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1. (201) Which scenario has a high probability of happening if Global Positioning System satellites fail? |
d. Disrupt police or fire operations around the world. |
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2. (201) How does the Joint Publication 5–0, Joint Operation Planning, explain how the Center of Gravity works in regards to military planning? |
c. It is the source of power that provides moral or physical strength. |
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3. (201) Which is a characteristic of the Centers of Gravity? |
a. Exists at each level of war. |
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4. (201) What is negatively impacted if we cannot protect our satellites in space? |
b. Military and economy. |
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5. (201) How does the Department of Defense promote the responsible and safe use of space? |
d. By following the United States Government’s Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices. |
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6. (202) How does space power operate differently from other forms of military power? |
a. It has global perspective. |
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7. (202) Which regulation addresses the command and control of space forces and methods of planning for space operations? |
a. Joint Publication 3–14, Space Operations. |
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8. (202) How many functional capabilities are needed so that space situational awareness can make assessments on United States and cooperative space systems? |
d. 4. |
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9. (202) What is the fourth functional component space situational awareness uses to make assessments? |
d. Data integration and exploitation to tie together data. |
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10. (202) What is the fifth space force enhancement capability function? |
c. Satellite communications. |
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11. (203) What space system segment provides the equipment for users to receive space services? |
d. Ground. |
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12. (203) What important trend led early space missions from monitoring strategic forces to focusing on important world events and situations? |
b. Continuous awareness. |
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13. (203) Which is an operational art element of graceful degradation? |
b. Data fusion. |
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14. (204) What short-notice event is considered a military operation other than war and is support by United States forces? |
a. Forest fires. |
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15. (204) Which is not a Global Positioning System service provided to industry by space systems? |
d. Surveillance monitoring. |
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16. (204) What country drives the world economy? |
d. United States. |
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17. (205) Which necessary quality from executing phases of warfare deals with responsive communications and enables command and control? |
a. Effects. |
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18. (205) Which joint campaign or operations phase has the joint force commander executing offensive operations at the earliest possible time? |
d. Seize the initiative. |
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19. (205) Annex N came about after review of |
b. Desert Storm operations. |
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20. (205) What space operations process integrates major operations and campaigns at the joint force commander and air component levels? |
c. The joint operation planning process. |
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20. (205) What space operations process integrates major operations and campaigns at the joint force commander and air component levels? |
c. The joint operation planning process. |
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21. (206) Russia’s space program is organized around the |
c. federal space agency. |
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22. (206) What manned spacecraft is China’s centerpiece space program? |
d. Shenzhou. |
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23. (206) What typically defines an alliance relationship? |
c. Long-term objectives. |
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24. (207) Many satellite system designs come from what era? |
a. Cold War. |
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25. (207) What capability provides a satellite system the ability to support the functions necessary for mission success with higher probability and shorter periods of reduced capability? |
a. Resilience. |
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26. (207) Placing space capabilities onto multiple platforms to improve mission survivability is a characteristic of |
b. disaggregation. |
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27. (208) The foundation of joint space doctrine establishing principles for the integrated employment of space capabilities is stated in Joint Publication |
b. 3–14. |
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28. (208) The satellite communication system expert for Wideband Global Satellite Communications is the United States |
d. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command. |
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29. (208) What two service branches are deployed to operate the Joint Tactical Ground Stations? |
a. Army and Navy. |
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30. (208) What potentially increases as the United States dependence on space capabilities increase? |
a. Vulnerability. |
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31. (208) Since the inception of joint doctrine there are now how many principles of war? |
d. 12. |
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32. (208) Who is responsible for prioritizing space capabilities and resources required to meet the supported commander’s needs? |
d. Commander, United States Strategic Command. |
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33. (209) The ability to assure the United States’ access to space while denying adversaries the use of space is the definition of space |
c. control. |
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34. (209) Which article of the Outer Space Treaty provides two arms control provisions limiting military space usage? |
b. Article IV. |
