CDASA Study Guide 2026
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📋 CDASA Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CDASA Topics to Study (37)
✍️ Sample CDASA Questions & Answers
1. Which intelligence discipline focuses on imagery and geospatial data to support all-source analysis?
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) exploits imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities.
2. Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the challenge of 'collection gaps' in supporting defense policy?
Collection gaps exist when validated intelligence requirements cannot be satisfied because no collection assets are tasked or capable of collecting against the target, leaving analytic voids.
3. What is 'order of battle' (OB) intelligence concerned with?
Order of battle intelligence identifies and tracks adversary forces including their identification, disposition, strength, organization, equipment, and capabilities.
4. When developing a national intelligence estimate (NIE) on a state actor's nuclear program, which methodology best mitigates the risk of mirror-imaging?
Structured analytic techniques like ACH force analysts to systematically evaluate evidence against multiple hypotheses, reducing cognitive biases including mirror-imaging by making reasoning explicit.
5. When providing intelligence support to a commander during a time-sensitive targeting cycle, what is the analyst's primary responsibility?
The analyst's primary role in time-sensitive targeting is delivering accurate, timely intelligence so the commander can make informed decisions within the targeting cycle.
6. How is a 'double agent' operation defined in counterintelligence doctrine?
A double agent is an individual who, while ostensibly working for a foreign intelligence service, is actually controlled by friendly CI to feed information to or gather information from the adversary.