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The Certified Defense All-Source Analysis AC (CDASA AC) questions and answers
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Name: Score:53 Multiple choice questions
Definition 1 of 53
- Perform functions with awareness of personal assumptions and reasoning
- Employ reasoning techniques and practical mechanisms that reveal and mitigate bias
- Be alert to influence of existing analytic positions and judgments and consider alternative
perspectives
- Ensure analysis is not unduly constrained by previous judgments
Independent (Analytic Standard)
Timely (Analytic Standard)
Objective (Analytic Standard)
Retention of Analytic Products
Definition 2 of 53
- an endnote
- must be used each time a source is directly cited
Source Descriptor
Source Summary Statement
Source Reference Citation
Appended Reference Citation
,Definition 3 of 53
responsible for analytic communication across the IC. confirms/directs application of analytic
standards (NOT the DNI); conducts IC-wide program of periodic review of products; oversees
analytic product evaluation programs in IC elements
Deputy DNI for Intelligence Integration (DDNI/II)
clarity and logic in arguementation (ATS)
Downgraded or sanitized copies of covered analytic
products should contain sourcing information. t/f
Duration of classification
Definition 4 of 53
Sourcing Requirements for Disseminated Analytic Products by IC elements - Establishes the
requirements for sourcing information in disseminated products; sourcing requirements
included in covered products to enhance credibility; every product will have sourcing
information
Icd 203
Icd 208
Icd 710
ICD 206
Definition 5 of 53
- customers can receive or easily discover and obtain intelligence in a form they can easily use
and are able to share to accomplish the mission
- communicating the right information in the right form to the right people at the right time
- may create conflict between a desire to broaden dissemination and a need to protect
sources/methods
What is writing for maximum utility?
What are the components of a SRC?
Analysis of alternatives (ATS)
quality/credibility of sources (ATS)
,Definition 6 of 53
conclusions based on the underlying intelligence information, analysis, and assumptions
product categories
information
decision making
judgement
Definition 7 of 53
IC elements shall review and where required revise their training programs to address
explicitly how to maximize product utility.
Develop training programs that ignore customer feedback
Train to think of customer inclusively (WMU principle)
Focus solely on profit margins and sales targets
Emphasize internal processes over customer needs
Definition 8 of 53
- Analytic products should ID underlying sources and methodologies upon which judgments
are based
- include accuracy and completeness, possibleD&D, age and/or currency of information,
technical elements of collection, and source access, validation, motivation, bias, or expertise
- Source types, Access, Reliability, Credibility/Quality, Context
relevance and implications (ATS)
quality/credibility of sources (ATS)
What is writing for maximum utility?
What are the components of a SRC?
, Definition 9 of 53
- upon classification, OCA establishes a specific date or event for declassification
- if not possible, information becomes declassified 10 years after original decision
- for sensitive information, OCA can set a declassification date up to 25 years
Duration of classification
Retention of Analytic Products
express uncertainty (ATS)
Derivative classification authority
Definition 10 of 53
- the likelihood of occurrence of an event or development, and the analyst's confidence in the
basis for this judgment
- Use of estimative language
- how does uncertainty affect the analysis?
- ID indicators that would alter uncertainty levels
express uncertainty (ATS)
Timely (Analytic Standard)
Duration of classification
Analysis of alternatives (ATS)
Definition 11 of 53
IC personnel or customers must be able co-discover intelligence, information and analyses
that address their requirement or aid in mission accomplishment.
For confidential, secret, and top secret: unauthorized disclosure could result in...
Discoverability (WMU principle)
What is analytic communication
Express uncertainty (ats)
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