Simulation Course (S7)

Identify the separate activities that are associated with the TRADOC Capability Manager-Mission Command (TCM-MC) and the TRADOC Capability Manager-Live (TCM-L).

TCM-MC:-Integrates and synchronizes-Represents warfighter in evolving-Represents TRADOC and user-Coordinates integration of currentTCM-L:-Staff proponent and TCM for planning-Department of the HQDA executive agent for Range-Department of the HQDA executive agent for Standards-Army Range Safety Program Manager

Commanders and staffs are attempting to maximize situational awareness by determining the common operational picture, or COP, environment for all echelons. Which system or combination of systems is utilized to achieve this goal?

The Army Mission Command Information System (MCIS)

Which of the following does the GCCS-A provide as one of its services?

operational information from the Global Command and Control System Joint (GCCS-J) to Army theater elements and below

When using the constructive simulation enablers within the live, virtual, constructive, and gaming, or LVCG, toolkit, personnel are simulating tank battalions for training use at higher military echelons, such as brigade and division levels. Which type of constructive simulation enabler is being utilized for this project?

Aggregate-level Simulation

A unit commander is attempting to assign a use case that best corresponds with the target training audience, training objectives, support requirements, LVC components, and MCIS to be stimulated. In this particular situation, the objective is to train personnel to conduct combat and stability and support operations focused against insurgents with or without higher command, or HICON. Which use case would be the most appropriate to implement with these needs in mind?

Battalion (BN) Command Post Exercises (CPX)

You are being instructed on the Synthetic Environment (SE) Common Open Reusable Elements (CORE), or SE-CORE, and how it builds the Army's Common Virtual Environment (CVE) to link virtual simulation devices into an integrated and interoperable training environment. Your instructor asks you which training systems are coordinated with the fielding of SE-CORE. Which is the best answer to his question?

CCTT & AVCATT

A Soldier is about to be deployed to a classified location. After the Soldiers are transported via aircraft, they will have to travel along a small, dangerous road that is close to enemy lines. This particular road is notorious for hosting improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Which system should be used to monitor the road as the Soldiers make their way to the specified location?

Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE)

The Tactical Mission Command Work Station (TMC-WS) provides collaborative, executive decision-making capabilities to the Army using which of the following?

Common Operational Picture (COP) management

You are in the midst of processing data into information for your commanders and staffs during the process of information management. What is the next step to be accomplished based on the four levels of meaning in the cognitive hierarchy model?

Conduct analysis to refine the information into knowledge

Currently enemy forces have been detected, and are approaching your brigades sector. You must quickly locate the enemy before formulating an offensive or defensive strategy for the impending contact with the opposing force. You are in need of a system that specifically acquires data from the Army, joint, national, and allied sensors and sources to provide intelligence on the battlefield across multiple security levels. Which of the following systems would prove most helpful in this situation?

Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A)

Which of the following is not mentioned as an HLA rule concerning federations?

During a federation execution, federations shall interact with FOM data owned by only one federate at any given time.

The presentation layer in the OSI Seven-Layer Model transforms data into an acceptable format to be received by the final layer. Which of the following statements is the presentation layer also responsible for?

Encrypting and decrypting the syntax layer when necessary

A Soldier is about to be deployed to a small village in the Middle East to meet with the local leaders and determine why a U.S. built marketplace is not being used. The Soldier is able to speak the language at an advanced level, but is limited in understanding the specific cultural context of the village. Which of the games discussed would be most beneficial for training the Soldier?

Enhanced Learning Environments with Creative Technologies BiLateral (ELECT BiLAT)

A Soldier is operating the LVC-Integrated Architecture, or LVC-IA, Increment 1. Of the core enablers planned for LCV-IA Increment 1, which should be implemented for live training?

Home Station Instrumentation Training (HITS)

You are about to engage in the weapons trainer called the Engagement Skills Trainer (EST) 2000, which employs simulated weapons in order to gain operational familiarity with the equipment. What is one of the EST 2000's beneficial features?

It is deployable within its own system shelter

Leader management of the common operational environment, or COE, for tactical Mission Command, or MC, is facilitated by a specific federation. In order to ensure that leader management is facilitated and that company, battalion, and brigade TAs meet their mission command training objectives in a joint environment, which federation should be utilized?

Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability Entity Level Resolution Federation (JLCCTC-ERF)

Which of the following simulation tools is used to simulate breaking news?

Video Creation Tool (VCT)

Your commanding officer notices that a minor miscommunication may have been made between two different mission command information systems. You are tasked with ensuring that successful communication between different MCIS is made from now on through the provision of a stand-alone network for both the Secure Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router (NIPR). Which of the following networks will prove most helpful to you when carrying out this order?

Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T)

The operations officer of a military unit is developing unit training objectives for a training exercise. Training objectives are to identify which of the following?

Where

A unit is listening to the unit commander lecture about the evolution of force generation processes and the ways the Army employs sustainable readiness to generate units to handle known operational plans, or OPLANS. During this discussion, the commander mentions the four-tiered T-level rating system. This assessment is based on the units ability to do which of the following?

Accomplish mission-essential tasks (METs)

You are tasked by your commanding officer to create and send DIS messages, ensuring that communication is being maintained between distributed simulations and simulators. After developing a software interface, you translate all position data to WGS-84. How were you able to translate the position data?

All of the above

While determining the mission-essential tasks, or METS, for the upcoming mission, the unit commander realizes that he requires the training evaluation outlines, or TEOs, to be most effective during planning. Which device should the commander implement in order to quickly acquire this information?

Army Training Network (ATN) METL Viewer

You are tasked by your commanding officer to construct a simulated battlefield scenario for training all fires and close air support tasks. Which of the following virtual simulators would be most applicable for this type of training?

Call for Fire Training (CFFT)

A deployed NCO is reviewing the different types of mission training complexes, or MTCs. He is specifically searching for a capability that supports both school instruction programs and operational unit requirements. Which of the following MTC plans should he use?

Hybrid MTC

An evaluation is conducted during a training event. The evaluation is not focused on any single unit's proficiency in the environment and task at hand, but on the squad as a whole. Which type of evaluation does this scenario describe?

Formal internal

In garrison, the commander is explaining the various future training methods that the Army plans to employ in 2025 and beyond to a Soldier in his unit. During his lecture, he mentions that the Army anticipates implementing a training system that possesses the capacity for scalable training, wrapping all operational, self-development, and institutional domains in a single environment. Which of the following systems is the unit commander describing?

Future Holistic Training Environment (FHTE)

You have been required to complete virtual training that employs Live, Virtual/Gaming, and Constructive, or LVC, enablers to stimulate mission command information systems, or MCIS, using correlated terrain databases. Which type of training environment would be the best fit for this task?

Integrated Training Environment (ITE)

During the Unit Training Management, or UTM, process, the commander is attempting to identify the most essential tasks that must be performed in order to achieve the desired training mission end-state. Which tasks are these?

Key Collective Tasks (KCTs)

You are the operations officer of a military unit that is establishing a training framework under a limited training budget. Your unit also has a limited number of personnel at its disposal. Which type of interoperability would prove most effective in helping you establish a training framework for your unit with limited resources in this situation?

MCIS and simulation interoperability

The unit commander recognizes the apparent need for training among his subordinates, and considers the application of Live, Virtual, Constructive, and Gaming, or LVC, methods for training. After careful deliberation, the commander decides that a training system involving live training environments that employ actual weapons systems in real time and space. Which of the following is an example of a training environment that fits this description?

Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES)

You observe several different types of information and events that are passed from simulation to simulation within high level architecture (HLA). You categorize these different types of information and events into three separate categories. What would you categorize named datums as that reveal different levels of capabilities each time an interaction is sent?

Parameters

A deployed unit is conducting inspection and maintenance of equipment and personnel to ensure all assets are well taken care of. After concluding their inspection, the unit reviews insights on how to accomplish the next events goals more effectively. Which phase of the Unit Training Management, or UTM, four-phase training development methodology is currently being conducted?

Phase Four Assess

A Soldier asks you what the difference is between system and non-system training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations (TADSS). In response, you begin describing each type of TADSS. Which of the following traits you list applies to both system and non-system TADSS?

Procured by the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO-STRI)

You are participating in an exercise that involves the use of Mission Command (MC) to refine the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) for Command Post (CP) operations. What type of exercise are you participating in?

