Leadership(Army Board Study Guide)
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What does FM 6-22 cover? - CORRECT ANSWER - Army Leadership (Competent,
Confident and Agile)
What does FM 7-0 cover? - CORRECT ANSWER - Training the force
Define Leadership - CORRECT ANSWER - Leadership is influencing people by
providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and
improving the organization.
What is purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER - Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in
order to achieve a desired outcome.
What is direction? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing clear direction involves
communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for
completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.
What is motivation? - CORRECT ANSWER - Motivation supplies the will to do what is
necessary to accomplish a mission.
Describe the "Be, Know and Do". - CORRECT ANSWER - Army leadership begins with
what the leader must BE, the values and attributes that shape a leader's character. Your skills are
those things you KNOW how to do, your competence in everything from the technical side of
your job to the people skills a leader requires. But character and knowledge while absolutely
necessary are not enough. You cannot be effective, you cannot be a leader, until you apply what
you know, until you act and DO what you must.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide
knowledge and feedback? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Counseling
, 2. Coaching
3. Mentoring
A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas? -
CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Military Bearing
2. Physical Fitness
3. Confidence
4. Resilience
What is military bearing? - CORRECT ANSWER - Projecting a commanding presence, a
professional image of authority.
What is physical fitness? - CORRECT ANSWER - Having sound health, strength, and
endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence? - CORRECT ANSWER - Projecting self-confidence and certainty in
the unit's ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward
calm through steady control over emotion.
What is resilience? - CORRECT ANSWER - Showing a tendency to recover quickly from
setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational
focus.
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers'
and leaders'
careers? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Institutional training.
2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
3. Self-development.
What are the Leader Actions? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Influencing - getting people
(Soldiers, Army civilians, and multinational partners) to do what is necessary.
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
What does FM 6-22 cover? - CORRECT ANSWER - Army Leadership (Competent,
Confident and Agile)
What does FM 7-0 cover? - CORRECT ANSWER - Training the force
Define Leadership - CORRECT ANSWER - Leadership is influencing people by
providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and
improving the organization.
What is purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER - Purpose gives subordinates the reason to act in
order to achieve a desired outcome.
What is direction? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing clear direction involves
communicating how to accomplish a mission: prioritizing tasks, assigning responsibility for
completion, and ensuring subordinates understand the standard.
What is motivation? - CORRECT ANSWER - Motivation supplies the will to do what is
necessary to accomplish a mission.
Describe the "Be, Know and Do". - CORRECT ANSWER - Army leadership begins with
what the leader must BE, the values and attributes that shape a leader's character. Your skills are
those things you KNOW how to do, your competence in everything from the technical side of
your job to the people skills a leader requires. But character and knowledge while absolutely
necessary are not enough. You cannot be effective, you cannot be a leader, until you apply what
you know, until you act and DO what you must.
What are the three principal ways that leaders can develop others through which they provide
knowledge and feedback? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Counseling
, 2. Coaching
3. Mentoring
A leader's effectiveness is dramatically enhanced by understanding and developing what areas? -
CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Military Bearing
2. Physical Fitness
3. Confidence
4. Resilience
What is military bearing? - CORRECT ANSWER - Projecting a commanding presence, a
professional image of authority.
What is physical fitness? - CORRECT ANSWER - Having sound health, strength, and
endurance, which sustain emotional health and conceptual abilities under prolonged stress.
What is confidence? - CORRECT ANSWER - Projecting self-confidence and certainty in
the unit's ability to succeed in whatever it does; able to demonstrate composure and outward
calm through steady control over emotion.
What is resilience? - CORRECT ANSWER - Showing a tendency to recover quickly from
setbacks, shock, injuries, adversity, and stress while maintaining a mission and organizational
focus.
What are the three core domains that shape the critical learning experiences throughout Soldiers'
and leaders'
careers? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Institutional training.
2. Training, education, and job experience gained during operational assignments.
3. Self-development.
What are the Leader Actions? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Influencing - getting people
(Soldiers, Army civilians, and multinational partners) to do what is necessary.
