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001. Qualifications and progression within Cyber specialties
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- What are the Cyberspace Support specialist’s general responsibilities?
- Performing system analysis and design, programming, systems operation and maintenance, resource management and security management.
- What CompTIA certification fulfills the DODD 8570 requirement for IAT Level I only?
- Network+.
____ (1) Cyber Surety.
c. 3D0X3.
____ (2) Client Systems.
e. 3D1X1.
____ (3) Spectrum Operations
h. 3D1X4.
____ (4) Cyber Transport Ssytems.
f. 3D1X2.
____ (5) RF Transmission Systems.
g. 3D1X3.
____ (6) Cyber Systems Operations.
b. 3D0X2.
____ (7) Cable and Antenna Systems.
i. 3D1X7.
____ (8) Computer Systems Programming.
d. 3D0X4.
____ (9) Knowledge Operations Management.
a. 3D0X1.
- Which career Cyberspace Support career field(s) require IAT Level II certifications?
- 3D0X2, 3D0X3, and 3D1X2 .
- What career fields require personnel to be free from fear of heights and claustrophobia?
- Cable and Antenna Systems (3D1X7).
- What CFETP sections outline the required skills and progression for each assigned career field?
- Part I Sections B and C.
- For personnel not in retraining status what is the minimum number of months OJT are required for upgrade to the 5- and 7-skill levels?
- 12 Months.
- What function(s) of the unit’s operational mission does the Communications Focal Point directly support?
- Voice and data network systems, radio systems, video, and all other communications/cyber equipment/systems, while maintaining visibility of performance.
- What is the first organization that AFNET users contact when they experience issues with their government provided end-user equipment?
- ESD.
- Manpower and organization
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- How is manpower sized?
- To reflect the minimum essential level to accomplish the required workload.
- Which document provides formulas to calculate target manning?
- AFMAN 38–208.
- Who provides the UMD to the organization?
- Local Mission Support Squadron’s Manpower and Organization office.
- Define unfunded positions.
- Approved manpower authorizations that have not been funded for fill by the Air Force.
- Define funded positions.
- Authorized manpower awarded to the unit and funded by the Air Force.
- What is the purpose of the UPMR?
- The UPMR is used to match personnel assigned within the unit to the position numbers listed on the UMD.
- What is the purpose of the PEC?
- It defines which pot of money will pay for a specific position.
- Who originates an ACR?
- The requesting unit.
- An OCR includes which actions?
- Unit activation, inactivation, redesignation, or variation to a policy, guidance, procedure or standard organization structure as depicted AFI 38–101.
- How does an OCR differ from an ACR?
- It does not add, modify or change existing authorizations; it adds or removes work centers or realigns flights or work centers within the unit.
- Career field management
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- Which strategic level position is typically manned by CMSgts assigned to HAF and is responsible for organizing and managing one or more enlisted career fields?
- AFCFM.
- Who possesses final authority to waive CFETP requirements?
- AFCFM.
- Who serves as the MAJCOM liaison for her/his respective AFCFM?
- MAJCOM Functional Manager.
- Under what circumstances is the STRT held in conjunction with the U&TW?
- When it is obvious that new requirements will not drive additional sources.
- What is the primary purpose of the STRT?
- For the AFCFM and functional leaders to determine and present training requirements to the AETC.
- Who attends the Utilization and Training Workshop (U&TW)?
- AFCFM (Co-chair), AETC/TPM (Co-chair), AETC/TM, AETC/Program Element Manager (PEM), and MFMs. Optional U&TW attendees include the AETC CDC writer and representatives from AFCDA, AETC Occupational Analysis Division, AFPC education, training, and classification, and the AETC instructional technology unit (ITU).
- What is the aim of the Occupational Survey?
- To facilitate decision-making on Air Force personnel and training programs by providing objective information about Air Force occupations.
- Who is the job survey distributed to?
- All eligible career field members.
- Managing documenting, and scheduling
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- What AIS is used to track outages for computer and cyber network equipment?
- Remedy.
- What AIS is used to document actions on any item with an assigned SRD?
- IMDS.
- What is the ESR system currently used for reporting IMDS related equipment status?
- REMIS.
- Define partial mission capable.
- System or equipment functioning in such a way that it can perform at least one, but not all of its assigned missions or functions; system is impaired but usable.
- Define inactive equipment.
- Equipment not commissioned or installed to perform an operational mission or requirement.
- What is used to develop user-level master inspection schedules?
- Scheduled inspection intervals.
- What is an Authorized Service Interruption?
- Coordinated and planned outage for preventative maintenance inspections, configuration changes and optimizations that require an AFNet component/service to be unavailable for a specified length of time.
- Training
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- What is the system officially used to document training?
- TBA.
- What four items must the MTP include?
- (1) Master Task List.(2) Current CFETP and applicable AFJQS.(3) Local JQS (if applicable).(4) Milestones for tasks and CDC completion.
- What types of tasks are identified in the Master Task List?
- Contingency/Wartime tasks, additional duties identified by the supervisor as certifiable tasks, and mandatory core tasks identified by the AFCFM.
