ALS Exam practice 2025

What is the main goal of empowering agile and adaptive leaders within the commander's intent?

• Promote centralized control

• Generate combat airpower and increase survivability

• Delay operational execution

• Minimize training requirements

A proactive and reactive operation scheme of maneuver is designed to:

• Slow down decision-making

• Avoid operational engagement

• Increase survivability within the threat timeline

• Focus only on air superiority

Which concept complicates or negates adversary responses?

• Routine deployment cycles

• Agile Combat Employment (ACE)

• Standard operating bases

• Fiscal constraints

One factor increasing the risk to air bases is:

• Shorter runways

• Reduced funding for logistics

• Adversary ISR and long-range fires

• High personnel turnover

What limits the establishment of new permanent air bases?

• High desert temperatures

• Inexperienced engineers

• Fiscal and political constraints

• Training deficiencies

What type of threat reduces freedom of maneuver for air forces?

• Environmental threats

• Bureaucratic issues

• Anti-access and area denial threats

• Humanitarian obligations

What does MRA stand for?

• Mission Role Assignment

• Multi-role Airmen

• Mission Ready Airmen

• Maneuver Response Aircraft

Mission Ready Airmen are expected to:

• Focus on technical tasks only

• Avoid operational environments

• Solve complex problems in challenging conditions

• Serve in administrative roles only

What is Step 2 of the planning process?

• COA Comparison

• Plan Development

• Mission Analysis

• Risk Mitigation

Which step includes evaluating each course of action and its consequences?

• COA Development

• COA Comparison

• COA Analysis and Wargaming

• Mission Analysis