Operations Security
_ is an information-related capability that preserves friendly essential secrecy by using a process to identify, control, and protect critical information and indicators.
Operations Security
Last week, you arrived at your unit’s deployed location. This is your first deployment, and your family is naturally worried about your safety due to recent regional hostilities. To help ease their concerns, every evening, you post a new video on social media for them to see around the Forward Operating Site (FOS) to show you are well protected. You even show pride in the unit’s mission by highlighting daily successes and future goals to regain regional stability. Your actions go against DAF social media guidelines because:
1. Showing details of the base can give hostile actors insight into key defensive measures 2. critical infrastructure and highlight daily success can give hostile actors a retaliatory target while pointing out future goals can give them areas to focus their defense.
Which of the following is NOT an attribute of an effective Department of the Air Force Ambassador?
A. Active in the community
B. Shares all information about the job with friends and family
C. Ensures social media activity remains within the bounds of security, accuracy, propriety, and policy
D. Positively represents the DAF and its image
B. Shares all information about the job with friends and family
Which of the following is a DAF strategy and editing guideline for writing official Air Force & Space Force papers?
A. Ensure your reader is comfortable
B. Organize and outline Air Force and Space Force paper
C. Impress your reader with large words
D. Write passively, opposed to actively
B. Organize and outline Air Force and Space Force paper
His supervisor understands that Maj Blanton does not care about rewards more than being able to accomplish tasks the way he wants. Which element of motivation has Maj Blanton's supervisor used?
Intrinsic Motivation
_________ is any entity with goals counter to your own.
Adversary
While researching online, you see a local media report on your school’s president. The video is edited, and his words are taken out of context in the report to cast the president in a negative manner. This is an example of:
Malinformation
True or False: A responsibility of the Public Affairs Office is to enhance morale and readiness Airmen and Guardians?
True
Select a non-example of a DAF strategy and editing guideline for writing official Air Force & Space Force papers.
A. Research your topic
B. Support your ideas
C. Keep feet moving
D. Fight for Feedback
C. Keep feet moving
Summarizes the four main aspects of Autonomy?
An employee given opportunities to flexibly choose what to work on and when to work on it, the freedom to deliver a product however they choose to, the ability to select their own personnel, and having limitless boundaries to complete their duties.
____________ exists when the adversary is capable of collecting critical information and/or indicators, correctly analyzing them, and acting quickly enough to impact friendly objectives.
Vulnerability
Lt Conkle is reading an article after work on a popular site during lunch. Several statements throughout the piece do not sound correct and seem to force emotional reactions rather than solid arguments. Lt Conkle looks for sources in the article and other work the author has written. What action is Lt Conkle taking in disinformation protection?
Question the source
Describes the guidelines for communication outlined in AFMAN 35-101 to facilitate SECDEF’s Principles of Information mandate.
Present information professionally, simply, and honestly; confine information to your personal field of expertise; reflect DAF policy
List DAF strategies and editing guidelines for writing official Air Force & Space Force papers.
Analyze your purpose and audience/reader, Research your topic, Support your ideas, Organize and outline, Draft, Edit, and Fight for Feedback and Get Approval
Describe the three laws of mastery.
Having the belief that you can accomplish the job, improving your faults while working long and hard, and realizing mastery may never fully be reached.
The following statement describes what step of the five-step OPSEC Process? Assessing the adversary’s ability to exploit vulnerabilities that would lead to the exposure of critical information and the potential impact it would have on the mission.
Assess Risk
Which of the following is NOT an example of a tactic of disinformation?
A. Create deepfakes and synthetic media.
B. Stealing online passwords.
C. Astroturfing and flooding the information environment.
D. Spread targeted content.
B. Stealing online passwords.
This type of statement succinctly articulates what an organization does.
Mission Statement
This aspirational statement on the future goal of an organization can influence its people.
Vision Statement
The aim of the SWOT analysis is to help identify:
How to use our strengths and overcome weaknesses to take advantage of opportunities and avoid threats
What are the five steps in the OPSEC Process
1. Identify Critical Information
2. Analyze Threats
3. Analyze Vulnerabilities
4. Assess Risks
5. Apply OPSEC Counter Measures
Which statement BEST describes effectively “talking the frame” when framing the meaning for an organization?
Voice the vision in meetings and display it prominently around the workplace.