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QUESTION 1

An analyst disagrees with one of her colleagues’ initial intelligence assessment. When she approaches him about it, he seems highly cooperative but does not respond to any of her concerns when she outlines them. Thinking that perhaps she would benefit from a better understanding of his thought processes, she asks him to explain how he developed his assessment, but he only replies that he used “the software” and does not elaborate any further. She says that she would like to work with him to explore some possible changes to the report, but he replies that he will make any changes that she feels are important. Which conflict style is he using?

QUESTION 2

A criminal intelligence analyst has extensive experience working financial fraud cases in a white-collar crimes division. She receives a new case but only skims the packet because she has seen these types of cases so many times before she feels like she already knows how to proceed. In doing so, she has failed to acknowledge that:

QUESTION 3

Which aspect of evaluating the effectiveness of using structured analytic techniques is the same whether one uses the key assumptions check, cross-impact matrix, or indicators validator?

QUESTION 4

What recommendation do Heuer & Pherson make regarding the composition of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)?

QUESTION 5

An analyst reviews several recent studies published in the Journal of Law and Human Behavior about the detection of deception in human subject so that he can better evaluate the validity of a HUMINT source. What type of resource is he using?

QUESTION 6

Which structured analytic technique is integrated into analysis of competing hypotheses and indicators validator?

QUESTION 7

An analyst working for the Air Force receives a phone call from a colleague in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI colleague asks if she would task an Air Force MASINT collection platform to collect on a US company in Mississippi under investigation for criminal dumping in violation of federal law with the intention of using the information in court. Which statement best describes the analyst’s most likely response?

QUESTION 8

Which statement describes a driving force behind the development and use of structured analytical techniques?

QUESTION 9

Based on a review of recent police reporting, an analyst notices that several incidents of assault in a particular neighborhood involve gay men as their victims. He makes the recommendation that police patrols pass more frequently through the area during the time of day when the crimes have occurred and that the police liaison officer to the gay community include the neighborhood on a list of areas where the department recommends gay men take precautions against assault. Which phrase best describes the form of reasoning he used?

QUESTION 10

An analyst has been tasked to produce an assessment of criticality on members of a criminal organization. He has already established which members have the highest measures of centrality. What MUST he also do to complete his assessment?

QUESTION 11

An analyst identifies areas of her work on a case where she experienced usual successes and failures. She attempts to determine the reasons behind them, records the actions she took to correct issues as they emerged, and assigns a value to the effectiveness of those actions. Which phrase best describes what she is doing?

QUESTION 12

According to Heuer and Pherson (2012), what is the likelihood that the use of structured analytic techniques will increase within the intelligence community?

QUESTION 13

A competitive intelligence analyst monitors the health insurance industry. This industry includes a diverse number of connected organizations, but in order to determine if it is a complex system, the analyst must also know whether or not the organizations are:

QUESTION 14

During the exploitation phase, an analyst reviews the results of a spatial regression analysis in which he has found a statistically significant clustering within his model’s residuals using a Moran’s I test of spatial autocorrelation. Which statement best describes how he interprets this information?

QUESTION 15

What alternative to the Structured Brainstorming technique should an analyst be aware of if he or she finds that either a senior official is dominating the brainstorming session or junior personnel seem reluctant to participate?

QUESTION 16

An analyst needed to determine the validity of GEOINT information. She verifies that the collection platform was in good operating order at the time the imagery was collected. She verifies that the procedure used to process the GEOINT information conformed to standard operating procedures. She then verifies that the processed intelligence information was not damaged or corrupted in the storage and retrieval procedures used to access it for her exploitation. Finally, she concludes the GEOINT information is valid. Which phrase best describes the form of reasoning she used?

QUESTION 17

Which of the following visions do Heuer and Pherson (2012) imagine with regard to the state of structured analytic techniques by the year 2015?

QUESTION 18

An analyst polled several subject matter experts about a question she is tackling as part of an intelligence problem. She collated all the responses into a single packet, removed the names of the experts, and then sent the whole packet to each expert for their revised assessments. She repeated this process several times before preparing a final report. Which structured analytic technique did the analyst use?

