Counterintelligence Awareness and Reporting Quiz

For employees and teams who need to examine judgment around suspicious contacts and information handling, the counterintelligence awareness and reporting quiz turns common workplace situations into a focused learning exercise. It shows how observation, preservation, verification, and reporting choices can be applied before intent is known. Results from this counterintelligence awareness quiz highlight practical areas for review.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than asking respondents to investigate colleagues or prove intent, the assessment checks whether they can notice indicators and choose a proportionate response. It addresses counterintelligence reporting procedures: preserving material, recording facts, separating assumptions from observations, verifying unusual requests, and using the designated channel.

Scenarios cover elicitation, cultivation, access anomalies, exposed information, device concerns, credential requests, and immediate safety situations. They suit readers who want to understand responsibilities without treating an unusual interaction as proof of hostile intent.

The result is Counterintelligence Awareness and Reporting Knowledge (0-16), shown in three bands:

• Foundations to build (0-6) means core practices need review, including evidence preservation and reporting routes.
• Developing awareness (7-12) means you recognize many principles but should practise ambiguous situations and local procedures.
• Strong awareness (13-16) means you grasp general recognition and reporting practices, while current requirements still govern action.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item in this counterintelligence awareness assessment presents a workplace scenario with four response options and asks the reader to choose the best action or description. This applied format tests whether respondents can select an appropriate response to those situations.

Scoring uses the selected responses to produce the displayed knowledge result; the questionnaire does not state an individual point-per-answer rule. Its interpretation therefore remains specific to this questionnaire. It is an educational result, not a certification or threat determination.

Content is conceptually consistent with CI Awareness and Reporting Course (CI116.16), DoD Directive 5240.06 (2011), including Change 3 effective in 2020, and Caputo, Danley, and Ratcliff (2024), whose study examined whether skills-based instruction improved employees’ ability to spot and report malicious elicitation attempts. The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with these sources but is not an adaptation of any one of them.

The displayed bands are educational categories, and the score is not a certification or threat determination. Generalized scenarios make responses sensitive to prior training, interpretation, and current context. For a real incident, follow current organizational instructions and designated channels; immediate danger requires emergency or security action first.