X100 PRETEST QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANS

The distance and duration across which a joint force can successfully employ military capabilities is _____. - ANS ~~ Operational Reach According to ADP 3-0, the purpose of a sustaining operation is to enable the decisive operation or shaping operations by ______ and ______ combat power. - ANS ~~ generating and maintaining _____ is a term used to indicate a delegation of authority by the Secretary of Defense to a subordinate to act on behalf of the Secretary of Defense. - ANS ~~ Executive Agent The ability to establish, and operate ports of debarkation (air, sea, and rail), to establish a distribution system and sustainment bases, and to facilitate port throughput and sustainment support for the reception, staging, onward movement and integration of forces within a theater of operations is: - ANS ~~ Theater Opening. True or False: In the context of organizational power and influence there are two types of power, personal and hard. - ANS ~~ False True or false: Ethical alignment supports Soldiers' understanding of acceptable behavior best describes how ethical alignment contributes to a climate of psychological and physical safety of organizational members? - ANS ~~ True Organizational climate, as described by Dr. Edgar Schein, is a visible manifestation of which one of the following? (Culture, Climate, Leadership, or Risk) - ANS ~~ Culture Command Forces, Control Operations, and Drive the Operations Process are tasks associated with? - ANS ~~ The command and control warfighting function What components of the operational framework describe the operation in terms of resources and priorities of support? - ANS ~~ Main effort and supporting effort Excluding Information, what are the operational variables E, I, and T associated with the acronym PMESII-PT? - ANS ~~ Economic, infrastructure, time Which line of authority is used to accomplish the Title 10 requirements for the Secretary of the Army? - ANS ~~ ADCON At the end of JCIDS, capability developers have an approved solution approach _________________. - ANS ~~ (Pending Correct Answer- potentially DOTMLPF-P) What is the capability each type of team member provides to a Capabilities Development and Integration Directorate (CDID). Capabilities: 1)Institutional knowledge of past decisions and familiarity with force management processes related to the Center of Excellence 2) Recent operational experience in the warfighting function under consideration 3) Recent operational experience in a range of force management processes across the Army Team Members: 1) Force management officer 2)Civilian 3) Basic branch officer - ANS ~~ Civilian - Institutional knowledge of past decisions and familiarity with force management processes related to the Center of Excellence Force management officer - Recent operational experience in a range of force management processes across the Army Basic branch officer- Recent operational experience in the warfighting function under consideration The conclusion of TAA marks the transition from ________. - ANS ~~ Planning to Programming During the late 1930s, the Soviets conducted politically motivated ______ of their _______ Corps - ANS ~~ purges, Officer Probability, passions, and policy best represent Clausewitz's concept of: - ANS ~~ paradoxical trinity According to Alfred Thayer Mahan, how does a nation gain and maintain "command of the sea"? - ANS ~~ Commercial Control Going to war for the right reasons, as a last resort, with a reasonable hope for success, and with legitimate authority best describes? - ANS ~~ "jus ad bellum" (justice of going to war) Which document produced by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff translates strategic policy end states from the Contingency Planning Guidance into military campaign and contingency plan guidance? - ANS ~~ Joint Strategic Campaign Plan Strategies entail the fundamental logic of ends, ways, and means that lead to the achievement of the desired end state. In this construct, the term "ends" is defined as: - ANS ~~ The objectives that must be accomplished to reach the desired end state When formulating strategy the questions of feasibility, acceptability, and suitability are really questions about the validity of a given strategy. Which questions best defines the concept of acceptability? - ANS ~~ Are the consequences of cost justified by the importance of the effect desired? _____________ is a menu of tasks in a common language, which serves as the foundation for joint operations planning across the range of military and interagency operations. - ANS ~~ The Universal Joint Task List (UJTL) The principle US Government organization that works with countries on democratic reforms, economic development and disaster assistance and recovery is? - ANS ~~ United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Just conduct in war (jus in bello) requires distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants. This is particularly important in the fires function when selecting targets. This principle is known as: - ANS ~~ Discrimination ___________ is a range of DOD activities conducted outside the US and its territories to relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation. - ANS ~~ Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) ______ includes the authority for planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process input, and directive authority for logistics - ANS ~~ Combatant Command (COCOM) National interests, the manner and extent of participation, limitations and constraints on the employment of forces are diplomatic and military considerations for the planning and execution of: - ANS ~~ Multinational operations. _________ are conducted by the Department of Defense, at the direction of the Department of State, to assist US citizens to leave a foreign nation when the security situation becomes dangerous. - ANS ~~ Noncombatant evacuation operation Which organization within the United Nations is responsible for maintaining international peace and security? - ANS ~~ The Security Council Which three methods does the Defense Acquisition System (DAS) use for materiel development based on immediacy of need? - ANS ~~ Urgent, Emergent, Deliberate Who establishes priorities for Army force integration efforts? - ANS ~~ HQDA G3/5/7 The conclusion of TAA marks the transition from ________. - ANS ~~ planning to programming What are authority, responsibility, decision-making, and leadership key elements of? - ANS ~~ Command (Note, just "Command" not Mission Command) What are the elements of combat power? - ANS ~~ Leadership, Firepower, Information, Mobility, and survivability ___________________ must develop and improve organizations while accomplishing the mission. - ANS ~~ Organizational-level leaders True or False: One reason to negotiate is to agree on how to share or divide limited resources. - ANS ~~ True According to JP 3-0, what tool can help commanders and staffs gain a systems perspective and develop an understanding of the operational environment? - ANS ~~ PMESII Which instrument of national power is the principal instrument for engaging other states and foreign groups in order to advance U.S. values, interests, and objectives? - ANS ~~ Diplomatic What characterized Napoleon's operational