CDASA I Exam Questions and Verified Answers.
Framing - 1. Client requirement
2. Question crafting
3. Scoping
Knowledge review - 1. Available knowledge
2. Collection posture
3. Critical gaps
Resource picture - 1. Technology and tools
2. People
3. Time
Methodology building - 1. Project timeline and milestones
2. Knowledge development plans
Knowledge development - 1. Collection
2. Outreach
3. Research
Performing analysis - 1. Discipline-specific technique
2. Targeted technique
3. Sensemaking
Evaluating analysis - 1. Assess/evaluate analytic finding
2. Impact of remaining gaps and assumptions
3. Analysis of alternatives
4. Confidence selection
Intelligence Community (IC) - Group of Executive Branch agencies and organizations
that work separately and together to engage in intelligence activities that are necessary
for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the
United States.
Program Manager - Advises and assists the ODNI in identifying collection requirements,
developing budgets, managing finances, and evaluating the IC's performance.
Department - IC components that focus on serving their parent department's intelligence
needs.
Service IC Component - Primarily support their own Service's information needs.
Unifying Intelligence Strategies (UIS) - Central critical plans for achieving intelligence
integration.
, ODNI - - Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Lead by the DNI
- Core mission is to lead the IC in intelligence integration
- Principal advisor to the President and the National Security Council (NSC)
- Oversees the National Intelligence Program (NIP)
National Intelligence Manager (NIM) - Create UISs in line with the IC prioritized
requirements by geography and topic
Six steps of the intelligence cycle - 1. Planning and direction
2. Collection
3. Processing and exploitation
4. Analysis and production
5. Dissemination
6. Evaluation
Planning and Direction (intelligence cycle) - Establish the consumer's intelligence
requirements and plan intelligence activities accordingly.
Collection (intelligence cycle) - Gather the raw data required to produce the finished
product.
Processing and exploitation (intelligence cycle) - Convert the raw data into a
comprehensible format that is usable for production of the finished product.
Analysis and production (intelligence cycle) - Integrate, evaluate, analyze, and prepare
the processed information for inclusion in the finished product.
Dissemination (intelligence cycle) - Deliver the finished product to the consumer that
requested it and to others as applicable.
Evaluation - Continually acquire feedback during the Intelligence Cycle and evaluate
that feedback to refine each individual step and the cycle as a whole.
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) - - Resides within ODNI
- Primary responsibility for counterterrorism intelligence analysis and counterterrorism
strategic operational planning
- Components: Directorate of Intelligence, Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning,
Directorate of Operations Support, Directorate of Terrorist Identities, Office of National
Intelligence Management
Directorate of Intelligence (NCTC) - Leads the production and integration of
counterterrorism analysis for the US Government.
Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning (NCTC) - Directs the US Government's
planning efforts to focus all elements of national power against the terrorist threat.
Framing - 1. Client requirement
2. Question crafting
3. Scoping
Knowledge review - 1. Available knowledge
2. Collection posture
3. Critical gaps
Resource picture - 1. Technology and tools
2. People
3. Time
Methodology building - 1. Project timeline and milestones
2. Knowledge development plans
Knowledge development - 1. Collection
2. Outreach
3. Research
Performing analysis - 1. Discipline-specific technique
2. Targeted technique
3. Sensemaking
Evaluating analysis - 1. Assess/evaluate analytic finding
2. Impact of remaining gaps and assumptions
3. Analysis of alternatives
4. Confidence selection
Intelligence Community (IC) - Group of Executive Branch agencies and organizations
that work separately and together to engage in intelligence activities that are necessary
for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the
United States.
Program Manager - Advises and assists the ODNI in identifying collection requirements,
developing budgets, managing finances, and evaluating the IC's performance.
Department - IC components that focus on serving their parent department's intelligence
needs.
Service IC Component - Primarily support their own Service's information needs.
Unifying Intelligence Strategies (UIS) - Central critical plans for achieving intelligence
integration.
, ODNI - - Office of the Director of National Intelligence
- Lead by the DNI
- Core mission is to lead the IC in intelligence integration
- Principal advisor to the President and the National Security Council (NSC)
- Oversees the National Intelligence Program (NIP)
National Intelligence Manager (NIM) - Create UISs in line with the IC prioritized
requirements by geography and topic
Six steps of the intelligence cycle - 1. Planning and direction
2. Collection
3. Processing and exploitation
4. Analysis and production
5. Dissemination
6. Evaluation
Planning and Direction (intelligence cycle) - Establish the consumer's intelligence
requirements and plan intelligence activities accordingly.
Collection (intelligence cycle) - Gather the raw data required to produce the finished
product.
Processing and exploitation (intelligence cycle) - Convert the raw data into a
comprehensible format that is usable for production of the finished product.
Analysis and production (intelligence cycle) - Integrate, evaluate, analyze, and prepare
the processed information for inclusion in the finished product.
Dissemination (intelligence cycle) - Deliver the finished product to the consumer that
requested it and to others as applicable.
Evaluation - Continually acquire feedback during the Intelligence Cycle and evaluate
that feedback to refine each individual step and the cycle as a whole.
National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) - - Resides within ODNI
- Primary responsibility for counterterrorism intelligence analysis and counterterrorism
strategic operational planning
- Components: Directorate of Intelligence, Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning,
Directorate of Operations Support, Directorate of Terrorist Identities, Office of National
Intelligence Management
Directorate of Intelligence (NCTC) - Leads the production and integration of
counterterrorism analysis for the US Government.
Directorate of Strategic Operational Planning (NCTC) - Directs the US Government's
planning efforts to focus all elements of national power against the terrorist threat.