- Who determines when the trainee is ready for task certification?
- The trainer.
- How is the initial evaluation documented?
- Document the completion of the evaluation with a journal entry on the TBA Website via the Air Force Portal.
- What must be done prior to conducting the initial evaluation on newly assigned personnel?
- The supervisor must assign individual training requirements to the trainee’s Individual Training Plan.
- Which two factors should supervisors include when providing trainee feedback?
- (1) Include what the trainee is doing correctly (positive feedback).(2) Provide areas for improvement (constructive feedback)
- Who are UTC Personnel Evaluations conducted on?
- All 3DXXX personnel assigned to UTC-based organizations whose primary mission is to deploy.
- Safety and risk management
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- Define ORM.
- ORM is a decision-making process to systematically evaluate possible courses of action, identify risks and benefits, and determine the best course of action for any given situation.
- Name the four principles that govern all actions associated with the ORM.
- (1) Accept no unnecessary risk.(2) Make risk decisions at the appropriate level.(3) Accept risk when benefits outweigh the costs.(4) Integrate ORM into operations and planning at all levels.
- Which document would you reference to learn about the ORM program?
- AFI 90–901, Operational Risk Management (ORM) Program.
- What is specifically tailored to address safety concerns of the work environment?
- A JST guide.
- Who provides job safety training to all newly assigned individuals?
- Supervisors.
- What must be exercised to ensure personnel follow all precautions and safety measures, including the proper use of PPE?
- Control over job tasks.
- What is the first step in Job Safety Analysis step?
- Document the activity: Assemble those involved in the activity and then, using the JSA worksheet, write down the tasks that make up the activity, step by step.
- What must be in place to ensure workers have the skills to complete the job and that there is a required level of supervision to ensure the tasks are completed as documented?
- Management processes.
- What will supervisors perform to check the day-to-day safety and health of an organization, work center, facility, and so forth?
- Spot inspections.
- Publications and directives
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- What enables easy filing and indexing of TOs and provides a means for users to identify and establish distribution requirements?
- TO sequencing.
- What is the official Air Force system for managing TO libraries?
- ETIMS.
____ (1) Support equipment designed and manufactured for commercial use.
f. COTS Manual
____ (2) Excerpts from one or more basic TOs that organize and simplify instructions.
g. Abbreviated TO
____ (3) Used for modifying military systems and end items or performing one-time inspections.
a. TCTO
____ (4) Category 00 and are general in content and are not issued against specific military systems or end items.
b. MPTO
____ (5) Developed for other services or government departments and authorized for use by Air Force personnel.
i. Joint use publication
____ (6) Used in lieu of specific equipment TOs, and are categorized into three types: Category, System, and Equipment-series.
e. General TO
____ (7) Contain instructions for use in conjunction with data contained in their parent TOs, and are not stand-alone publications.
h. Supplemental TO
____ (8) Covers installation, operation, troubleshooting, repairing, removing, calibration, servicing or handling of Air Force military systems and end items.
c. SIPTO
____ (9) Include facility, system, subsystem, installation engineering and installation manuals, general engineering and planning manuals, and standard installation practices.
d. O&M TO
- What POC oversees TO requirements and distribution within an organization?
- The TODO.
- What are the duties of the TODO?
- Establish and maintain a TO Account in ETIMS, establish and maintain organization TODA for organization subaccounts, and maintain records of TOs required and on hand in organization physical distribution media TO libraries.
- When do work centers ensure LWCs, LJGs, LPSs, and LCLs are reviewed for currency?
- When source references change, or at least annually
- How are LWC Identification numbers developed?
- LWC, LCL, or LJG followed by originating organization, and the TO number or designator.
- What business sectors does the ANSI influence?
- Nearly every sector of business.
- Where does the Telecommunications Industry Association obtain its accreditation?
- From the ANSI.
- What standards does the ECIA develop?
- Interconnect, passive and electro-mechanical (IP&E) electronic components under the ANSI-designation of EIA standards.
- What are the negative effects of inadequate research when developing publications?
- Inadequate research could result in issuing more than one publication on the same subject, conflicting instructions, or publishing a nonessential or incomplete publication.
- List the required activities for creating a new publication.
- (1) Draft and collaborate with publications change manager.(2) Formal coordination.(3) Obtain certifying official’s endorsement.(4) Obtain approving official’s endorsement.(5) Submit to publications manager for final processing.
- What immediate result is expected after an AF TCNO is issued?
- Patching of AFIN or DoDIN systems to minimize or eliminate exploitation vulnerabilities.
- Authority and user responsibilities
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- The USC is a compilation of which types of federal laws of the United States?
- General and permanent.
- What USC Title includes cyber-related topics, such as cyber security research and online shopper protection?
- USC Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
- What is meant by the term posse comitatus and what does it enforce?
- “Force of the country”; civil law when not expressly authorized by the Constitution or an act of Congress.
- Chapter 5 of what USC Title spells out the situations in which one can draw special pay or reenlistment bonuses?
- USC Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.
- What is the premise of the War Power Resolution?