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35. (209) Who issues standing rules of engagement? |
d. The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. |
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36. (210) When they are unable to match the United States and its allies in military technology, enemies can potentially use |
c. asymmetric attack. |
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37. (210) Measures aimed at preventing freedom of action in a confined area that is under an enemy’s control are called |
b. area-denial. |
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38. (211) What Air Force Space Command commander subscribed to a “whole of government” approach to deterrence following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks? |
b. General Kevin Chilton. |
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39. (211) Which dimension involves decision makers and their target audience to think, perceive, visualize, and decide? |
b. Cognitive. |
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40. (211) Which non-space option denies the use of space by cutting buried communication lines? |
a. Sabotage. |
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41. (211) Which non-space option denies the use of space by inserting false data? |
c. Non-kinetic effects. |
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42. (212) Which Operationally Responsive Space platform is a modular, reconfigurable, multimission satellite bus developed using a Modular Open Systems approach? |
b. 2. |
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43. (212) Which Operationally Responsive Space platform demonstrated an integrated payload stack for a low-cost payload capability and decreased range costs through automated targeting and range safety processes? |
c. 3. |
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44. (213) After Desert Storm what system was created to receive faster missile waring data in theater? |
a. Theater event system. |
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45. (213) Which Theater Missile Defense pillar involves delaying/disrupting the enemy’s ability to launch theater and strategic missiles? |
b. Attack operations. |
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46. (213) What is critical to ensure a hasty, unfounded response is not made in a possible missile attack? |
c. Dual-phenomenology. |
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47. (213) All operations within the United States’ Arctic portion of the area of responsibility fall under the United States |
c. Northern Command. |
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48. (213) Which North American Aerospace Defense End State adapts to meet emerging strategic and operational challenges through modernization concepts and for structure requirements? |
d. 4. |
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49. (213) What is the nerve center for United States Strategic Command? |
b. Global Operations Center. |
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50. (214) What is an Offensive Space Control attack a form of? |
b. Electronic. |
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51. (214) What is used to disrupt a target signal strength of a satellite receiver? |
a. Jammer. |
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52. (214) What cell will most likely coordinate Offensive Space Control operations? |
d. Special Technical Operations. |
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53. (215) What system has nuclear detection as a tertiary mission? |
b. Global Positioning System. |
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54. (215) The Global Positioning System is based on what concept? |
d. Trilateration. |
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55. (215) How many satellites can a receiver view from most locations with a full Global Positioning System constellation? |
b. 4. |
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56. (215) Which Global Positioning System Augmentation transmits corrections across the entire United States and potentially worldwide? |
a. Wide Area Augmentation System. |
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57. (216) Which band does not provide services in satellite communications? |
a. Very high frequency. |
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58. (216) Commercial sources provide what percentage of satellite communications? |
c. 50. |
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59. (217) The traditional missions of mapping, charting, and geodesy are included in which mission area? |
c. Environmental. |
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60. (217) Which agency uses the Defense Meteorological Support Program to provide the Air Force and Army with web-based weather products for battlespace characterization? |
b. Air Force Weather Agency. |
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61. (217) What positive side effect occurs when the Earth’s atmosphere expands and creates an increase in atmospheric drag? |
a. Reduced space debris. |
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62. (218) The preferred orbit for weather and reconnaissance is |
a. Low Earth. |
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63. (218) Which orbit is preferred for cellular telephone communications? |
b. Medium Earth. |
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64. (218) Which anti-satellite weapon is launched into an orbit similar to the target satellite? |
b. Co-orbital. |
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65. (218) How much warning time do satellites in geostationary orbits have against ground-based anti-satellite launches? |
d. 3 to 6 hours. |
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66. (219) The CORONA program was the earliest pioneer in what type of intelligence? |
b. Imagery. |
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67. (219) Where is the National Reconnaissance Office Operations Squadron located? |
c. Schriever. |
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68. (220) As defined by the Department of Defense, what type of intelligence is derived from the collection and exploitation of visual photography, wherein images of objects are reproduced optically or electronically? |
b. Imagery. |
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69. (221) What orbit can provide satellite coverage in a matter of minutes? |
b. Low Earth. |
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70. (221) When using current systems, what imagery resolution size is usually referred to for each pixel sample of a square area on the ground? |
c. Meters. |