CDASA EXAM SCRIPT FULL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS DETAILED
REVIEW SHEET
●● Knowledge review
Answer: 1. Available knowledge
2. Collection posture
3. Critical gaps
●● Resource picture
Answer: 1. Technology and tools
2. People
3. Time
●● Methodology building
Answer: 1. Project timeline and milestones
2. Knowledge development plans
●● Knowledge development
Answer: 1. Collection
2. Outreach
,3. Research
●● Performing analysis
Answer: 1. Discipline-specific technique
2. Targeted technique
3. Sensemaking
●● Evaluating analysis
Answer: 1. Assess/evaluate analytic finding
2. Impact of remaining gaps and assumptions
3. Analysis of alternatives
4. Confidence selection
●● Intelligence Community (IC)
Answer: Group of Executive Branch agencies and organizations that
work separately and together to engage in intelligence activities that are
necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the
national security of the United States.
●● Program Manager
Answer: Advises and assists the ODNI in identifying collection
requirements, developing budgets, managing finances, and evaluating
the IC's performance.
, ●● Department
Answer: IC components that focus on serving their parent department's
intelligence needs.
●● Service IC Component
Answer: Primarily support their own Service's information needs.
●● Unifying Intelligence Strategies (UIS)
Answer: Central critical plans for achieving intelligence integration.
●● ODNI
Answer: - Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Lead by the DNI
- Core mission is to lead the IC in intelligence integration
- Principal advisor to the President and the National Security Council
(NSC)
- Oversees the National Intelligence Program (NIP)
●● National Intelligence Manager (NIM)
Answer: Create UISs in line with the IC prioritized requirements by
geography and topic
AND CORRECT ANSWERS DETAILED
REVIEW SHEET
●● Knowledge review
Answer: 1. Available knowledge
2. Collection posture
3. Critical gaps
●● Resource picture
Answer: 1. Technology and tools
2. People
3. Time
●● Methodology building
Answer: 1. Project timeline and milestones
2. Knowledge development plans
●● Knowledge development
Answer: 1. Collection
2. Outreach
,3. Research
●● Performing analysis
Answer: 1. Discipline-specific technique
2. Targeted technique
3. Sensemaking
●● Evaluating analysis
Answer: 1. Assess/evaluate analytic finding
2. Impact of remaining gaps and assumptions
3. Analysis of alternatives
4. Confidence selection
●● Intelligence Community (IC)
Answer: Group of Executive Branch agencies and organizations that
work separately and together to engage in intelligence activities that are
necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the
national security of the United States.
●● Program Manager
Answer: Advises and assists the ODNI in identifying collection
requirements, developing budgets, managing finances, and evaluating
the IC's performance.
, ●● Department
Answer: IC components that focus on serving their parent department's
intelligence needs.
●● Service IC Component
Answer: Primarily support their own Service's information needs.
●● Unifying Intelligence Strategies (UIS)
Answer: Central critical plans for achieving intelligence integration.
●● ODNI
Answer: - Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Lead by the DNI
- Core mission is to lead the IC in intelligence integration
- Principal advisor to the President and the National Security Council
(NSC)
- Oversees the National Intelligence Program (NIP)
●● National Intelligence Manager (NIM)
Answer: Create UISs in line with the IC prioritized requirements by
geography and topic