- To clarify and expand on constitutional authority to enter the U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities.
- How does Air Force EIM enable mission capabilities?
- Through seamless integrated access to the right information anytime or anywhere.
- What is the primary purpose of a chat room?
- To share information via text with a group of individuals.
- What does the DCO portal do?
- Allows for registration, authentication and scheduling connection meetings and instant messaging sessions.
- What are the two types of Air Force Web pages/sites?
- Public and private.
- What is the difference between the two types of Air Force Web pages/sites?
- Public Webpages/sites are intended for viewing by the general public; private webpages/sites are intended for a limited audience.
- Who has the overall responsibility for publishing local policy and guidance defining authorized personal use of the internet?
- Wing commander.
- Define official use.
- Performance of work associated with your day-to-day responsibilities or performance of only official duties on official time.
- Name four situations that can be considered unethical but not necessarily illegal.
- (1) Personal conflict of interest.(2) Covered relationships.(3) Misuse of position.(4) Non-public information.
- Resource management
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- What is the DoD internal methodology used to allocate resources to capabilities?
- The PPBE process.
- What is the purpose of the PPBE process?
- To allocate resources within the Department of Defense.
- Name three factors supervisors should consider for future operating costs when planning the work center budget.
(1) Will new equipment need to be purchased? If so, what is the total cost?(2) Which initial spares are required, and will they be locally funded?(3) Which items need to be added to bench stock and how much will they cost?(4) Are any special tools required? If so, what is the cost?(5) Is formal training required? If so, what are the temporary duty (TDY) costs?(6) Will extra trips to the site be necessary?
- What information can be used as a baseline for projecting next year’s operating costs?
- Cost information from supply reports.
- What does the MILCON program cover?
- All land acquisition; Acquiring and constructing facilities; Adding to, expanding, extending, converting, altering, or replacing existing facilities; Relocating facilities; Planning and Design; Construction overhead, supervision, and inspection; Equipment installed in and made a part of real property structures and improvements and real property installed equipment-RPIE.
- While congressional appropriations committees approve individual projects, what about the amounts appropriated?
- They may be less than their estimated cost.
- What is the main goal of the Government Purchase Card Program?
- To provide Air Force users a simplified, streamlined method of purchasing and paying for simple, low-dollar value, items of supply and service.
- What regulation provides in-depth information for administering the Government Purchase Card Program?
- AFI 64–117.
____ (1) The Office of the Deputy Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Contracting (SAF/AQC) Liaises between the Air Force organizations and the PCPMO and Communicates DoD and the Air Force policy to the field.
b. Level 2
____ (2) Commonly referred to as the Agency/Organization Program Coordinator (A/OPC), and is responsible for program implementation, administration, training, and monitoring at the installation level.
d. Level 4
____ (3) Approving Official (AO) approves/disapproves all purchases subsequent to reconciliation by the cardholder, accounts for funds, and conducts surveillance on cardholders within the AO’s account .
e. Level 5
____ (4) DoD Purchase Card Program Management Office (PCPMO) Establishes annual training documentation requirements and oversees the purchase card program.
a. Level 1
____ (5) The individual cardholder (CH) makes authorized transactions, and logs and reconciles transactions.
f. Level 6
____ (6) GPC program implemented and administered at the MAJCOM/Agency level.
c. Level 3
- What does the Air Force use as the electronic tool for managing its GPC program?
- PCOLS.
- When do wing or equivalent commanders submit shortfalls or reclamas?
- When a wing or tasked unit does not possess sufficient equipment or qualified personnel to support a UTC or the tasking will shut down critical elements of the home station mission.
- Define shortfall.
- The lack of forces, equipment, personnel, material or capability reflected as the difference between the resources identified as a plan requirement and those apportioned to a combatant commander for planning that would adversely affect the command’s ability to accomplish its mission
- List the conditions that will make a shortfall valid.
- The capability is not available at the unit and the wing or tasked unit has the capability and sufficient personnel to meet requirements, but deployment of personnel and/or equipment would cause a severe mission impact on the wing or unit.
- Recognition
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- Which agency honors the 12 Outstanding Airmen at its annual convention in Washington D.C.?
- Air Force Association.
- If selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen, what must the nominees agree to in a signed statement of intent?
- Nominees must sign a statement of intent agreeing to obtain retainability to serve for 12 months on the AFA Enlisted Advisory Council beginning on their 12 OAY induction date (September). Additionally, the statement of intent requires the member to agree not to apply for a commissioning program during the year of selection.
- What achievement(s) does the Lance P. Sijan USAF Leadership Award recognizes officers and enlisted leaders for?
- This award recognizes officers and enlisted leaders who exude the highest level of leadership in the performance of their duties and off duty conduct.
- Which document provides guidance for awards specific to the Cyber community?
- AFI 36–2845, Secretary of the Air Force, Chef of Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer Special Trophies and Awards.
- How long must individuals be in their rank tier and duty AFSC to be nominated for the Information Dominance Award?
- Nominated individuals must have been in the rank tier and performed in the duty AFSC for at and for least 183 days during the award period of service