UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE REFRESHER COURSE
Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers
1. All serious security incidents must - ✔✔be reported to the OUSD(I) if they involve espionage,
unauthorized disclosure to the public
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UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE REFRESHER COURSE
Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers
1. All serious security incidents must - ✔✔be reported to the OUSD(I) if they involve espionage,
unauthorized disclosure to the public media or any incident where Congressional reporting may
be required, or any compromise of our most sensitive information, such as Sensitive
Compartmented Information, or SCI, or Special Access Programs, or SAPs.
2. Examples of damage caused by unauthorized disclosure. - ✔✔Puts lives at risk, undermines
ongoing and planned U.S. operations, damages intelligence community sources and methods,
incurs financial costs, impacts foreign policy, undermines the public's confidence and trust,
reduces technological advantage over adversaries.
3. Examples of sanctions that may be imposed. - ✔✔Loss of rank, fines, revocation of security
clearance, suspension without pay, termination of employment, and incarceration.
4. Select ALL the correct responses. Authorized recipients of classified information must have -
✔✔Signed SF-312, Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement (NdA)
Original classification authority
Favorable determinations of eligibility for access to classified information at the proper level
"Need-to-know" for the classified information
5. Who initiates the inquiry/investigation into DoD incidents of unauthorized disclosure? - ✔✔The
FBI
-The Component
6. Select ALL the correct responses. Which of the following will require a prepublication review? -
✔✔Publishing an article on the internet
Sending an article manuscript to the editor's support staff
Sending a memo to coworkers or supervisors
Submitting information to Congress
7. Prepublication review is NOT a declassification action; persons submitting material for review
must first ensure it is unclassified. - ✔✔True8. Protecting classified information from unauthorized disclosure by ensuring that the appropriate
classification, downgrading, and declassification instructions are respected and carried forward
from one or more source documents to a newly created classified document is the role of a(n)
___________________. - ✔✔Designated Classification Authority (DCA)
Derivative classifier
9. Which of the following are important elements of safeguarding classified information and
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)? - ✔✔xHandling
xStorage
Information System (IS) use
xReproduction and Destruction
Transmission and Transportation
10. You are a cleared DoD employee and you are contacted via telephone by a reporter asking for
information about a classified project. What should you do? - ✔✔Refer the reporter to your
Component's Public Affairs Office
11. Which of the following is a common misconception regarding unauthorized disclosure? - ✔✔The
Whistleblower Protection Act (PPD-19) protects employees who unlawfully disclose classified
information
12. You have a paper you would like to submit to a trade journal, which includes a chart containing
classified information. By submitting the paper for prepublication review, you can be assured
your article is declassified prior to publication. - ✔✔False
13. Derivative classifiers must ensure _____________. - ✔✔Information is downgraded to the
appropriate level at the appropriate time
Initial classification determinations are made appropriately
Proper classification markings appear on all classified information
14. The Whistleblower Protection Act (PPD-19) protects employees who unlawfully disclose
classified information - ✔✔False15. The term NDCI was coined to connote the seriousness of classified data spills. What does it
stand for? - ✔✔Negligent Discharge of Classified Information
16. Security managers and/or security officers must report a Negligent Discharge of Classified
Information (NDCI) to which of the following authorities? - ✔✔All
17. Prepublication review is NOT a declassification action; persons submitting material for review
must first ensure it is unclassified. - ✔✔True
18. Facility Security Officers (FSOs) report incidents of unauthorized disclosure, loss, compromise, or
suspected compromise of classified information, including spills or Negligent Discharge of
Classified Information (NDCI) incidents, to ______________. - ✔✔- Their Industrial Security
Representative (IS Rep)
19. ___________________________ must initially determine what level of damage would occur to
information if unauthorized disclosure of that information occurred. - ✔✔The Original
Classification Authority (OCA)
20. Which of the following are types of sanctions that may be applied to persons found responsible
for unauthorized disclosure? - ✔✔All
21. Cleared employees may view classified information that appears in the public domain, provided
they have an appropriate clearance and need to know. - ✔✔False
22. You are a cleared employee and you find a classified document unsecured on a coworker's desk.
What is the first thing you should do? - ✔✔Ensure classified material is secured and take
personal possession if necessary
23. Which of the following will require a prepublication review? - ✔✔-Sending a book to
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