TACP CDCs V2 Exam Questions
TACP members operate at their aligned Army echelon which can range from - ✔✔Battalion to
Corps
Which is the Army's HIGHEST echelon that trains and operates as a combined arms team? -
✔✔Div
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TACP CDCs V2 Exam Questions
TACP members operate at their aligned Army echelon which can range from - ✔✔Battalion to
Corps
Which is the Army's HIGHEST echelon that trains and operates as a combined arms team? -
✔✔Division
Which type of Army division is PRIMARILY a powerful offensive force - ✔✔Armored
Which Army unit has the mission to close with the enemy using available firepower and
controlled maneuvers? - ✔✔Brigade
Which Army command staff member is responsible for all fires on surface targets to include air
support? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordinator (FSCOORD)
Which Army Command staff member is responsible for planning and coordinating fire support
and suppression of enemy air defense? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordinator (FSCOORD)
Which Army echelon has a dedicated Army airspace command and control (A2C2)? -
✔✔Division
Which Army liaison officer supports the Control and Reporting Center (CRC) and handles realtime Army airspace management issues? - ✔✔Airspace management liaison Officer
Which Army liaison officer mantains capabilities, locations and status of air defense artillery
(ADA) systems? - ✔✔Air Defense Liaison Officer
Which Army liaison officer advises the Air Force weapons officer on employment of Air
Defense Artillery (ADA)? - ✔✔Air Defense Liaison Officer
How does the Air Force organize its forces overseas? - ✔✔Geographical
How many Major Commands (MAJCOMS) does the Air Force have to accomplish its mission? -
✔✔Nine
How many wing commands are found in the Air Force structure - ✔✔Three
Which Theater Air Control System (TACS) element is the wing commander's command and
control element? - ✔✔Wing Operations Center (WOC)
In garrison, TACP falls under the operational control of what unit? - ✔✔Air Support Operations
Group (ASOG)
TACP operations fall under what two general categories? - ✔✔Liaison and Control
In a TACP, which member integrates air support sorties with the Army unit scheme of
maneuver? - ✔✔ALO
In a TACP, which member may conduct drop zone operations when drop zone support team is
NOT available? - ✔✔Air Mobility Liaison Officer
Which Army echelon is an Air Support Operations Center(ASOC) normally collocated with -
✔✔Corps
Who does the Corps ALO or ASOC director report to? - ✔✔The air operation centers director or
commander
Which radio net is used by the ASOC to interface with other Theater Air Control System
(TACS) units? - ✔✔Command and control net
Which radio net is used to direct and control aircraft engaged in theater air support? -
✔✔Tactical Air Direction Net
Which theater air control system (TACS) element coordinates strategic operations within the
theater airlift management system and collocates with the Air Operations Center (AOC)? -
✔✔Air Mobility Element (AME)
Which Theater Air Control System (TACS) element provides near real time to efficiently
execute the battle plan? - ✔✔Joint surveillance, target attack radar system (JSTARS)
How many divisions are found at the Air Operations Center (AOC) - ✔✔Five
Normaly how many hours will an air tasking order (ATO) cover? - ✔✔24hrs
Which document from the AOC provides operators critical guidance on how to execute the
ATO? - ✔✔Special instructions (SPINS)
The battlefield coordination detachment (BCD) is the land commander's (LCC) liaison and is
collocated with the? - ✔✔Air Operations Center (AOC)
How many sections are within the battlefield coordination detachment structure? - ✔✔Six
Which section within the BCD ensures the synchronization between the current air operations
and the current Army operations? - ✔✔Operations
Which section within the BCD exchanges information with the CRC, land component HQ, and
ADA HQ? - ✔✔Air defense
Which section within the BCD maintains identification codes of all Army forces (ARFOR)
airspace users including fire support and unmanned aerial vehicle? - ✔✔Airspace management
What is the function of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)? - ✔✔Acquiring
and processing information
The ISR term "tasking authority" simply means who? - ✔✔Owns the system
What is the name of the CRITICAL PIECES of intelligence that a commander must know about
the enemy and the operational environment by a particular time in order to plan and execute a
successful mission? - ✔✔Priority intelligence requirements (PIR)
What is the name of any specific time-sensitive, ad hoc requirement for intelligence information
or products to support an on going operation or crisis NOT necessarily related to the standing
requirements? - ✔✔Request for information (RFI)
the science portion of command deals with the study and method of a body of facts and
processes based on principals from? - ✔✔The physical or material world
What should leadership provide to influence their people in order to accomplish the mission? -
✔✔Purpose, Direction, and Motivation
What are the elements that make up the control portion of the Command and Control (C2)
system? - ✔✔Information, communication, structure
How many types of suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) are there? - ✔✔Two
What do planners consider if an air operation exposes friendly aircraft to an enemy's air defense?
