OPSEC Level II Exam with Questions and Answers
Question: What is Essential Secrecy?
CORRECT ANSWER : The condition achieved from the
denial of critical information to adversaries through the combined efforts traditional security programs and the operations security process. It is a two pronged approach to protection (OPSEC and Traditional Security and helps maintain the element of surprise)
Question: What are the components of Traditional Security?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Physical 2. Special Access 3.
Information 4. Industrial 5. Personal
Question: What are the components of Operations Security?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Critical Information 2. Threats 3.
Risks 4. Vulnerabilities 5. Measures
Question: What is CALI?
CORRECT ANSWER : Capabilities, Activities, Limitations,
and Intention
Question: What is the Commander's Role in the OPSEC
Program?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Integrate and issue orders for staff
implementation 2. Take administrative action 3. Ensure the coordination and integration with other security programs. 4.Ensure all official information released to the public to include world wide web receives an OPSEC review prior to release 5. Incorporate OPSEC into contracts 6. Determine what will and will not be protected.
Question: What is the OPSEC 5 step process (IAAAI)?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Identify Critical Information 2.
Analyze Threats 3. Analyze Vulnerabilities 4. Assess Risk 5.Implement OPSEC measures
Question: What is the U.S. Army Operations Security
Manual?
CORRECT ANSWER : AR 530-1
Question: What is Critical Information?
CORRECT ANSWER : Information important to the
successful achievement of U.S. objectives and missions, or which may be of use to an adversary of the United States. The adversary needs specific facts about friendly capabilities, activities, limitations, (including vulnerabilities), and intentions (CALI) to act effectively so as to degrade friendly mission accomplishment.
Question: What is Sensitive Information?
CORRECT ANSWER : Information requiring special
protection from disclosure that could compromise or pose a threat to national security, and Army organization, activity, family member, Department of the Army civilian or DOD contractor.
Question: What is the CIL - Critical Information List?
CORRECT ANSWER : The foundation document for
OPSEC. Can consist of: Capabilities: Troops, Training,
Equipment, Activities: Mission time, date, site. Limitations /
Vulnerabilities: Readiness rate Intentions: Plans (OPLAN,
SOP, TTP) Command Guidance sets priorities Section SME's participate in the OPSEC working group to assess what CALI are crucial to those priorities.
Question: What are the CIL Characteristics?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Approved by the CDR 2. CIL no
larger than 10 items 3. Unclassified 4. Easy to Understand 5.Widest Dissemination
Question: What are the sources of information adversaries use
to form perceptions according to OPSEC?
CORRECT ANSWER : 1. Protected Sources 2. Open
Sources 3. Detectable Sources
Question: What are Indicators?
CORRECT ANSW ER: Friendly detectable actions and open
source information that can be pieced together or interpreted to reach conclusions or produce official estimates concerning friendly capabilities, actions, limitations, intent, to derive critical information. Not all indicators are bad; choose visible indicators to form a desired preception.