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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.

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.

3. (201) Which is a characteristic of the Centers of Gravity?

a. Exists at each level of war.

4. (201) What is negatively impacted if we cannot protect our satellites in space?

b. Military and economy.

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.

6. (202) How does space power operate differently from other forms of military power?

a. It has global perspective.

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.

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.

9. (202) What is the fourth functional component space situational awareness uses to make assessments?

d. Data integration and exploitation to tie together data.

10. (202) What is the fifth space force enhancement capability function?

c. Satellite communications.

11. (203) What space system segment provides the equipment for users to receive space services?

d. Ground.

12. (203) What important trend led early space missions from monitoring strategic forces to focusing on important world events and situations?

b. Continuous awareness.

13. (203) Which is an operational art element of graceful degradation?

b. Data fusion.

14. (204) What short-notice event is considered a military operation other than war and is support by United States forces?

a. Forest fires.

15. (204) Which is not a Global Positioning System service provided to industry by space systems?

d. Surveillance monitoring.

16. (204) What country drives the world economy?

d. United States.

17. (205) Which necessary quality from executing phases of warfare deals with responsive communications and enables command and control?

a. Effects.

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.

19. (205) Annex N came about after review of

b. Desert Storm operations.

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.

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.

21. (206) Russia’s space program is organized around the

c. federal space agency.

22. (206) What manned spacecraft is China’s centerpiece space program?

d. Shenzhou.

23. (206) What typically defines an alliance relationship?

c. Long-term objectives.

24. (207) Many satellite system designs come from what era?

a. Cold War.

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.

26. (207) Placing space capabilities onto multiple platforms to improve mission survivability is a characteristic of

b. disaggregation.

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.

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.

29. (208) What two service branches are deployed to operate the Joint Tactical Ground Stations?

a. Army and Navy.

30. (208) What potentially increases as the United States dependence on space capabilities increase?

a. Vulnerability.

31. (208) Since the inception of joint doctrine there are now how many principles of war?

d. 12.

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.

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.

34. (209) Which article of the Outer Space Treaty provides two arms control provisions limiting military space usage?

b. Article IV.

35. (209) Who issues standing rules of engagement?

d. The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

36. (210) When they are unable to match the United States and its allies in military technology, enemies can potentially use

c. asymmetric attack.

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.

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.

39. (211) Which dimension involves decision makers and their target audience to think, perceive, visualize, and decide?

b. Cognitive.

40. (211) Which non-space option denies the use of space by cutting buried communication lines?

a. Sabotage.

41. (211) Which non-space option denies the use of space by inserting false data?

c. Non-kinetic effects.

42. (212) Which Operationally Responsive Space platform is a modular, reconfigurable, multimission satellite bus developed using a Modular Open Systems approach?

b. 2.

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.

44. (213) After Desert Storm what system was created to receive faster missile waring data in theater?

a. Theater event system.

45. (213) Which Theater Missile Defense pillar involves delaying/disrupting the enemy’s ability to launch theater and strategic missiles?

b. Attack operations.

46. (213) What is critical to ensure a hasty, unfounded response is not made in a possible missile attack?

c. Dual-phenomenology.

47. (213) All operations within the United States’ Arctic portion of the area of responsibility fall under the United States

c. Northern Command.

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.

49. (213) What is the nerve center for United States Strategic Command?

b. Global Operations Center.

50. (214) What is an Offensive Space Control attack a form of?

b. Electronic.

51. (214) What is used to disrupt a target signal strength of a satellite receiver?

a. Jammer.

52. (214) What cell will most likely coordinate Offensive Space Control operations?

d. Special Technical Operations.

53. (215) What system has nuclear detection as a tertiary mission?

b. Global Positioning System.

54. (215) The Global Positioning System is based on what concept?

d. Trilateration.

55. (215) How many satellites can a receiver view from most locations with a full Global Positioning System constellation?

b. 4.

56. (215) Which Global Positioning System Augmentation transmits corrections across the entire United States and potentially worldwide?

a. Wide Area Augmentation System.

57. (216) Which band does not provide services in satellite communications?

a. Very high frequency.

58. (216) Commercial sources provide what percentage of satellite communications?

c. 50.

59. (217) The traditional missions of mapping, charting, and geodesy are included in which mission area?

c. Environmental.

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.

61. (217) What positive side effect occurs when the Earth’s atmosphere expands and creates an increase in atmospheric drag?

a. Reduced space debris.

62. (218) The preferred orbit for weather and reconnaissance is

a. Low Earth.

63. (218) Which orbit is preferred for cellular telephone communications?

b. Medium Earth.

64. (218) Which anti-satellite weapon is launched into an orbit similar to the target satellite?

b. Co-orbital.

65. (218) How much warning time do satellites in geostationary orbits have against ground-based anti-satellite launches?

d. 3 to 6 hours.

66. (219) The CORONA program was the earliest pioneer in what type of intelligence?

b. Imagery.

67. (219) Where is the National Reconnaissance Office Operations Squadron located?

c. Schriever.

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.

69. (221) What orbit can provide satellite coverage in a matter of minutes?

b. Low Earth.

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.