IBOLC LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Defensive Tasks - ✔✔Area, mobile, retrograde
✔✔Sequence of the defense - ✔✔1. Recon, security, enemy preparatory fires
2. Occupation
3. Approach of enemy attack
4. Enemy assault
5. Counter attack
6. Consolidation and reorganization
✔✔Forms of reconnaissance - ✔✔Route, zone, area, recon by force, special
✔✔Mortar fire direction procedures - ✔✔Adjust fire-
- target location: grid, polar, shift from known point
- grid, altitude, direction
- target description: SNAP(size, nature, activity, protection)
- method of engagement: danger close, ammunition, trajectory
- method of confirmation: when ready, my command, time on target
✔✔Mortar bracketing technique - ✔✔Add, drop, bracket, 800-400-200-100-50, fire for
effect
✔✔Range Safety - ✔✔Surface Danger Zone:
Impact area, dispersion area, ricochet area, secondary danger zones, backblast area
✔✔Property Accountability Policies - ✔✔Command- can't be delegated
Direct- you sign for it
Supervisory- within your span of control
Personal- loaned to you
Custodial- supply sergeant
✔✔8 step training model - ✔✔1. Plan training
2. Train/certify leaders
3. Recon
4. Issue order
5. Rehearse
6. Execute
7. Evaluate
8. Retrain
✔✔Intelligence preparation of the battlefield - ✔✔Define battlefield environment
Describe the battlefield's effects
Evaluate threat
, Determine threat coas
✔✔Recon fundamentals - ✔✔Ensure continuous recon
Do not keep assets in reserve
Orient on obj
Report rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain contact
Develop situation rapidly
✔✔Course of action development - ✔✔Analyze combat power
Generate options
Array forces
Develop scheme or maneuver
Assign HQ/responsibility
Prepare COA
✔✔ Actions by friendly force - ✔✔Assault, attack by fire, breach, bypass, clear, combat
search and rescue, consolidation and reorganization, control, disengagement, exfiltrate,
follow and assume, follow and support, linkup, occupy, reduce, retain, secure, seize,
support by fire, suppress
✔✔Effects on enemy force - ✔✔Block, canalize, contain, defeat, destroy, disrupt, fix,
isolate, neutralize, penetrate, turn
✔✔Forms of attack - ✔✔Ambush, raid, feint, demonstration, spoiling attack, exploitation,
pursuit
✔✔Forms of maneuver - ✔✔Front attack, flank attack, infiltration, penetration, turning
movement, envelopment
✔✔Troop leading procedures - ✔✔1. Receive the mission
2. Issue a warno
3. Make a tentative plan
4. Initiate movement
5. Conduct recon
6. Complete plan
7. Issue order
8. Supervise and refine
✔✔Rehearsals - ✔✔Backbrief, confirmation brief, supporting rehearsal, battle drill/ SOP
rehearsal/ combined arms rehearsals
✔✔Characteristics of the offense - ✔✔Surprise
Concentration
GRADED A+
✔✔Defensive Tasks - ✔✔Area, mobile, retrograde
✔✔Sequence of the defense - ✔✔1. Recon, security, enemy preparatory fires
2. Occupation
3. Approach of enemy attack
4. Enemy assault
5. Counter attack
6. Consolidation and reorganization
✔✔Forms of reconnaissance - ✔✔Route, zone, area, recon by force, special
✔✔Mortar fire direction procedures - ✔✔Adjust fire-
- target location: grid, polar, shift from known point
- grid, altitude, direction
- target description: SNAP(size, nature, activity, protection)
- method of engagement: danger close, ammunition, trajectory
- method of confirmation: when ready, my command, time on target
✔✔Mortar bracketing technique - ✔✔Add, drop, bracket, 800-400-200-100-50, fire for
effect
✔✔Range Safety - ✔✔Surface Danger Zone:
Impact area, dispersion area, ricochet area, secondary danger zones, backblast area
✔✔Property Accountability Policies - ✔✔Command- can't be delegated
Direct- you sign for it
Supervisory- within your span of control
Personal- loaned to you
Custodial- supply sergeant
✔✔8 step training model - ✔✔1. Plan training
2. Train/certify leaders
3. Recon
4. Issue order
5. Rehearse
6. Execute
7. Evaluate
8. Retrain
✔✔Intelligence preparation of the battlefield - ✔✔Define battlefield environment
Describe the battlefield's effects
Evaluate threat
, Determine threat coas
✔✔Recon fundamentals - ✔✔Ensure continuous recon
Do not keep assets in reserve
Orient on obj
Report rapidly and accurately
Retain freedom of maneuver
Gain and maintain contact
Develop situation rapidly
✔✔Course of action development - ✔✔Analyze combat power
Generate options
Array forces
Develop scheme or maneuver
Assign HQ/responsibility
Prepare COA
✔✔ Actions by friendly force - ✔✔Assault, attack by fire, breach, bypass, clear, combat
search and rescue, consolidation and reorganization, control, disengagement, exfiltrate,
follow and assume, follow and support, linkup, occupy, reduce, retain, secure, seize,
support by fire, suppress
✔✔Effects on enemy force - ✔✔Block, canalize, contain, defeat, destroy, disrupt, fix,
isolate, neutralize, penetrate, turn
✔✔Forms of attack - ✔✔Ambush, raid, feint, demonstration, spoiling attack, exploitation,
pursuit
✔✔Forms of maneuver - ✔✔Front attack, flank attack, infiltration, penetration, turning
movement, envelopment
✔✔Troop leading procedures - ✔✔1. Receive the mission
2. Issue a warno
3. Make a tentative plan
4. Initiate movement
5. Conduct recon
6. Complete plan
7. Issue order
8. Supervise and refine
✔✔Rehearsals - ✔✔Backbrief, confirmation brief, supporting rehearsal, battle drill/ SOP
rehearsal/ combined arms rehearsals
✔✔Characteristics of the offense - ✔✔Surprise
Concentration
