LOG Captains Career Course: Common Core Final Exam
LOG CAPTAINS CAREER COURSE: COMMON CORE FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!
You are a company commander deployed to Afghanistan. One of your platoons
captures a team of enemy combatants. When they return to the patrol base with
these prisoners they appear to have been beaten. Which one of the Soldier's
Rules does this violate?
a. Soldiers collect and care for the wounded
b. Soldiers destroy no more than mission requires
c. Soldiers do not harm enemies that surrender
d. Soldiers fight only combatants
c. Soldiers do not harm enemies that surrender
1) While conducting a training exercise in Eastern Europe your unit is tasked with
calming tensions of local villagers. To complete this task your unit develops a plan
to physically occupy key facilities and provide security at three of the village
population centers. This is an example of what type of stability mechanism?
a. Influence
b. Control
c. Disintegrate
d. Compel
b. Control
You are stationed at Joint Base Lewis McChord, a region prone to wildfires. A fire
at Dixie Canyon has spread faster than anticipated and is imminently threatening
the public. Under what stipulation could the commanding general of JBLM provide
resources?
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a. Economy Act
b. DOD/NORTHCOM Support
c. Governor Declares State of Emergency
d. Immediate Response
d. Immediate Response
1) You are working in the battalion S3. The battalion is preparing for a deployment
to Eastern Europe. The battalion commander has asked for an assessment of the
countries in the operational environment. You are tasked to assess the effects of
systems and organizations that collect and assess data and influence the
population in and between these countries and how this impacts your mission.
What category of the PMESII-PT framework does this occur in?
a. Social
b. Information
c. Economic
d. Military
b. Information
As an operations officer deployed to Poland, senior leaders task you to get an
assessment on Special Forces Soldiers conducting influencing operations within
your brigade's area of operations. What ARSOF task is this an example of?
a. Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
b. Military Information Support Operations
c. Direct Action
d. Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
b. Military Information Support Operations
1) Your commander directs you and other members of the staff to thoroughly
review and eliminate COAs he will not accept. Although he has visualized how the
operation will unfold, he trusts his staff's judgement and only provides broad,
general direction in order to give the staff the maximum latitude to develop
flexible and effective options. You and the rest of the staff are counting on the
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commander's comprehensive visualization and approach to the operation to
ensure mission accomplishment within the higher commander's intent, which she
will demonstrate through what you have come to know doctrinally as _______?
a. Defining key tasks
b. The Mission Statement
c. The operational approach
d. Planning guidance
d. Planning guidance
You are assigned as a staff officer assisting the Division with updating plans to be
executed within your organization's mid-range planning horizon. In which of the
following integrating cells do you work in?
a. Protection Cell
b. Movement and Maneuver Cell
c. Future Operations Cell
d. Current Operations Integration Cell
c. Future Operations Cell
You are a member of a Combat Aviation Brigade S3 section conducting operations
at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk. You are currently in step 5 of
MDMP (Course of Action Comparison) and have recently completed the course of
action comparison and are preparing to conduct a course of action decision brief
to the brigade commander. In order to ensure the brief is complete, what are the
minimum required components for the course of actions decision brief?
a. Probability for success, Commander's Intent and the unit's mission
b. Commander's intent, mission statement and the probability for success
c. Current TTPs, weather and the commander's intent
d. Commander's intent (two levels up), status of the force and the current IPB
d. Commander's intent (two levels up), status of the force and the current IPB
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You are a member of a battalion staff and have been preparing for an upcoming
mission to Germany. You begin to analyze the higher headquarters plan and
perform initial intelligence preparation of the battlefield. Which step of the MDMP
process are you currently in?
a. Mission Analysis
b. Higher's Plan
c. Receipt of Mission
d. COA development
a. Mission Analysis
You are a member of the BDE S2 and have been in collaboration with other staff
sections developing IPB products to help analyze the mission variables. Thus far,
you have identified critical gaps in the commander's knowledge of the operational
environment. Which step of MDMP are you in?
a. Step 1, Receive the Mission
b. Step 2, Mission Analysis
c. Step 3, Course of Action Development
d. Step 4, Course of Action Analysis
b. Step 2, Mission Analysis
CPT Shaw is the new BN S2 and is not used to leading such a large team. He often
works on products on his own and neglects the development of his staff. He soon
recognizes this as an area he needs to improve and asks his NCOIC to assist him
with identifying and developing methods to help him focus on the bigger picture.
What leadership characteristic has CPT Shaw displayed?
A. Confidence
B. Self-awareness
C. Empathy
D. Interpersonal tact
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LOG CAPTAINS CAREER COURSE: COMMON CORE FINAL EXAM
NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!
