Module 10 Test Questions and All
Actual Answers.
_____ plans emphasize immediate or very near-term planning issues associated with ongoing
operations. - Answer Current operations
Which of the following is the time-sensitive development of joint OPLANs and OPORDs for the
deployment, employment, and sustainment of assigned and allocated forces and resources in
response to an imminent crisis? - Answer Crisis action plan
_____ plans are synchronized with a farther reaching plan to enhance the efficiency of
execution in the event that they are required to complete a given mission. - Answer
Subordinate Campaign
The _____ help to identify the COA that best accomplishes the mission by determining
supportability of each COA from individual functional perspectives and collaborating in a
knowledge-based environment. - Answer Staff Estimates
During _____, the joint force commander will identify the operational problems to solve and
where to focus the staff's efforts. - Answer Mission analysis
The APEX activity that addresses procedures for describing the operational environment,
including threats to national security, and supports both deliberate planning and crisis action
planning is called _____. - Answer Situational Awareness
In APEX, what do branches and sequels allows planners to do? - Answer Anticipate
significant changes in key planning variables and outline associated assumptions and decision
points
The Joint Force Commander's Initial _____ is refined at the end of the mission analysis process.
- Answer ***NOT***
Initial Courses of Action
During Crisis Action Planning, COA _____ is an objective process where the staff considers COAs
independently of one another, against a set of criteria established by the Joint Force
Commander and staff. - Answer Comparison
, _____ emphasizes planning for branches to current operations. - Answer Future operations
plans
The _____ involves attaining a clear understanding of the CCDR's strategic objectives, and it is
the most important step in the JOPP for the Joint Force Commander. If this step is done
incorrectly, all planning steps which follow could be flawed. - Answer ***NOT***
fifth step, Course of Action Approval
In the Joint Planning Process, _____ describes the situation, establishes command relationships,
and identifies the mission and any planning constraints. - Answer ***NOT***
OPLAN
A Joint Force Command (JFC) headquarters usually focuses at what level of war? - Answer
***NOT***
Strategic
The primary output of operational design is an operational approach, which describes the
operational environment, the problem, and _____. - Answer ***NOT***
a clear understanding of the ends, ways, and means
What APEX activity is a cyclical process that assures the resulting plan has been properly
adapted to address any important factors that may have changed from the time the plan was
formulated? - Answer IPR R
What APEX activity describes the operational environment, including threats to national
security, and supports both deliberate planning and crisis action planning? - Answer
Situational awareness
A(n) _____ issued to the Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC) initiates the
development of COAs; it also requests that the supported CCDR submit a commander's
estimate of the situation with a recommended COA to resolve the situation. - Answer
planning directive
The differences between deliberate planning and CAP primarily concern the following areas,
except: - Answer ***NOT***