Captains Career Course - Common Core Final Exam
Questions and Answers
Question 1
What are the types of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs)?
Correct Answer
1. Infantry
2. Armored
3. Stryker
Question 2
(T/F) A staff's most important function is to support and advise the
commander throughout planning, preparation, execution, and
assessment.
Correct Answer
TRUE
Question 3
Select a suitable place, schedule the time, notify the subordinates well
in advance, organize information, establish the atmosphere are all
aspects of what stage of the counseling process?
Correct Answer
Prepare for counseling
Question 4
Supplementary Battle Position
Correct Answer
A supplementary position is a defensive position located within a unit's
assigned AO that provides the best sectors of fire and defensive terrain
along an avenue of approach that is not the primary avenue where the
enemy is expected to attack.
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,Question 5
What are the offensive tasks? (ADRP 3-0 and/or ADRP 3-90)
Correct Answer
1. Movement to Contact
2. Attack
3. Exploitation
4. Pursuit
Question 6
The Stafford Act
Correct Answer
Authorizes the President to issue major disaster declarations -
authorizes federal agencies to provide assistance to states
overwhelmed by disasters
Question 7
A __________ is a difference between the actual situation during an
operation and what the plan forecasted the situation would be at that
time or event.
Correct Answer
Variance
Question 8
Military Decision Making Process Steps
Correct Answer
1. Receive Mission
2. Analyze Mission
3. Develop course of action
4. Analyze course of action
5. Compare course of action
6. Approve course of action
7. Produce, disseminate orders
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,Question 9
__________ is the extension of operations in time, space, or purpose to
achieve definitive results.
Correct Answer
Depth
Question 10
Tactical Enabling Tasks
Correct Answer
1. Reconnaissance
2. Security Operations
3. Troop Movement
4. Relief in Place
5. Passage of lines
6. Encirclement Operations
7. Passage of Lines: Force moves through another force's combat
positions to; sustain tempo, maintain visibility of defense, transition to
defense, free a unit for another mission
Question 11
The __________ are the ABCT's primary maneuver force.
Correct Answer
Combined Arms Battalion
Question 12
What are the war-fighting functions?
Correct Answer
1. Mission Command
2. Movement and Maneuver
3. Intelligence
4. Fires
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, 5. Sustainment
6. Protection
Question 13
(T/F) Staff Officers only communicate with higher echelons.
Correct Answer
FALSE
Question 14
Defensive Tasks (ADRP 3-90)
Correct Answer
1. Mobile Defense
2. Area Defense
3. Retrograde
Question 15
Which Stability Mechanism focuses on imposing civil order?
Correct Answer
Control
Question 16
What are the mission variables?
Correct Answer
1. Mission
2. Enemy
3. Terrain and Weather
4. Troops and Support Available
5. Time Available,
6. Civil Considerations
Known as METT-TC
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Questions and Answers
Question 1
What are the types of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs)?
Correct Answer
1. Infantry
2. Armored
3. Stryker
Question 2
(T/F) A staff's most important function is to support and advise the
commander throughout planning, preparation, execution, and
assessment.
Correct Answer
TRUE
Question 3
Select a suitable place, schedule the time, notify the subordinates well
in advance, organize information, establish the atmosphere are all
aspects of what stage of the counseling process?
Correct Answer
Prepare for counseling
Question 4
Supplementary Battle Position
Correct Answer
A supplementary position is a defensive position located within a unit's
assigned AO that provides the best sectors of fire and defensive terrain
along an avenue of approach that is not the primary avenue where the
enemy is expected to attack.
Page 1 of 153
,Question 5
What are the offensive tasks? (ADRP 3-0 and/or ADRP 3-90)
Correct Answer
1. Movement to Contact
2. Attack
3. Exploitation
4. Pursuit
Question 6
The Stafford Act
Correct Answer
Authorizes the President to issue major disaster declarations -
authorizes federal agencies to provide assistance to states
overwhelmed by disasters
Question 7
A __________ is a difference between the actual situation during an
operation and what the plan forecasted the situation would be at that
time or event.
Correct Answer
Variance
Question 8
Military Decision Making Process Steps
Correct Answer
1. Receive Mission
2. Analyze Mission
3. Develop course of action
4. Analyze course of action
5. Compare course of action
6. Approve course of action
7. Produce, disseminate orders
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,Question 9
__________ is the extension of operations in time, space, or purpose to
achieve definitive results.
Correct Answer
Depth
Question 10
Tactical Enabling Tasks
Correct Answer
1. Reconnaissance
2. Security Operations
3. Troop Movement
4. Relief in Place
5. Passage of lines
6. Encirclement Operations
7. Passage of Lines: Force moves through another force's combat
positions to; sustain tempo, maintain visibility of defense, transition to
defense, free a unit for another mission
Question 11
The __________ are the ABCT's primary maneuver force.
Correct Answer
Combined Arms Battalion
Question 12
What are the war-fighting functions?
Correct Answer
1. Mission Command
2. Movement and Maneuver
3. Intelligence
4. Fires
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, 5. Sustainment
6. Protection
Question 13
(T/F) Staff Officers only communicate with higher echelons.
Correct Answer
FALSE
Question 14
Defensive Tasks (ADRP 3-90)
Correct Answer
1. Mobile Defense
2. Area Defense
3. Retrograde
Question 15
Which Stability Mechanism focuses on imposing civil order?
Correct Answer
Control
Question 16
What are the mission variables?
Correct Answer
1. Mission
2. Enemy
3. Terrain and Weather
4. Troops and Support Available
5. Time Available,
6. Civil Considerations
Known as METT-TC
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