Situational Training Exercise (STX)

The unit's commander wishes to conduct training exercises using the facilities and collective training capabilities of the Mission Training Center (MTC) to conduct Command Post (CP) operations, as well as integrate new personnel into CP operations. Which type of exercises should be completed by the unit to accomplish this?

Situational Training Exercises (STX)

During Mission Command Systems Integration Strategy, or MCSI, a unit is conducting training in their Command Post, or CP, with unit equipment. The unit's specific goals are to validate CP infrastructure and successfully execute CP operations. Which two MSCI training events help accomplish these goals?

Staff Integration Training and CP Integration Training

You notice that new training schedules and calendars are published on the Digital Training Management System, or DTMS, following approval from both the higher commander and the unit commander, thus protecting the unit's leadership. You have a safety risk assessment completed and must now submit it to the higher commander for approval. Which week of training are you currently undertaking?

T-Week-6

You are a Soldier participating in a non-system training aid, device, simulator, and simulation (TADSS) that provides realistic mission command training through the presentation of Joint and Army Intelligence capabilities. This non-system TADSS is specifically used for training the Intelligence Warfighting Function (WfF). Which of the following are you participating in?

The Intelligence Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT)

A unit commander is attempting to determine which type of training from the training readiness paradigm will be applicable to his current situation. Currently, those requiring training are at the MC staff level, and must be instructed on critical intra-CP element staff control processes. Which type of training must be implemented?

Walk training type from the training readiness paradigm.

Youve just completed training in an environment that employed LVC enablers to stimulate MCIS using correlated terrain databases. Which type of environment did the training take place?

Integrated Training Environment (ITE)

You are building an exercise that is notoriously difficult to employ without glitches, but it has been done before. Your commanding officer has directed you to research previous attempts at building this exercise to gain further insight. Which resource are you most likely to consult?

KMNET

The training audience, or TA, of a construction simulation event is collecting information alongside the commander and staff in order to determine a proper course of action, or COA, for the event. Who is responsible for monitoring the TA and guiding the overall exercise?

Observer controllers/trainers (OC/Ts)

Your instructor is explaining the composition of a virtual simulator and the five key systems they are comprised of. Afterwards, he quizzes you about the virtual simulators components, specifically inquiring which component serves as the brain of the simulator. What is the correct answer to his question?

The Image Generator (IG)

You are participating in a simulation that requires you to fly an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to gather information for research about a specific Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) platform. Which of the following simulations are you participating in?

The Multiple Unified Simulation Environment Air Force Synthetic Environment for Reconnaissance and Surveillance (MUSE AFSERS)

When visitors are immersed in the operational role of Soldiers in the Americas Army (AA) exhibit, they must employ a variety of strategies to participate in a virtual mission to capture a terrorist leader. Visitors are also bound by a set of rules. Which rules are AA visitors expected to comply with?

The Rules of Engagement

A Soldier is training to operate a tactical weapon system in a virtual environment. What is one advantageous aspect of this method of training?

There are no supply costs or wear and tear on equipment

In preparation for deployment, a unit is identifying critical tasks that must be performed. The unit commander states that these tasks consist of moving the unit to the assembly area and conducting river crossing operations. By identifying these mission-essential tasks, or METs, the unit will determine the training they will undergo in order to fulfill these tasks. In response to the unit commanders mission-essential task list, or METL, the unit is conducting mobility training, which includes physical readiness training. Which of the following training systems is being implemented in this situation?

Unit Training Management (UTM) Model

While practicing the art of battle command in complex counterinsurgency (COIN), you take on the role of an Army battalion commander, planning and executing operations in a fictional training scenario. Which training application is best suited for this exercise?

UrbanSim

A unit will soon be required to conduct surveillance in an area and must undergo a virtual training simulation that teaches and improves upon route clearance procedures. Which system would be the most effective virtual training aid to employ route clearance vehicles?

Virtual Clearance Training Suite (VCTS)

The Protection WfF is using a non-system TADSS to train in operations that involve ensuring pathways are cleared and safe for a unit to traverse. Which of the following simulators is the Protection WfF using?

Virtual Route Clearance Trainer (VRCT)