You are a company commander deployed to Afghanistan. One of your platoons
captures a team of enemy combatants. When they return to the patrol base with
these prisoners they appear to have been beaten. Which one of the Soldier's
Rules does this violate?
a. Soldiers collect and care for the wounded
b. Soldiers destroy no more than mission requires
c. Soldiers do not harm enemies that surrender
d. Soldiers fight only combatants
c. Soldiers do not harm enemies that surrender
1) While conducting a training exercise in Eastern Europe your unit is tasked with
calming tensions of local villagers. To complete this task your unit develops a plan
to physically occupy key facilities and provide security at three of the village
population centers. This is an example of what type of stability mechanism?
a. Influence
b. Control
c. Disintegrate
d. Compel
b. Control
You are stationed at Joint Base Lewis McChord, a region prone to wildfires. A fire
at Dixie Canyon has spread faster than anticipated and is imminently threatening
the public. Under what stipulation could the commanding general of JBLM provide
resources?
1|Page
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a. Economy Act
b. DOD/NORTHCOM Support
c. Governor Declares State of Emergency
d. Immediate Response
d. Immediate Response
1) You are working in the battalion S3. The battalion is preparing for a deployment
to Eastern Europe. The battalion commander has asked for an assessment of the
countries in the operational environment. You are tasked to assess the effects of
systems and organizations that collect and assess data and influence the
population in and between these countries and how this impacts your mission.
What category of the PMESII-PT framework does this occur in?
a. Social
b. Information
c. Economic
d. Military
b. Information
As an operations officer deployed to Poland, senior leaders task you to get an
assessment on Special Forces Soldiers conducting influencing operations within
your brigade's area of operations. What ARSOF task is this an example of?
a. Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
b. Military Information Support Operations
c. Direct Action
d. Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
b. Military Information Support Operations
1) Your commander directs you and other members of the staff to thoroughly
review and eliminate COAs he will not accept. Although he has visualized how the
operation will unfold, he trusts his staff's judgement and only provides broad,
general direction in order to give the staff the maximum latitude to develop
flexible and effective options. You and the rest of the staff are counting on the
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commander's comprehensive visualization and approach to the operation to
ensure mission accomplishment within the higher commander's intent, which she
will demonstrate through what you have come to know doctrinally as _______?
a. Defining key tasks
b. The Mission Statement
c. The operational approach
d. Planning guidance
d. Planning guidance
You are assigned as a staff officer assisting the Division with updating plans to be
executed within your organization's mid-range planning horizon. In which of the
following integrating cells do you work in?
a. Protection Cell
b. Movement and Maneuver Cell
c. Future Operations Cell
d. Current Operations Integration Cell
c. Future Operations Cell
You are a member of a Combat Aviation Brigade S3 section conducting operations
at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk. You are currently in step 5 of
MDMP (Course of Action Comparison) and have recently completed the course of
action comparison and are preparing to conduct a course of action decision brief
to the brigade commander. In order to ensure the brief is complete, what are the
minimum required components for the course of actions decision brief?
a. Probability for success, Commander's Intent and the unit's mission
b. Commander's intent, mission statement and the probability for success
c. Current TTPs, weather and the commander's intent
d. Commander's intent (two levels up), status of the force and the current IPB
d. Commander's intent (two levels up), status of the force and the current IPB
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, LOG Captains Career Course: Common Core Final Exam
You are a member of a battalion staff and have been preparing for an upcoming
mission to Germany. You begin to analyze the higher headquarters plan and
perform initial intelligence preparation of the battlefield. Which step of the MDMP
process are you currently in?
a. Mission Analysis
b. Higher's Plan
c. Receipt of Mission
d. COA development
a. Mission Analysis
You are a member of the BDE S2 and have been in collaboration with other staff
sections developing IPB products to help analyze the mission variables. Thus far,
you have identified critical gaps in the commander's knowledge of the operational
environment. Which step of MDMP are you in?
a. Step 1, Receive the Mission
b. Step 2, Mission Analysis
c. Step 3, Course of Action Development
d. Step 4, Course of Action Analysis
b. Step 2, Mission Analysis
CPT Shaw is the new BN S2 and is not used to leading such a large team. He often
works on products on his own and neglects the development of his staff. He soon
recognizes this as an area he needs to improve and asks his NCOIC to assist him
with identifying and developing methods to help him focus on the bigger picture.
What leadership characteristic has CPT Shaw displayed?
A. Confidence
B. Self-awareness
C. Empathy
D. Interpersonal tact
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