OPSEC Exam Review Questions and Answers Rated A

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OPSEC Exam Review Questions and Answers Rated A Part 1 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Identification of critical information and OPSEC indicators. Part 2 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Identification and ana ... lysis of relevant threats. Part 3 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Analysis of vulnerabilities. Part 4 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Assessment of risks. Part 5 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Application of appropriate measures and countermeasures. Part 6 of the OPSEC Cycle: ✔✔Periodic assessment of effectiveness. List the 5 characteristics of OPSEC indicators: ✔✔SAPCE: -Signature -Association -Profile -Contrast -Exposure Signature ✔✔The characteristic of an indicator that makes it identifiable or causes it to stand out. It is unique and stable in nature. (physical, technical, administrative) Association ✔✔The relationship of an indicator to other information or activities. It is an important key to an adversary's interpretation of ongoing activity. Profile ✔✔As a characteristic of an indicator, each functional activity generates its own set of more or less unique signatures and associations. The sum of these signatures and associations is the activity's profile. Contrast ✔✔Any differences that are observed between an activity's standard profile and its most recent or current actions. Exposure ✔✔When and for how long an indicator is observed. The duration, repetition, and timing of an indicator's exposure can affect its relative importance and meaning. Primary Joint Publication on OPSEC: ✔✔JP 3-13.3 Essential Secrecy ✔✔The condition achieved from the denial of critical information and indicators (CII) to adversaries through the combined efforts of traditional security programs and the OPSEC process. Essential Secret ✔✔Specific aspects of planned friendly activities and operations that, if compromised, would lead to adversary knowledge of exploitable conditions and a potential failure to meet the commander's objectives and/or endstate. OPSEC Indicator ✔✔Friendly detectable actions and open source information that can be interpreted or pieced together by an adversary to derive critical information. Critical Information and Indicators (CII) ✔✔Specific facts or evidence about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities needed by an adversary to plan and act effectively against friendly mission accomplishment. What is the purpose of friendly activity mapping? ✔✔To conceptually align related friendly events and action into a scoped activity that can be analyzed for further planning. Conduit ✔✔A pathway over which data or information is collected, passed, analyzed and delivered to decision makers. Consists of a sensor, links, nodes, and filters. OPSEC Measure ✔✔Planned actions to conceal friendly CII from disclosure, observation, or recognition. Include all OPSEC activity that protects CII prior to reaching the adversary sensor. OPSEC Countermeasure ✔✔Planned actions to affect adversary collection, analysis, delivery, or interpretation of information by the adversary decisionmaker. Affects CII from the sensor to the adversary decisionmaker. Physical Signature ✔✔Unique Properties that can be collected or analyzed using the human eye. Collection normally involved line of sight. Technical Signature ✔✔Unique electromagnetic, infrared, thermal, or other emanations not readily discernable by human senses. Administrative Signature ✔✔Unique documents or other observable coordination normally attributed to a friendly activity or capability employment. List the 8 operational aspects: ✔✔PCSIRTLM: -Presence -Capability -Strength -Intent -Readiness -Timing -Location -Method Presence ✔✔Current physical or virtual placement within the operational environment. Capability ✔✔Resources enabling a force to undertake a particular kind of military action. Capability is an aspect of friendly activity that may be derived from an observable. Strength ✔✔The level or percentage of capability accessible to the force as measured by what is required to achieve an operational objective or task. Intent ✔✔What the force must do and the conditions the force must establish to accomplish the mission. Readiness ✔✔The ability of a military force to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions. Timing ✔✔When an action will occur: the chronological sequencing of planned action. Location ✔✔Where an action will occur: the projected physical or virtual position where a force will act to achieve a desired effect. Method ✔✔How forces intend to accomplish an objective; the operational approach. [Show More]

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