ISR CDP FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
The highest command level at which an ACR may be approved/disapproved - Answer-
Wing
System that allows airmen to fill out their dream sheet - Answer- AMS
Builds strategy, writes policy, advocates for resources, and develops work forces -
Answer- AF/A5
An entity considered for possible engagement or action to alter or neutralize the function
it performs for the adversary - Answer- target
Provides the organizational framework for the IC - Answer- NIS
Primary mechanism to establish, manage, and communicate national intelligence
priorities - Answer- NIPF
Provide resilient and affordable space and cyberspace capabilities for the joint force and
the nation - Answer- AFSPC
Lays out the problem and guides thinking - Answer- Question
Includes the facts, data, evidence, or experience we use to figure things out - Answer-
Information
Ideas, theories, laws, principles, or hypothesis we use to make sense of things -
Answer- Concepts
The place you view something - Answer- Point of View
Goal/objective - Answer- Purpose
Beliefs you take for granted - Answer- Assumptions
Things that might happen if you choose to do something - Answer- Implication
Conclusions you come to - Answer- Inference
, Tendency to overvalue data supporting initial assumptions or expectations and
undervalue that what they contradict - Answer- Confirmation Bias
Tendency to underestimate the variation in small data samples - Answer- Insensitivity to
sample size
Tendency to draw different conclusions from the same data if it is presented differently -
Answer- Framing Effect
Belief that two events are related when they might not be - Answer- Illusory Correlation
Tendency to overvalue small runs, streaks, or clusters in large data sets - Answer-
Clustering Illusion
Tendency to believe something because many others believe it - Answer- Bandwagon
Effect
Assumption that others react to events and see them just as we do - Answer- Mirror
Imaging
The human ability to learn and make decisions based on past experience and is another
one of the intelligent capabilities AI seeks to replicate in machines - Answer- Machine
Learning
Majority of corroborated information from reliable sources, more strong than weak
inferences - Answer- Likely
Limited corroborated information, more weak than strong inferences, some intelligence
gaps exist - Answer- Unlikely
AI used to identify people in photographs - Answer- Machine Vision
Three Intelligence Community Directives that prescribe standards and principles for
dissemination and require annual assessments for compliance - Answer- ICD 208, 203,
206
Which of the six modes of reasoning draws casual inferences using facts, premises,
and logic? - Answer- Scientific
Status quo is the making of immediate judgement and references T/F - Answer- True
The steps of the Structured Analytical Technique "AFM" - Answer- 1. Develop the Focal
Issue
2. Convene group of experts
3. Select by consensus, the two most critical and uncertain forces
4. Establish the most relevant endpoint for each factor
AND ANSWERS
The highest command level at which an ACR may be approved/disapproved - Answer-
Wing
System that allows airmen to fill out their dream sheet - Answer- AMS
Builds strategy, writes policy, advocates for resources, and develops work forces -
Answer- AF/A5
An entity considered for possible engagement or action to alter or neutralize the function
it performs for the adversary - Answer- target
Provides the organizational framework for the IC - Answer- NIS
Primary mechanism to establish, manage, and communicate national intelligence
priorities - Answer- NIPF
Provide resilient and affordable space and cyberspace capabilities for the joint force and
the nation - Answer- AFSPC
Lays out the problem and guides thinking - Answer- Question
Includes the facts, data, evidence, or experience we use to figure things out - Answer-
Information
Ideas, theories, laws, principles, or hypothesis we use to make sense of things -
Answer- Concepts
The place you view something - Answer- Point of View
Goal/objective - Answer- Purpose
Beliefs you take for granted - Answer- Assumptions
Things that might happen if you choose to do something - Answer- Implication
Conclusions you come to - Answer- Inference
, Tendency to overvalue data supporting initial assumptions or expectations and
undervalue that what they contradict - Answer- Confirmation Bias
Tendency to underestimate the variation in small data samples - Answer- Insensitivity to
sample size
Tendency to draw different conclusions from the same data if it is presented differently -
Answer- Framing Effect
Belief that two events are related when they might not be - Answer- Illusory Correlation
Tendency to overvalue small runs, streaks, or clusters in large data sets - Answer-
Clustering Illusion
Tendency to believe something because many others believe it - Answer- Bandwagon
Effect
Assumption that others react to events and see them just as we do - Answer- Mirror
Imaging
The human ability to learn and make decisions based on past experience and is another
one of the intelligent capabilities AI seeks to replicate in machines - Answer- Machine
Learning
Majority of corroborated information from reliable sources, more strong than weak
inferences - Answer- Likely
Limited corroborated information, more weak than strong inferences, some intelligence
gaps exist - Answer- Unlikely
AI used to identify people in photographs - Answer- Machine Vision
Three Intelligence Community Directives that prescribe standards and principles for
dissemination and require annual assessments for compliance - Answer- ICD 208, 203,
206
Which of the six modes of reasoning draws casual inferences using facts, premises,
and logic? - Answer- Scientific
Status quo is the making of immediate judgement and references T/F - Answer- True
The steps of the Structured Analytical Technique "AFM" - Answer- 1. Develop the Focal
Issue
2. Convene group of experts
3. Select by consensus, the two most critical and uncertain forces
4. Establish the most relevant endpoint for each factor
