CDASA I EXAM ACTUAL QUESTION AND VERIFIED

CDASA I EXAM (ACTUAL / ) QUESTION AND VERIFIED

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Human Intelligence (HUMINT) - ----Answers-----The collection of information that is provided directly by a human source.

Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) - ----Answers-----Intelligence that includes representations of objects reproduced electronically or by optical means on film, electronic display devices, or other media. Can be derived from visual photography, radar sensors, infrared sensors, lasers, and electro-optics.

Intelligence Cycle - ----Answers-----The steps through which information is converted into intelligence and made available to users.

Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT) - ---- Answers-----Technically derived intelligence data other than imagery and SIGINT. The data results in intelligence that locates, identifies, or describes distinctive characteristics of targets. It employs a broad group of disciplines including nuclear, optical, radio frequency, acoustics, seismic, and materials sciences.

National Intelligence Council (NIC) - ----Answers-----IC's council for midterm and long-term strategic thinking. Its primary functions are to support the DNI, provide a focal point 1 / 2

for policymakers to task the IC to answer their questions, reach out to nongovernment experts in academia and the private sector to broaden the IC's perspective, contribute to the IC's effort to allocate its resources to policymakers' changing needs, and lead the IC's efforts to produce NIE's and other NIC products.

National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) - ----Answers------ Produced by the NIC - Express the coordinated assessment of the IC and thus, represent the most authoritative assessment of the DNI with respect to particular national security issues - Contain the IC's coordinated judgement regarding the probable course of future events

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) - ----Answers-----Publicly available information appearing in print or electronic form, including information from radio, television, newspapers, journals, the Internet, commercial databases, and videos, graphics, and drawings used to enhance intelligence analysis and reporting.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - ----Answers-----Intelligence derived from signals intercepts comprising, individually or in combination, all communications intelligence (COMINT), electronic intelligence (ELINT), and/or FISINT.

Collection Operations Management - ---nAswers-----C-OM

CR - ----Answers-----Collection Request

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