DERIVATIVE CLASSIFICATION PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Each of these are ways of incorporating classified source material into new material
except: - ✔✔Planning
✔✔Which of the following is a valid reason to classify information? - ✔✔To protect
national security
✔✔To be classified or maintained as classified, information must meet all of the
following criteria except: - ✔✔The information must be owned by, produced by or for, or
under the control of the U.S. Government (Incorrect) The unauthorized disclosure of the
information must be reasonably expected to cause damage, serious damage, or
exceptionally grave damage to national security (incorrect)
✔✔You may be subject to criminal sanctions, such as incarceration, if you engage in
the unauthorized disclosure of information. - ✔✔True
✔✔You may be subject to administrative, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), or
criminal sanctions if you engage in any of the following except: - ✔✔Submitting a formal
challenge to information that may be improperly classified
✔✔One of the most important responsibilities derivative classifiers have is to analyze
and correct the original classification authority's decisions. - ✔✔False
✔✔All of the following are steps in derivative classification except: - ✔✔Making the
initial determination that information requires protection against unauthorized disclosure
in the interest of national security
✔✔The Security Classification Guide (SCG) states:
The unit's budget is Confidential
The Schedule of Distribution is Confidential
The Compilation of both budget and Schedule of Distribution within the same document
are Secret
The new document states:
(x) The department budget this quarter will be $64,000.
What derivative classification concept is used to classify this document? -
✔✔Classification by Compilation
✔✔When using the derivative classification concept of compilation, you must place a
clearly worded explanation of the basis for classification by compilation on the face of
the document or include it in the text. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔All cleared DoD civilian, military, and contractor personnel who generate or create
classified material from
authorized classified sources are derivative classifiers. - ✔✔True
✔✔Information taken directly from an existing classified source and stated verbatim in a
new or different document an example of ______ - ✔✔Extracting
✔✔Select the true statement concerning derivative classification. - ✔✔Derivative
classifiers are responsible for analyzing and evaluating information to identify elements
that require classification
✔✔The process of determining whether information has already been originally
classified, and, if it has, ensuring that it continues to be identified as classified by
marking or similar means when included in newly created material is called: -
✔✔Derivative classification
✔✔ - ✔✔
✔✔(S) The process takes three hours to complete
New Document states
(S) The first step in the process takes 30 minutes to complete. The second step takes 2
hours and the final step takes 30 minutes. Which concept was used to determine the
derivative classification? - ✔✔revealed by
✔✔Which of the following is a valid reason to classify information? - ✔✔To Protect
National security
✔✔Your new material may aggregate, or bring together, pieces of information that are
not individually classified but when presented together they render your new material
classified. This classification concept is called? - ✔✔Classification by compilation
✔✔(S) The process takes three hours to complete
New Document states
(S) The process takes three hours to complete
Which concept was used to determine the derivative classification of the new
document? - ✔✔
✔✔When derivatively classifying information, where can you find a listing of specific
information elements that identify their classification, reason for classification,
downgrading and declassification information? - ✔✔Security classification guide
✔✔Information taken from an existing classified source and generated into another form
or medium, such as a video, DVD, or CD is an example of - ✔✔Generating
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Each of these are ways of incorporating classified source material into new material
except: - ✔✔Planning
✔✔Which of the following is a valid reason to classify information? - ✔✔To protect
national security
✔✔To be classified or maintained as classified, information must meet all of the
following criteria except: - ✔✔The information must be owned by, produced by or for, or
under the control of the U.S. Government (Incorrect) The unauthorized disclosure of the
information must be reasonably expected to cause damage, serious damage, or
exceptionally grave damage to national security (incorrect)
✔✔You may be subject to criminal sanctions, such as incarceration, if you engage in
the unauthorized disclosure of information. - ✔✔True
✔✔You may be subject to administrative, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), or
criminal sanctions if you engage in any of the following except: - ✔✔Submitting a formal
challenge to information that may be improperly classified
✔✔One of the most important responsibilities derivative classifiers have is to analyze
and correct the original classification authority's decisions. - ✔✔False
✔✔All of the following are steps in derivative classification except: - ✔✔Making the
initial determination that information requires protection against unauthorized disclosure
in the interest of national security
✔✔The Security Classification Guide (SCG) states:
The unit's budget is Confidential
The Schedule of Distribution is Confidential
The Compilation of both budget and Schedule of Distribution within the same document
are Secret
The new document states:
(x) The department budget this quarter will be $64,000.
What derivative classification concept is used to classify this document? -
✔✔Classification by Compilation
✔✔When using the derivative classification concept of compilation, you must place a
clearly worded explanation of the basis for classification by compilation on the face of
the document or include it in the text. - ✔✔True
, ✔✔All cleared DoD civilian, military, and contractor personnel who generate or create
classified material from
authorized classified sources are derivative classifiers. - ✔✔True
✔✔Information taken directly from an existing classified source and stated verbatim in a
new or different document an example of ______ - ✔✔Extracting
✔✔Select the true statement concerning derivative classification. - ✔✔Derivative
classifiers are responsible for analyzing and evaluating information to identify elements
that require classification
✔✔The process of determining whether information has already been originally
classified, and, if it has, ensuring that it continues to be identified as classified by
marking or similar means when included in newly created material is called: -
✔✔Derivative classification
✔✔ - ✔✔
✔✔(S) The process takes three hours to complete
New Document states
(S) The first step in the process takes 30 minutes to complete. The second step takes 2
hours and the final step takes 30 minutes. Which concept was used to determine the
derivative classification? - ✔✔revealed by
✔✔Which of the following is a valid reason to classify information? - ✔✔To Protect
National security
✔✔Your new material may aggregate, or bring together, pieces of information that are
not individually classified but when presented together they render your new material
classified. This classification concept is called? - ✔✔Classification by compilation
✔✔(S) The process takes three hours to complete
New Document states
(S) The process takes three hours to complete
Which concept was used to determine the derivative classification of the new
document? - ✔✔
✔✔When derivatively classifying information, where can you find a listing of specific
information elements that identify their classification, reason for classification,
downgrading and declassification information? - ✔✔Security classification guide
✔✔Information taken from an existing classified source and generated into another form
or medium, such as a video, DVD, or CD is an example of - ✔✔Generating
