LIRR BLOCK OPERATOR STUDY GUIDE 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔battle drill or SOP rehearsal - ✔✔ensure that all participants understand a specific
technique.
✔✔FRAGO - ✔✔issued as needed after an OPORD or to execute a branch or sequel to
the plan
✔✔What are the steps of the RDSP? - ✔✔1. compare the current situation to the order
2. determine that a decision, and what type of decision, is required
3. develop a response
4. refine and validate the COA
5. implement
✔✔ What is the army's framework for executing mission command? - ✔✔The
Operations Process
✔✔What are the major mission command activities performed during operations? -
✔✔Planning, Preparing, Executing, and continually assessing (PPEA)
✔✔Who drives the operations process? - ✔✔Commanders
✔✔How do commanders drive the operation process? - ✔✔Through understanding,
visualizing, describing, directing, leading, and assessing. (UVDDLA)
✔✔How do commanders complete their visualization of desired future conditions? -
✔✔By conceptualizing an operational approach
✔✔How do commanders describe their vision? - ✔✔Through commanders intent,
planning guidance (operational approach), CCIR and EEFI
✔✔How do commanders direct? - ✔✔Preparing and approving plans and orders,
establish command and support relationships, assigning and adjusting tasks, control
measures and task organization, positioning units to maximize combat power,
positioning key leaders at critical places and times to ensure supervision, allocating
resources to exploit opportunities and counter threats, committing the reserve as
required
✔✔How do commanders lead? - ✔✔By providing purpose, direction, and motivation to
subordinate commanders, their staff, and Soldiers. In many instances, physical
presence is necessary.
, ✔✔How do commanders assess? - ✔✔Incorporate assessment to modify plans and
orders to changing circumstances
✔✔What is the Army's operational concept? - ✔✔Unified Land Operations
✔✔What are the two components of integrated planning? - ✔✔Conceptual planning and
detailed planning
✔✔What are the three principle army design methodologies? - ✔✔Army design
methodology, Military Decision Making Process (MDMP), and Troop Leading
Procedures (TLP)
✔✔What are the activities of Army Design Methodology? - ✔✔Frame the OE (Current
state -> Desired end state), Frame the Problem, Develop an Operational Approach ->
Develop the problem
✔✔What is the MDMP? - ✔✔An iterative planning methodology that integrates the
activities of the commander, staff, subordinate staffs and other partners to:
- understand the situation and mission
- develop and compare courses of actions
- decide the best COA to accomplish the mission
- produce an operation plan or order for execution
✔✔What does MDMP do? - ✔✔- Facilitates collaborate and parallel planning
- integrates the commander, staff, and others
- integrates and synchronizes the war fighting functions
- drives preparation
✔✔What are the steps of the MDMP? - ✔✔1. Receipt of Mission
2. Mission Analysis
3. COA development
4. COA analysis
5. COA Comparison
6. COA Approval
7. Orders Production
✔✔What is the mission statement? - ✔✔The task, together with the purpose, that
indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore
✔✔What does the commander's intent do? - ✔✔succinctly describes what constitutes
success for the operation.
✔✔What are key tasks? - ✔✔Those activities the force must perform as a whole to
achieve the desired end-state
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔battle drill or SOP rehearsal - ✔✔ensure that all participants understand a specific
technique.
✔✔FRAGO - ✔✔issued as needed after an OPORD or to execute a branch or sequel to
the plan
✔✔What are the steps of the RDSP? - ✔✔1. compare the current situation to the order
2. determine that a decision, and what type of decision, is required
3. develop a response
4. refine and validate the COA
5. implement
✔✔ What is the army's framework for executing mission command? - ✔✔The
Operations Process
✔✔What are the major mission command activities performed during operations? -
✔✔Planning, Preparing, Executing, and continually assessing (PPEA)
✔✔Who drives the operations process? - ✔✔Commanders
✔✔How do commanders drive the operation process? - ✔✔Through understanding,
visualizing, describing, directing, leading, and assessing. (UVDDLA)
✔✔How do commanders complete their visualization of desired future conditions? -
✔✔By conceptualizing an operational approach
✔✔How do commanders describe their vision? - ✔✔Through commanders intent,
planning guidance (operational approach), CCIR and EEFI
✔✔How do commanders direct? - ✔✔Preparing and approving plans and orders,
establish command and support relationships, assigning and adjusting tasks, control
measures and task organization, positioning units to maximize combat power,
positioning key leaders at critical places and times to ensure supervision, allocating
resources to exploit opportunities and counter threats, committing the reserve as
required
✔✔How do commanders lead? - ✔✔By providing purpose, direction, and motivation to
subordinate commanders, their staff, and Soldiers. In many instances, physical
presence is necessary.
, ✔✔How do commanders assess? - ✔✔Incorporate assessment to modify plans and
orders to changing circumstances
✔✔What is the Army's operational concept? - ✔✔Unified Land Operations
✔✔What are the two components of integrated planning? - ✔✔Conceptual planning and
detailed planning
✔✔What are the three principle army design methodologies? - ✔✔Army design
methodology, Military Decision Making Process (MDMP), and Troop Leading
Procedures (TLP)
✔✔What are the activities of Army Design Methodology? - ✔✔Frame the OE (Current
state -> Desired end state), Frame the Problem, Develop an Operational Approach ->
Develop the problem
✔✔What is the MDMP? - ✔✔An iterative planning methodology that integrates the
activities of the commander, staff, subordinate staffs and other partners to:
- understand the situation and mission
- develop and compare courses of actions
- decide the best COA to accomplish the mission
- produce an operation plan or order for execution
✔✔What does MDMP do? - ✔✔- Facilitates collaborate and parallel planning
- integrates the commander, staff, and others
- integrates and synchronizes the war fighting functions
- drives preparation
✔✔What are the steps of the MDMP? - ✔✔1. Receipt of Mission
2. Mission Analysis
3. COA development
4. COA analysis
5. COA Comparison
6. COA Approval
7. Orders Production
✔✔What is the mission statement? - ✔✔The task, together with the purpose, that
indicates the action to be taken and the reason therefore
✔✔What does the commander's intent do? - ✔✔succinctly describes what constitutes
success for the operation.
✔✔What are key tasks? - ✔✔Those activities the force must perform as a whole to
achieve the desired end-state