QUESTION 19

A local law enforcement analyst establishes contact with a local university to acquire data on seismic activity in the area as part of a vulnerability assessment he is producing. Which type of intelligence information is he acquiring?

QUESTION 20

An analyst keeps having problems with one of his colleagues on a project. Each time he makes a change to suit her demands he ends up facing a new demand requiring even more changes. Finally, he decides that if they are ever going to complete this project, he must figure out exactly what her true interests are. In doing so, he hopes to cause a shift in which aspect of her conflict style?

QUESTION 21

Which of the following is a benefit collaborative working groups receive from diversity?

QUESTION 22

What is one of the differences between advocacy and objective inquiry in a group decision-making process?

QUESTION 23

A military intelligence analyst has been tasked to provide a list of most likely routes an enemy will use to evacuate an area in response to an attack. She reviews intelligence information reports to determine which means of transportation an enemy uses, she conducts an analysis of the terrain to identify possible pathways of egress, and she produces a report responding to the tasking. Which structured analytic technique did she use?

QUESTION 24

A national intelligence analyst is attempting to determine a timeline for when political uprisings in Iran will reach a tipping point leading to the overthrow of the government. Which characteristic of this complex system will prevent her from establishing an accurate timeline?

QUESTION 25

Which structured analytic technique works best early in a project dealing with a complex issue with many interrelated parts, usually following a brainstorming session held to identify all the variables, drivers, or players that may influence the outcome of a situation?

QUESTION 26

Following a very public, embarrassing failure, an intelligence organization worked hard to poll the needs, interests, and perspectives of its members in order to design a new conflict management system. The system worked very well until changes in the security environment forced changes the working conditions of its members, requiring more time away from home for work, lowering expense accounts, and reducing off-site advanced training opportunities. The organization’s members began complaining that their conflict management system no longer met their needs. What went wrong with the system that was established after the failure?

QUESTION 27

An analyst is faced with a complex intelligence problem and he is concerned about avoiding “mission creep”. To make sure he is focus on the core issue, he rephrases that problem several times, asking “why” and “how” until he is satisfied he understands the parameters of the question he is trying to answer. He takes a broad perspective on the issue to see where it might connect to other related issues, and then a narrow perspective to see how far he can break it down into its component parts. He redirects his focus from seeing the issue as identifying threats to seeing it as identifying opportunities to counter threats. Finally, he restates the problem in its exact opposite terms to explore other ways of seeing the issue. What structured analytic technique is he using?

QUESTION 28

When using a decision matrix, based on what should the weights for each criterion be assigned?

QUESTION 29

Which structured analytic technique pits driving forces against the restraining forces in order to encourage an analyst to think through the factors that influence a situation?

QUESTION 30

Red hat analysis is the most accurate when applied to understanding the behaviors of:

QUESTION 31

An analyst is conducting social network analysis and he needs to be able to show directional relationships. Which type of matrix will he use to organize the data?

QUESTION 32

An analyst is working independently on a project to generate at least four different scenarios that he will cross reference with driving forces how he expects the project’s central issue will evolve. Which structured analytical technique is he using?

QUESTION 33

Which structured analytic technique is called for upon the failure of adversarial collaboration?

QUESTION 34

Which statement best describes one of the challenges Lowenthal identifies within the intelligence community to building a knowledge base of lessons learned?

QUESTION 35

What is one of the limits of the quadrant hypothesis generation technique?

QUESTION 36

A criminal intelligence organization manages its analysts’ workload by tracking each case as having a distinct beginning and ending. It tends to view intelligence analysis as a:

QUESTION 37

During a conversation with a young intelligence analyst she confesses to you her frustration with the office where she works because she spends most of her day preparing PowerPoint briefings based on products that only the more experienced analysts are allowed to create. Which is the most likely approach her organization takes to intelligence analysis?

QUESTION 38

An intelligence organization manages conflict by deferring to whomever has the highest rank. Which conflict management model does this organization use?

QUESTION 39

Analysts might use Microsoft Project to model a complex procedure using a matrix that cross references tasks in a process by estimated time periods required for each task. What is the name of this structured analytic technique?

QUESTION 40

Which is one of the limits of empirical testing on structured analytic techniques?