INTELLIGENCE FUNDAMENTALS
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
TOPIC AREA 2 EXAM /
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
2023/2024.
,1. Intelligence Disciplines: -six basic disciplines
-counterintelligence is a 7th
-counterintelligence is also one of the several mission objectives outlines by ourNational
Intelligence Strategy
1) Counterintelligence
2) Human Intelligence
3) Geospatial Intelligence
4) Measurement and Signature Intelligence
5) Open source intelligence
6) Signals Intelligence
7) Technical Intelligence
2. Intelligence Disciplines: Counterintelligence: -information gathered and activ-ities conducted to
identify, deceive, exploit, disrupt, or protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage or
assassinations conducted for or on behalfof foreign powers, organizations or persons, or their agents, or
international terroristorganizations or activities
-activities are undertaken as part of an integrated DoD and national effort to detect,identify, assess,
exploit, penetrate, degrade, counter, disrupt, deceive protect or neutralize, espionage, intelligence
collection, sabotage, sedition, subversion, as- sassination, and terrorist activities, conducted for or on
behalf of foreign powers, organizations persons, or their agents, or international terrorists organizations
or activities directed against U.S. national security interests or DoD and its personnel,information,
materiel, facilities, and activities
3. Counter Intelligence Strategy: -two pronged approach as part of a comprehen-sive CI strategy that
feeds more effective CI functions
Offensive: activities can include exploitation, penetration, degradation, disruption,deception, and
neutralization
Defensive: activities can include detection, identification, and assessment, protec-tion and other
countering activities
, 4. Counterintelligence Activity Functions: counterintelligence activities encom-pass five functions:
1) collection
2) analysis
3) production of intelligence
4) investigation; which include the detection, identification, exploitation, and/or neu-tralization of
adversary intelligence threats directed against the US
5) Functional Services- activities that support other intelligence or DoD operations