- ✔✔The availability and capability of SEAD capable systems
What are the objectives of electronic warfare (EW)? - ✔✔Control, exploit, enhance
For offensive electronic warfare (EW) what is required for a more sophisticated jamming? -
✔✔More intelligence in the jammer
Which type of targets is the focus for joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)? - ✔✔High
importance to the enemy
Which term of joint tactics, Techniques and procedures (TTPs) consists of operations to divert,
disrupt, delay, or destroy the enemy's surface potential before it can be used effectively against
friendly forces? - ✔✔Air Interdiction (AI)
Air interdiction attacks on which type of targets interferes with an adversaries ability to mass,
maneuver, withdraw, supply, and reinforce surface targets? - ✔✔Command and Control (C2)
systems
In order for CAS to be effective, all of the following conditions are required EXCEPT for? -
✔✔inauspicious environmental conditions
What effects can a commander produce by orchestrating CAS with other surface and air
operations - ✔✔Operational
What ensures that the execution of CAS is on the right target and reduces the possibility of
fratricide? - ✔✔Terminal control
Which battlefield operation requires special care to identify friendly forces and ensure that they
are NOT subject to direct attack or weapons effects from CAS ordinance? - ✔✔Rear operations
Which battlefield operation with CAS gives the maneuver force commander freedom of
movement? - ✔✔Offensive operations
Which battlefield operation with CAS can cause the enemy to deploy prematurely? -
✔✔Defensive operations
The ability to mass joint fire support at a decisive point and to provide the supporting fires
needed to achieve the commander's objectives relies on? - ✔✔Coherent planning
What channel does a request for preplanned CAS mission flow through up to higher echelons? -
✔✔Fire support coordination element
Preplanned CAS requests are categorized as either scheduled or? - ✔✔On call
What information can "on call" requests for CAS specify? - ✔✔Airborne or ground alert
Which channel does the mission data for preplanned requests funnel down through back on the
requestor? - ✔✔Ground maneuver forces channel
What advice does the corps Air Liaison Officer (ALO) give to the corps G3/S3 Air if on call
close air support (CAS) is unavailable? - ✔✔Forward the request to battlefield coordination
detachment (BCD) at the AOC
Who allocates CAS and decides to divert other CAS missions to the corps requesting additional
missions? - ✔✔Land component commander (LCC)
How do commanders take full advantage of the battlefield opportunities to maintain the
momentum of an offensive action or reduce operational and tactical risks? - ✔✔By massing
firepower
Which planning consideration within the Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain, and Time (METT-T)
determines which CAS will be employed? - ✔✔Enemy
Which planning consideration within the Mission, Enemy, Troops, Terrain, and Time (METT-T)
can limit communications and visual line of sight (LOS) for identifying the target or aircraft? -
✔✔Terrain
What is the basic consideration of CAS missions involving laser guided weapons (LGW) besides
coordination of of laser capable designators and ordinance - ✔✔Attack parameters
What is the primary or standard map datum in use today? - ✔✔WGS-84
How many grid coordinate digits make up the standard for target location while using MGRS? -
✔✔6
Many GPS receivers can compute quick, accurate coordinate conversions provided the -
✔✔Users are properly trained
Which condition for effective CAS permits CAS to function more effectively and denies that
same advantage to the enemy? - ✔✔Air superiority
Which condition for effective CAS allows for a commander to exploit fleeting battlefield
opportunities? - ✔✔Prompt response
Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) is established and adjusted by the land forces
commander, usually at the corps echelon? - ✔✔Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL)
Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) allows conventional or improvised conditional
indirect fires to engage targets at anytime within the zone of the establishing headquarters
without additional coordination? - ✔✔Coordinated fire line
Which fire support coordination measure (FSCM) prohibits all fires into an area without prior
clearance? - ✔✔No-fire area
Fratricide is unwanted, undesirable and what? - ✔✔Avoidable
Which term employs the concept that describes the unintended physical damage to any noncombatant persons, property or environments occurring incidental to military operations? -
✔✔Collateral damage
Which type of weapon is NOT applicable for estimating the damage from employment under the
collateral damage estimates? - ✔✔Non-kinetic
Which term describes the capability to rapidly and accurately identify friendly, enemy, and
neutral forces, manage and control the battle space, and minimize the risk of fratricide? -
✔✔Combat identification (CID)
Which factor or condition of Positive Identification (PID) identifies the capacity of a person to
process information, which makes it difficult to maintain situational awareness? - ✔✔Human
factor
Which factor or condition of Positive Identification (PID) addresses a certain type of knowledge
that is difficult and time consuming to acquire? - ✔✔Operational
Within how many meters of the target should a visual mark impact near the target to ensure a
successful attack? - ✔✔100
Within how many seconds prior to CAS ordinance impact should the target marks from indirect
fire munitions appear? - ✔✔30-45
Within how many meters of the target should a target mark from indirect fire be from the target
to be efficient enough to direct CAS aircraft? - ✔✔300m
How many types of categories of CAS missions are there? - ✔✔Three
Who does the responsibility for the expenditure of ordinance rest with? - ✔✔Maneuver force
commander
What is bomb damage assessment (BDA) used for? - ✔✔Updating the enemy order of battle
What are the four characteristics of a bomb? - ✔✔Body, tail, fusing and guidance
How do pilots aim rockets at a target? - ✔✔By pointing the nose of the aircraft at the target
What is the minimum number of satellites a JDAM must acquire for mid-course guidance? -
✔✔Four
What is the nomenclature of the MK-84 2,000 lb bomb when converted into a JDAM? -
✔✔GBU-31
Which homing system has a camera mounted in the nose of the weapon aligned to the axis of
that weapon? - ✔✔Television
Which homing system is NOT night capable or under conditions of low visibility, and is NOT
usable against camouflage targets - ✔✔Television
The SA-8 and Roland are examples of which surface to air missile system? - ✔✔Short range air
defense missile system
Which type of missiles is characterized as fixed sites? - ✔✔Long-range air defense missile
system
Why are MANPADs and short range air defense (SHORAD) systems your PRIMARY threat
when conducting CAS? - ✔✔These systems are found in the forward deployed areas
Which system uses a fire direction and control method of continuous fire, aided by observing and
correcting the flight path of the tracer rounds into the target? - ✔✔Antiaircraft machine guns
Which antiaircraft artillery system has a caliber range of 20mm to 57mm? - ✔✔Light antiaircraft artillery
Which system can be either towed or self propelled and a crew of three or four usually operate
it? - ✔✔Light anti-aircraft artillery
Which antiaircraft artillery has a caliber range of 75mm to 130mm? - ✔✔Medium anti-aircraft
artillery
Which priority requires the causality to be evacuated within four hours? - ✔✔Priority
What information goes in line two of the medivac 9 line? - ✔✔Radio frequency and callsign
Which line of the medivac 9 line is used for marking the landing zone. - ✔✔Line 7
Which line of the medivac 9 line form identifies weather the landing zone is contaminated with
nuclear, biological, chemical agents? - ✔✔Line 9
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