CGSS FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Environmental
- Nuclear
(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Cleaning up the environment.
- Nuclear proliferation.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Human Rights
- Free Citizens
- Land
,(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Strengthening human or labor rights.
- The freeing of captured citizens.
- The reversal of captures of land.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Money Laundering
- Terrorist Financing
- Illegal Goods
(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Reduction in money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Reduction in trafficking of illegal goods.
✅ What is the ILSA? Answer: The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
which became law in 1996. Act by US Congress that imposed
economic sanctions on firms doing business with Iran and Libya.
Renamed the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) in 2006. Allows the President
to waive sanctions on a case-by-case basis.
,✅ What is the NPT? Answer: The NPT is the Non-Proliferation
Treaty which became law in March of 1970. To prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
✅ What are examples of Thematic Sanctions? Answer: Sanctions
built around a particular issue.
Examples:
- Chemical weapons
- Domestic and international counter terrorism
- Cyber activity
- Global anti-corruption
- Global human rights
- Isil and Al-Qaeda
- Unauthorized drilling activities
- Freezing orders
✅ Alert. Answer: A review based on underlying red flags that
requires analyst attention. Within know-your customer procedures,
alerts are potential discrepancies that are flagged, either manually or
through an automated system, based on defined red flags and
underlying typologies. Within sanctions screening, an alert is a hit, or
multiple hits, of an internal record checked against sanctions
screening lists. If they cannot be resolved easily as false positives,
alerts generally result in investigations.
✅ Asset. Answer: Anything an individual or legal entity owns that
has a monetary value. Fixed assets are those items, such as buildings
, and equipment, that will be used over a period of time; current assets
include raw materials, cash, and any money other parties owe to the
individual or legal entity.
✅ Asset Blocking. Answer: The practice of removing an individual
or legal entity's access to assets during or as the result of an
investigation into a sanctions violation. Asset blocking is also referred
to as freezing an asset.
✅ Asset Confiscation. Answer: The practice of taking ownership of
an individual or legal entity's assets during or as the result of an
investigation into a sanctions violation.
✅ Asset Flight. Answer: The illegal practice of moving assets from
one jurisdiction to another for the purpose of avoiding fines,
confiscation, or other penalties.
✅ Asset Forfeiture. Answer: Similar to asset seizure, asset forfeiture
is an important tool to help law enforcement agencies defund
organized crime and prevent the commission of new crimes. In civil
asset forfeiture, assets unrelated to the commission of a crime can be
taken from the individual accused of committing a crime.
✅ Asset Freezing. Answer: The prevention of a person targeted by
sanctions from accessing or using his or her bank account or other
financial assets. Asset freezing is also referred to as blocking an asset.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Environmental
- Nuclear
(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Cleaning up the environment.
- Nuclear proliferation.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Human Rights
- Free Citizens
- Land
,(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Strengthening human or labor rights.
- The freeing of captured citizens.
- The reversal of captures of land.
✅ Influence Actions:
- Money Laundering
- Terrorist Financing
- Illegal Goods
(Sanctions have been used in response to perceived breaches of many
different types of international standards and for various purposes.).
Answer: Purpose:
- Reduction in money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Reduction in trafficking of illegal goods.
✅ What is the ILSA? Answer: The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act
which became law in 1996. Act by US Congress that imposed
economic sanctions on firms doing business with Iran and Libya.
Renamed the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) in 2006. Allows the President
to waive sanctions on a case-by-case basis.
,✅ What is the NPT? Answer: The NPT is the Non-Proliferation
Treaty which became law in March of 1970. To prevent the spread of
nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
✅ What are examples of Thematic Sanctions? Answer: Sanctions
built around a particular issue.
Examples:
- Chemical weapons
- Domestic and international counter terrorism
- Cyber activity
- Global anti-corruption
- Global human rights
- Isil and Al-Qaeda
- Unauthorized drilling activities
- Freezing orders
✅ Alert. Answer: A review based on underlying red flags that
requires analyst attention. Within know-your customer procedures,
alerts are potential discrepancies that are flagged, either manually or
through an automated system, based on defined red flags and
underlying typologies. Within sanctions screening, an alert is a hit, or
multiple hits, of an internal record checked against sanctions
screening lists. If they cannot be resolved easily as false positives,
alerts generally result in investigations.
✅ Asset. Answer: Anything an individual or legal entity owns that
has a monetary value. Fixed assets are those items, such as buildings
, and equipment, that will be used over a period of time; current assets
include raw materials, cash, and any money other parties owe to the
individual or legal entity.
✅ Asset Blocking. Answer: The practice of removing an individual
or legal entity's access to assets during or as the result of an
investigation into a sanctions violation. Asset blocking is also referred
to as freezing an asset.
✅ Asset Confiscation. Answer: The practice of taking ownership of
an individual or legal entity's assets during or as the result of an
investigation into a sanctions violation.
✅ Asset Flight. Answer: The illegal practice of moving assets from
one jurisdiction to another for the purpose of avoiding fines,
confiscation, or other penalties.
✅ Asset Forfeiture. Answer: Similar to asset seizure, asset forfeiture
is an important tool to help law enforcement agencies defund
organized crime and prevent the commission of new crimes. In civil
asset forfeiture, assets unrelated to the commission of a crime can be
taken from the individual accused of committing a crime.
✅ Asset Freezing. Answer: The prevention of a person targeted by
sanctions from accessing or using his or her bank account or other
financial assets. Asset freezing is also referred to as blocking an asset.