approach? - ANS ~~ Force-focused mass maneuver into enemy territory to force an enemy to wage battle What were Alfred Thayer Mahan's six "principal conditions" that affected sea power? - ANS ~~ geographical position, physical conformation, extent of territory, number of population, national character, and character of government. (From google, not found in lesson) What is the principal reason the French were unable to stop the German advance in 1940 - ANS ~~ Too-rigid doctrine Which of the following documents is produced by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) as part of the Joint Strategic Planning System? - ANS ~~ National Military Strategy Using national strategies as a guide, combatant commanders develop plans that execute day-to-day campaigning that address theater objectives as well as objectives directed by global campaign plans and functional campaign plans. What is the term for plan? - ANS ~~ Combatant Command Campaign Plan What are the three key national security policy advisory councils to the President of the United States? - ANS ~~ 1) The National Security Council (NSC) · 2) the Homeland Security Council (HSC) · 3) the National Economic Council (NEC). Which document does the President approve that defines the responsibilities and areas of responsibility for combatant commanders? - ANS ~~ Unified Command Plan What authority does a Combatant Commander use to assign a component commander with the responsibility for conducting various theater logistics functions, as well as base support at designated theater locations? - ANS ~~ Directive Authority for Logistics (DAFL) The organization's formal and informal norms reflect its espoused ethical beliefs and values best describes what? - ANS ~~ Ethical Alignment How does ethical alignment contribute to a climate of psychological and physical safety of organizational members? - ANS ~~ Ethical alignment supports Soldiers' understanding of acceptable behavior Which source of power is best suited for gaining the commitment of followers? - ANS ~~ Personal Power What is the simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified action? - ANS ~~ Unified Land Operations What is operation that directly accomplishes the mission is known as the _____ operation - ANS ~~ decisive How do Army leaders refine their understanding of the situation upon receipt of an order? - ANS ~~ Mission variables What was the most important conclusion the Germans reached about armored warfare during the interwar years? - ANS ~~ Tanks can penetrate the defense and exploit French armor doctrine in the 1930s emphasized: - ANS ~~ Tight control over all operations by higher headquarters A multinational partnership based upon a formal agreement and broad, long term objectives and commoninterests is ___________. - ANS ~~ Alliance __________ includes the authority to organize commands and forces and to employ those forces as the commander considers necessary to accomplish assigned missions. - ANS ~~ OPCON JCIDS uses __________ to identify capability needs, gaps, and solution analysis. - ANS ~~ Capabilities-Based Assessments (CBAs) To streamline modernization, Army Futures Command has established ________, bringing all stakeholders into the conversation. - ANS ~~ Cross-Functional Teams (CFTs) What process / decision-making forum do the Senior Leaders of the Army use to determine the best force to meet operational requirements that they can afford within end strength limitations? - ANS ~~ Total Army Analysis (TAA) According to Dr. John Kotter's 8-Stage Change Model, this stage perpetuates the organization's successes and newly learned behaviors into the future. - ANS ~~ Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture After leaders develop the "what, why, and how" of an organizational vision they must focus on developing a strategy to achieve the vision. What is the next step to develop that strategy? - ANS ~~ Refine goals based on guiding coalition input (needs confirmation) National interests, the manner and extent of participation, limitations and constraints on the employment of forces are diplomatic and military considerations for the planning and execution of: - ANS ~~ Multinational operations Which joint function prioritizes and allocates resources, coordinates and controls the employment of joint lethal and nonlethal capabilities, and prepares plans and orders that include establishing appropriate command authorities among subordinate commands and the assigning of tasks and operational areas? - ANS ~~ Command and Control Joint functions are related capabilities and activities grouped together to help Joint Force Commander to: - ANS ~~ Integrate, synchronize, and direct joint operations What is the primary benefit of understanding PMESII systems, their interaction with each other, and how system relationships will change over time? - ANS ~~ Increasing the JFC's knowledge of how actions within a system can affect other system components HQDA G8 aligning resources to requirements approved by the Secretary of the Army and CSA happens as part of ________. - ANS ~~ Programming Within JCIDS, what construct do capability developers use to identify a wide range of possible solutions? - ANS ~~ DOTMLPF-P The Senior Leaders of the Army document TAA decisions on the total force structure in the ____________. - ANS ~~ Army Structure Memorandum (ARSTRUC) Name the Army warfighting functions - ANS ~~ command and control, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection Tenets of Unified Land Operations - ANS ~~ Simultaneity. Depth. Synchronization. and Flexibility Why was the Soviet Red Army unprepared for war in 1941? - ANS ~~ The Red Army was recovering from Stalin's purges of the late 1930s What is the primary difference between Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC) and Casualty Evacuation (CASEVAC)? - ANS ~~ MEDEVAC is comprised of dedicated, standardized platforms designed, staffed, and equipped to provide en route medical care to patients. Who is responsible for organizing, training, equipping, and providing administrating, supplying, and maintaining forces? - ANS ~~ Military Departments Which official did the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, make the statutory principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council? - ANS ~~ The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strategies entail the fundamental logic of ends, ways, and means that lead to the achievement of the desired end state. In this construct, the term "ways" is defined as: - ANS ~~ A sequence of actions that is likely to achieve stated objectives Which military operation, or activity, is conducted to contain armed conflict, force a change in antagonistic behavior, create an environment of reconciliation and rebuilding, and facilitate the transition from fragile to effective governance. - ANS ~~ Peacekeeping Operations _________ are conducted by the Department of Defense, at the direction of the Department of State, to assist US citizens to leave a foreign nation when the security situation becomes dangerous. - ANS ~~ Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) What is a geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of affecting operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander's command or control? - ANS ~~ Area of influence