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SBOLC – MDMP EXAM 2026//SBOLC – MDMP EXAM 2026
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What do Staff estimates typically have?
Facts
Assumptions
Constraints and Limitations
Asset availability
Personnel
Tasks
RFIs
What is included in WARNO 1 at minimum?
-Type of operation
-General location of the operation
-Initial timeline
-Movement of information collection to initiate
What is the most important step of MDMP?
Mission Analysis (Step 2)
Since no amount of subsequent planning can solve an insufficiently understood problem, mission analysis is the most important step in the MDMP
What are the outputs of step 2 of MDMP?
Approved problem statement.
Approved mission statement.
Initial commander's intent.
Initial CCIRs and EEFIs.
Initial commander's planning guidance.
Updated IPB products and running estimates.
Assumptions.
COA evaluation criteria.
WARNORD # 2.
What are the seven steps of MDMP?
What serves as the staff element's initial assessment of the current readiness of equipment and personnel?
The Base Running Estimate
T/F: The updating of the running estimate stops after the COA Analysis step of MDMP.
FALSE.
While listed at the beginning of MDMP, this task of developing and updating running estimates continues throughout the MDMP and operations process.
What are the 6 process steps in step 1 of MDMP?
What are 5 Key Inputs of Mission Analysis?
What are the results of the IPB?
Initial PIR
Completed MCOO
List of HVTs
Event template and matrices
Clearly defines to the commander what the relevant characteristics of their areas of interest are. Success results in saving time and effort by focusing only on those characteristics that influence friendly COAs and command decisions.
How can terrain affect Friendly and Enemy Operations?
Certain terrain can afford a marked advantage to either combatant.
All hills/bridges are not key terrain. Need ask what is the advantage for the enemy to own? Bridge that crosses an un-fordable river may by key terrain.
How does the identified terrain "fit-in" with the other aspects of terrain evaluation? (Example: Only one valid AA to the objective, then choke pts on the avenue become key terrain.)
What is the purpose of describing the environmental effects on operations?
It allows the commander to quickly choose and exploit terrain, weather, and civil considerations to best support the mission.
What is a threat overlay?
Depiction of the current physical location of all potential threats
in the AO and area of interest. Graphic includes the identity, size, location,
strength, and AO for each potential threat.
What are 5 steps to developing a MCOO?
What are the 11 broad areas the intelligence staff considers when analyzing threat characteristics/ adversary order of battle?
Composition
What is the purpose of evaluating the threat?
Enhances the commander's understanding of the regular, irregular, catastrophic, or disruptive threat/adversary force within the commander's area of interest:
Success results in threat/adversary COAs developed in the next step of IPB to reflect what the threat/adversary is capable of and trained to do in similar situations.
What is a High-Payoff Target List (HPTL)?
Targets whose loss to the threat Commander will contribute to
the success of the friendly COA.
What is an objective?
A clearly defined, decisive, and attainable goal toward which every operation is directed.
What is the End State?
A set of required conditions that define the achievement of the commander's objectives.
What is TAI?
Target Area of Interest.
Area or point on the ground, or an engagement area where interdiction of enemy forces by maneuver, fires, or jamming will eliminate or reduce a particular enemy capability. Successful interdiction will cause the enemy to abandon a particular course of action, or require the use of unusual support to continue operations.
T/F: Assumptions should be replaced with facts as soon as possible.
TRUE
Replace assumptions with facts as soon as possible. The staff identifies information needed to convert assumptions into facts and submits them to the appropriate agency as information requirements.
T/F: Restraint is a requirement, "must do," placed on the command by a higher command that prohibits an action, thus restricting a freedom of action.
FALSE
Restraint is a requirement, "cannot do," placed on the command by a higher command that prohibits an action, thus restricting a freedom of action.
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What is the purpose of developing a problem statement?
How the problem is formulated leads to particular solutions. It is important that commanders dedicate the time in identifying the right problem to solve and describe it clearly in a problem statement.
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T/F: The S-2 prepares a proposed mission statement for the unit based on the mission analysis. The unit's mission statement is presented to the commander for approval normally during the mission analysis brief.
The XO or S-3 prepares a proposed mission statement for the unit based on the mission analysis. The unit's mission statement is presented to the commander for approval normally during the mission analysis brief.
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What does MCOO stand for?
Modified Combined Obstacles Overlay
What is the Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield?
The systematic process of analyzing the mission variables of enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations in an area of interest to determine their effect on operations.
What are the key outputs of Step 2: Mission Analysis of the MDMP?
Complete: Each COA must show how:
The decisive operation accomplishes the mission
Shaping operations create and preserve conditions for success
Sustaining operations enable shaping and decisive operations
How to account for decisive action tasks
Tasks to be performed and conditions to be achieved.
T/F: A good COA can defeat all feasible enemy COAs. In an unconstrained environment, planners aim to develop several possible COAs.
TRUE
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What are key inputs that assist with COA Development?
What are the three operational frame works?
What are the methods of war-gaming?
Belt, Avenue-in-depth, and box.
What are two commonly used techniques to record/display results of the COA analysis?
across time, space, and purpose.
Who has overall responsibility for the war-gaming process?
The commander
What are the key outputs of COA Comparison?
Evaluated COAs
Recommended COAs
Updated running estimates
Updated Assumptions
What are the 3 actions of COA Comparison?
Conduct Advantages and Disadvantages Analysis.
Compare COAs
Conduct a COA Decision Briefing
What are the key inputs for COA Approval?
Updated running estimates
Evaluated COAs
Recommended COA
Updated assumptions
What are the key outputs for COA Approval?
Commander approved COA and any modifications
Refined commanders intent, CCIRs, and EEFIs
Updated Assumptions
What are the commanders options when selecting the COA?
What must the selected course of action be?
