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IFPC Certification Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Espionage Act of 1917
ANS 🗹🗹: Made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to
interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to
promote the success of its enemies.
Q: Sedition Act of 1918
ANS 🗹🗹: added to Espionage Act to cover "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive
language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the
armed forces.
Q: Executive Order 12333
ANS 🗹🗹: Timely and accurate information about the activities, capabilities, plans,
and intentions of foreign powers, organizations, and persons and their agents, is
essential to the national security of the United States
Q: Goldwater-Nichols Act (1986)
ANS 🗹🗹: Defense reorganization plan which increased the power of the officers
who coordinate the activities of different services.
Identifies the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the senior ranking member of
the Armed Forces. As such, the Chairman of the JCS is the principal military adviser
to the President, the National Security Council (NSC), and the Secretary of Defense.
However, chairman does not have command authority over combat forces. Civilians
are in charge at top to protect against excessive concentration of power.
Q: JP 2-0
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication is the keystone document for joint intelligence. It
provides fundamental principles and guidance for intelligence support to joint
operations.
Q: JP 2-01
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ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for joint and national intelligence
products, services, assessments, and support to joint military operations.
Q: JP 2-01.3
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for conducting joint intelligence
preparation of the operational environment. It describes the process in which the
adversary and other relevant aspects of the operational environment are analyzed
to identify possible adversary courses of action and to support joint operation
planning, execution, and assessment.
Q: JP 2-03
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for conducting geospatial intelligence
(GEOINT) across the range of military operations.
Q: 2014 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS)
ANS 🗹🗹: Provides the IC with the mission direction of the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) for the next four to five years.
Q: National Security Act (1947)
ANS 🗹🗹: Created the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Council
(NSC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Q: Counterintelligence (CI)
ANS 🗹🗹: Counterintelligence is information gathered and activities conducted to
protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations
conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements of foreign
organizations, persons, or international terrorist activities.
Q: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
ANS 🗹🗹: intelligence that is produced from publicly available information
Q: Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
ANS 🗹🗹: imagery, imagery intelligence (IMINT), and geospatial information
Q: Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
IFPC Certification Questions and Answers
(Expert Solutions)
Q: Espionage Act of 1917
ANS 🗹🗹: Made it a crime for a person to convey information with intent to
interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to
promote the success of its enemies.
Q: Sedition Act of 1918
ANS 🗹🗹: added to Espionage Act to cover "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive
language" about the American form of government, the Constitution, the flag, or the
armed forces.
Q: Executive Order 12333
ANS 🗹🗹: Timely and accurate information about the activities, capabilities, plans,
and intentions of foreign powers, organizations, and persons and their agents, is
essential to the national security of the United States
Q: Goldwater-Nichols Act (1986)
ANS 🗹🗹: Defense reorganization plan which increased the power of the officers
who coordinate the activities of different services.
Identifies the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the senior ranking member of
the Armed Forces. As such, the Chairman of the JCS is the principal military adviser
to the President, the National Security Council (NSC), and the Secretary of Defense.
However, chairman does not have command authority over combat forces. Civilians
are in charge at top to protect against excessive concentration of power.
Q: JP 2-0
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication is the keystone document for joint intelligence. It
provides fundamental principles and guidance for intelligence support to joint
operations.
Q: JP 2-01
, Page | 2
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for joint and national intelligence
products, services, assessments, and support to joint military operations.
Q: JP 2-01.3
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for conducting joint intelligence
preparation of the operational environment. It describes the process in which the
adversary and other relevant aspects of the operational environment are analyzed
to identify possible adversary courses of action and to support joint operation
planning, execution, and assessment.
Q: JP 2-03
ANS 🗹🗹: This publication provides doctrine for conducting geospatial intelligence
(GEOINT) across the range of military operations.
Q: 2014 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS)
ANS 🗹🗹: Provides the IC with the mission direction of the Director of National
Intelligence (DNI) for the next four to five years.
Q: National Security Act (1947)
ANS 🗹🗹: Created the Department of Defense (DoD), the National Security Council
(NSC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Q: Counterintelligence (CI)
ANS 🗹🗹: Counterintelligence is information gathered and activities conducted to
protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations
conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements of foreign
organizations, persons, or international terrorist activities.
Q: Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
ANS 🗹🗹: intelligence that is produced from publicly available information
Q: Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT)
ANS 🗹🗹: imagery, imagery intelligence (IMINT), and geospatial information
Q: Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
