IBOLC COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Steps to Complete "Receive the Mission" - ✔✔* Assess the time available to
prepare and execute the mission
* Prepare and initial Timeline for planning and executing the mission
* Determine the total amount of time to plan and prepare
*As planning continues, use the initial planning-time analysis to conduct a detailed time
analysis
* Analyze the time the unit has available
*Prepare initial timeline
✔✔What is a WARNO? - ✔✔A preliminary notice of an order or action to follow.
✔✔When can a leader make a tentative plan? - ✔✔After he issues his own WARNO
and after he receives the company's third WARNO or until he has enough information to
proceed.
✔✔What does the PL do during mission analysis? - ✔✔Restates the mission
Conducts initial risk assessment
Identifies a tentative decisive point
Defines his own intent
✔✔What does Mission Analysis Answer? - ✔✔What is my mission?
What is the current situation?
How do we accomplish the mission?
What are the risks?
✔✔What is a mission? - ✔✔A mission is a task and purpose clearly indicating the action
to be taken and the reason for for the action.
✔✔What does Make a tentative Plan consist of? - ✔✔a. Mission Analysis
b. COA development
c. COA Analysis
d. COA Comparision
e. COA selection
✔✔Restating the Mission involves what? - ✔✔Analyzing METT-TC
Higher Headquarters (1&2)
Unit's Purpose
Constraints
Tasks(specified, implied and essential)
5 W's
OAKOC and MCOO
Define Operational Environment
, Conclusions from Terrain Analysis
5 Aspects of Weather
Analysis of Enemy
Analysis of Time available
Civil Considerations
ID Tentative Decision points
✔✔Mision-ett-tc - ✔✔Mission, intent and concept
Purpose
Tasks (specified, implied, essential)
Constraints
Restated Mission (5 Ws)
Significant Conclusions
✔✔m Terrian t-tc - ✔✔Define Operational Environment
*AO
*AI
OAKOC
Weather (5 Aspects)
Significant Conclusions
✔✔metTIME-tc - ✔✔*Battalion Times
*Hard Times
*Company TLS
*Light Data
*Enemy Data
*1/3, 2/3 rule
*Significant Conclutions
✔✔STEP 3 mett-TROOPSc - ✔✔Leadership
Morale
Training and Experience
Capabilities by WFF elements
Significant conclusions
✔✔STEP 3 mENEMYtt-tc - ✔✔General Situation
Disposition (How the enemy is arrayed)
Composition (Vehicles, soldiers and Equipment)
Strength (by unit. %)
Vulnerabilities
Capabilities by WFF (Reserves, CBRN, fires, recon)
MPCOA and MDCOA
Significant Conclusions
High Value Target List
High Pay-off target list
GRADED A+
✔✔Steps to Complete "Receive the Mission" - ✔✔* Assess the time available to
prepare and execute the mission
* Prepare and initial Timeline for planning and executing the mission
* Determine the total amount of time to plan and prepare
*As planning continues, use the initial planning-time analysis to conduct a detailed time
analysis
* Analyze the time the unit has available
*Prepare initial timeline
✔✔What is a WARNO? - ✔✔A preliminary notice of an order or action to follow.
✔✔When can a leader make a tentative plan? - ✔✔After he issues his own WARNO
and after he receives the company's third WARNO or until he has enough information to
proceed.
✔✔What does the PL do during mission analysis? - ✔✔Restates the mission
Conducts initial risk assessment
Identifies a tentative decisive point
Defines his own intent
✔✔What does Mission Analysis Answer? - ✔✔What is my mission?
What is the current situation?
How do we accomplish the mission?
What are the risks?
✔✔What is a mission? - ✔✔A mission is a task and purpose clearly indicating the action
to be taken and the reason for for the action.
✔✔What does Make a tentative Plan consist of? - ✔✔a. Mission Analysis
b. COA development
c. COA Analysis
d. COA Comparision
e. COA selection
✔✔Restating the Mission involves what? - ✔✔Analyzing METT-TC
Higher Headquarters (1&2)
Unit's Purpose
Constraints
Tasks(specified, implied and essential)
5 W's
OAKOC and MCOO
Define Operational Environment
, Conclusions from Terrain Analysis
5 Aspects of Weather
Analysis of Enemy
Analysis of Time available
Civil Considerations
ID Tentative Decision points
✔✔Mision-ett-tc - ✔✔Mission, intent and concept
Purpose
Tasks (specified, implied, essential)
Constraints
Restated Mission (5 Ws)
Significant Conclusions
✔✔m Terrian t-tc - ✔✔Define Operational Environment
*AO
*AI
OAKOC
Weather (5 Aspects)
Significant Conclusions
✔✔metTIME-tc - ✔✔*Battalion Times
*Hard Times
*Company TLS
*Light Data
*Enemy Data
*1/3, 2/3 rule
*Significant Conclutions
✔✔STEP 3 mett-TROOPSc - ✔✔Leadership
Morale
Training and Experience
Capabilities by WFF elements
Significant conclusions
✔✔STEP 3 mENEMYtt-tc - ✔✔General Situation
Disposition (How the enemy is arrayed)
Composition (Vehicles, soldiers and Equipment)
Strength (by unit. %)
Vulnerabilities
Capabilities by WFF (Reserves, CBRN, fires, recon)
MPCOA and MDCOA
Significant Conclusions
High Value Target List
High Pay-off target list
