1. Critical Information (CI) typically relates to specific facts about technologies or systems which if compromised
would directly affect mission accomplishment, while Critical Program Information deals primarily with
personal- related data
a. True
b. False
2. Select the three choices that are among the OPSEC Officer’s primary duties
a. Guide the OPSEC Working Group and senior leaders in application of the five-step OPSEC
process b. Provide recommendations to senior leaders on all matters related to OPSEC
c. Establish and lead the OPSEC Working Group
d. Support the OPSEC programs of other federal agencies
3. Contracts for which one of the following requirements would MOST LIKELY require the incorporation of
OPSEC provisions?
a. Personal services
b. Maintenance
Services c. Systems
acquisition
d. Logistics support
4. The Program Manager is primarily responsible for determining whether or not OPSEC requirements should
be incorporated into a contract.
a. True
b. False
5. Department of Defense Directive 5205.02 makes DoD Component heads directly responsible for which THREE
of the following actions?
a. Establish an OPSEC Program
b. Provide program management, review and evaluation
c. Support the OPSEC programs of other DoD
components
d. Guide the OPSEC Working Group in application of the five-step OPSEC process
6. Within DoD, the OPSEC Plan is normally written by which of the following?
a. Sub-organizational OPSEC
coordinators b. DoD Component Head
c. OPSEC Officer
d. OPSEC Working Group
7. The origins of OPSEC can be traced most directly to:
a. A resolution passed by the Security Council of the United Nations
b. The loss of aircraf t during the Vietnam War due to discernible patterns of activity
c. Breaches in security at the top nuclear research plant in the United States
d. The successful infiltration of a team of Soviet spies during the Cold War
8. Select THREE choices that are among the reasons for using OPSEC
a. Protect the right of combatants
b. Maintain the element of surprise
c. Protect Critical information
d. Ensure mission effectiveness
9. The OPSEC step “identify critical information” involves primarily unclassified
information a. True
b. False
10. Select the THREE choices that are among the five steps of