Operations Security (OPSEC) Annual Refresher Course

Operations Security (OPSEC) defines Critical Information as: Classified information critical to the development of operational plans. Information needed by NATO forces in order to coordinate coalition and multinational operations. Classified information critical to the development of all military activities All answers are correct. Specific facts about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities needed by adversaries to plan and act effectively against friendly mission accomplishment.

OPSEC planning should focus on: Routine daily activities to include all unclassified information. Routine daily activities that only include classified information. None of the answers apply. Identifying adversary order of battle information. Identifying and protecting critical information.

OPSEC is concerned with: The daily administrative activities associated with military operations. Identifying and controlling classified information. Identifying and controlling classified and unclassified information. Controlling the operations of daily activities. Identifying, controlling, and protecting unclassified information that is associated with specific military operations and activities.

The Joint COMSEC Monitoring Activity provides OPSEC assistance by: Monitoring unclassified government telephones and monitoring NIPR email traffic. Monitoring communications only for specific named operations. Monitoring unclassified government telephones. Monitoring NIPR email traffic. Monitoring of COMMAND SECURITY (COMSEC) processes and procedures.

The identification of critical information is a key part of the OPSEC process because: It focuses the remainder of the OPSEC process on protecting vital information rather than attempting to protect all unclassified information. It is the fifth and final step of the OPSEC process. None of the answers are correct. It focuses the OPSEC process on protecting all unclassified information. It is required by the JTF commander to formulate operational COAs in the planning process.

An OPSEC indicator is defined as: The key piece of OPSEC information used to brief individuals prior to deployments in support of named operations. Friendly detectable actions and open-source information that can be interpreted or pieced together by an adversary to derive critical information. Friendly detectable actions and open-source information that can be pieced together by an adversary to derive critical information as well as an OPSEC measurement used to assess the effectiveness of the program via measures of performance. An OPSEC situation that indicates adversary activity. An OPSEC measurement used to assess the effectiveness of the program via measures of performance and measures of effectiveness.