IBOLC PRACTICE EXAM TIPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: TARGET - ✔✔Frontal fire: long axis of beaten
zone is at a right angle to the front of a target
Flanking Fire: firing at the side of a target
Oblique Fire: long axis of beaten zone is at an angle other than a right angle to the front
of the target
enfilade fire: long axis of beaten zone is the long axis of the target (frontal or flanking)
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: WEAPON - ✔✔Fixed fire: depth and width of
beaten zone covers the target
traversing fire: changes in width by left and right
Searching fire: changes in depth by elevation
traversing and searching: changes in width and depth
free gun: single point targets with dramatic changes in width and depth
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: FIRE - ✔✔Trajectory- path of round in flight
Maximum ordinate- highest point in trajectory
Cone of Fire- the pattern of fire from the trajectories of a burst
Beaten Zone- elliptical pattern on bullet impacts
Effective beaten zone: 85% of rounds fall
Danger Space- point in trajectory where bullet rises less than 1.8 meters
✔✔Elements of multi-dimensional urban battlefield - ✔✔Airspace
Surface area- street level
super-surface area- roofs and upper floors
subsurface area- basements and below ground floor
✔✔Urban patterns - ✔✔Satellite, network, linear, segment
✔✔Conditions of urban environments - ✔✔Surgical, precision, high intensity
, ✔✔Fundamentals of urban operations - ✔✔Perform aggressive information operations,
Maintain close combat capability,
Avoid attrition approach,
Control the essential,
Minimize collateral damage,
Separate combatants from non-combatants,
Preserve critical infrastructure,
Restore essential services,
Understand human dimension,
Create a collaborative information environment,
Transition control
✔✔SOSRA - ✔✔Suppress, obscure, secure, reduce, assault
✔✔Battle Positions - ✔✔-Primary
-alternate- cover same AoA as primary(on flank)
-supplementary- covers different AoA
-subsequent- covers same AoA as primary(in depth)
✔✔Movement techniques - ✔✔Traveling, traveling overwatch, bounding overwatch
✔✔5 S's for EPW handling - ✔✔1. Search
2. Segregate
3. Silence
4. Safeguard
5. Speed to the rear
✔✔Types of counseling - ✔✔- event
- performance
- professional growth
-
✔✔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
GRADED A+
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: TARGET - ✔✔Frontal fire: long axis of beaten
zone is at a right angle to the front of a target
Flanking Fire: firing at the side of a target
Oblique Fire: long axis of beaten zone is at an angle other than a right angle to the front
of the target
enfilade fire: long axis of beaten zone is the long axis of the target (frontal or flanking)
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: WEAPON - ✔✔Fixed fire: depth and width of
beaten zone covers the target
traversing fire: changes in width by left and right
Searching fire: changes in depth by elevation
traversing and searching: changes in width and depth
free gun: single point targets with dramatic changes in width and depth
✔✔Characteristics of machine guns: FIRE - ✔✔Trajectory- path of round in flight
Maximum ordinate- highest point in trajectory
Cone of Fire- the pattern of fire from the trajectories of a burst
Beaten Zone- elliptical pattern on bullet impacts
Effective beaten zone: 85% of rounds fall
Danger Space- point in trajectory where bullet rises less than 1.8 meters
✔✔Elements of multi-dimensional urban battlefield - ✔✔Airspace
Surface area- street level
super-surface area- roofs and upper floors
subsurface area- basements and below ground floor
✔✔Urban patterns - ✔✔Satellite, network, linear, segment
✔✔Conditions of urban environments - ✔✔Surgical, precision, high intensity
, ✔✔Fundamentals of urban operations - ✔✔Perform aggressive information operations,
Maintain close combat capability,
Avoid attrition approach,
Control the essential,
Minimize collateral damage,
Separate combatants from non-combatants,
Preserve critical infrastructure,
Restore essential services,
Understand human dimension,
Create a collaborative information environment,
Transition control
✔✔SOSRA - ✔✔Suppress, obscure, secure, reduce, assault
✔✔Battle Positions - ✔✔-Primary
-alternate- cover same AoA as primary(on flank)
-supplementary- covers different AoA
-subsequent- covers same AoA as primary(in depth)
✔✔Movement techniques - ✔✔Traveling, traveling overwatch, bounding overwatch
✔✔5 S's for EPW handling - ✔✔1. Search
2. Segregate
3. Silence
4. Safeguard
5. Speed to the rear
✔✔Types of counseling - ✔✔- event
- performance
- professional growth
-
✔✔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
