversary's capabilities and limitations, current situation, COGs, and the doctrine, patterns of operation, and TTPs employed by adversary forces.
• Assess knowledge base for meaningful connections and patterns relevant to the intelligence question. Define the nature of the problem and ensure appropriate techniques/methods are selected.
• What are the characteristics of a good analytic question?
• Which statement best describes the purpose of incorporating visual information in analytic presentations?
• Analytic products should apply ______ and logic to make the most ______ and assessments possible, based on the information available and known information gaps.
• Which component is described as generating plausible alternatives to conclusions and identifying alternative hypotheses?
• In mind mapping, where does the primary topic or question typically go?
• The NISP is designed to do which of the following?
• Which term describes preplanned CCMD intelligence support relationships formed through OLANS, NISPs, or memorandums of agreement?
• Intelligence planning for rapid response to potential crises occurs as part of a command's overall ______.
• Structured analytic techniques (SATs) are:
• Which term describes the purpose of Four Ways of Seeing as a structured analytic technique?
• Which factor is considered when selecting production format?
• Which discipline encompasses intelligence obtained from both communications and noncommunications emitters, including both direct and indirect methods?
• What is the definition of Argument Mapping?
• All IC analytic products shall be consistent with the following statement.
• MASINT is information produced by quantitative and qualitative analysis of physical attributes of targets and events to characterize, locate, and identify them. It includes three data sources: EO data, Radar data, and RF data. Which discipline is MASINT?
• ICD ______ governs the production and evaluation of analytic products and delineates the role of the ODNI Analytic Ombuds.
• Judgments are defined as conclusions based on underlying intelligence information, analysis, and assumptions.
• True or False: The DNI is the principal advisor to the president on intelligence matters related to national security.
• What does WMU stand for?
• Which statement best describes the role of the 'confidence level' in analytic assessments?
• What is the definition of Key Assumptions Check?
• Which office supervises the intelligence alert center that supports the NMCC and keeps the CJCS apprised of foreign situations relevant to policy, objectives, and strategy?
• Which concept involves using the primary question, subquestions, and critical gaps to determine the subject matter expertise needed for effective analysis?
• The DNI has designated which official as his Director of Defense Intelligence (DDI) to facilitate coordination between the defense and other IC elements?
• In presenting analytic assessments to clients, clarifying relevance to the client and determining the best presentation helps ensure the assessment is well-supported and persuasive.
• Executive Order 13526 prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information, including information relating to defense against transnational terrorism. Which document is this?
• Who chairs the Military Intelligence Board?
• Which statement is accurate regarding the ODNI and DNI authority?
• Analytic products should provide information and insight on issues relevant to the _________ of U.S. intelligence and address the ___________ of the information and analysis they provide.
• Does the Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC) have an intelligence production and training capability?
• ICD 203 promotes four factors for the protection of privacy and civil liberties by ensuring the ______ used in analytic products.
• Past experience, education, cultural values, role requirements, and organizational norms, as well as the specifics of the information received, shape our perceptions.
• Which component of Analytic Design best matches the concept: Generate plausible alternatives to the analytic conclusions. Alternative hypotheses should be identified.
• The Joint Foreign Materiel Program Office is the primary DoD contingency TECHINT capability that also manages JCMEC. Which organization houses this office?
• Analytic products should state how their major judgments on a topic are _________ with or represent a ______ from those in previously published analysis, or represent initial coverage of a topic.
• Sourcing information enhances which attributes of intelligence analysis?
• NIPF stands for:
• Which of the following is NOT described as a JIPOE product?
• What is the primary purpose of CCMD intelligence support relationships preplanned in OLANS, NISPs, and MOAs?
• Geospatial information forms the basis for visualizing the operational environment.
• The purpose of the NIPF is to establish national intelligence priorities based on customer needs and identified gaps.
• Which is intelligence derived from the interception and analysis of noncommunications emitters (e.g., radar)?
• Use argument mapping or logical reasoning to determine if filling critical gaps or changing assumptions would change the judgment.
• Exploitation activities exclude computer storage media, video and digital recording media, and media equipment.
• __________ is the intelligence _______ to a plan or order that provides detailed information on the adversary situation, establishes priorities, assigns intelligence tasks, identifies required intelligence products, requests support from higher echelons, describes the concept of intelligence operations, and specifies intelligence procedures.
• Analytic Tradecraft Standards: how many are implemented and exhibited?
• Which statement about WMU is accurate regarding tailoring and customer requirements?
• Geospatial information does not provide the basic framework for visualizing the operational environment.
• Which option is NOT part of the knowledge development elements under the analytic design framework?
• Which statement best describes how joint intelligence organizations fuse data to provide a common, coordinated intelligence picture for the CCMD and subordinate joint forces?
• NCPC is an ODNI center dedicated to counterproliferation. What does NCPC stand for?
• According to ICD 203, analysts must perform their functions with __________ and with awareness of their own assumptions and __________. They must employ reasoning techniques and practical mechanisms that reveal and mitigate bias.
• For theater campaign plans, DIA produces a TIA. What does TIA stand for in this context?
• Which concept describes gaps where questions lack accessible, relevant information after comparing sources to the primary question?
• Cognitive biases are best described as.
• The DIA Director is responsible for representing and advocating CCMD views and intelligence requirements to the Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). True or False?