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  1. What is original classification?
  2. What Executive Order establishes the legal authority for original classification?
  3. What are the three levels of classification?
  4. What is derivative classification?
  5. Who is authorized to perform original classification?
  6. Who may perform derivative classification?
  7. How is the term information defined in the classification process?
  8. How is national security defined in the classification process?
  9. What must an OCA do if there is significant doubt about the need to classify information?
  10. A classifier uses information in a TOP SECRET document to generate a new document for use in the DoD and marks the new document TOP SECRET. What process did this individual complete?
  11. A classifier determines that a report containing certain chemical formulas associated with bio-chemical defense could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if revealed, and classifies the information TOP SECRET. What process did this individual complete?
  12. What is an Original Classification Authority (OCA)?
  13. What are the responsibilities of an Original Classification Authority?
  14. Which positions have original classification authority?
  15. Is original classification authority granted to individuals or to positions?
  16. How often must classification authority be exercised to retain the OCA designation if the OCA does not issue and maintain a security classification guide?
  17. When does the government grant authority to originally classify information?
  18. What qualifications must an individual have to exercise original classification authority?
  19. What must a request for original classification authority contain?
  20. How do DoD activities outside the military components request original classification authority?
  21. Under what circumstances will a request for original classification authority be granted?
  22. How often must OCAs receive training?
  23. What topics must OCA training address?
  24. An OCA granted TOP SECRET classification authority may classify information at which levels?
  25. An OCA granted SECRET classification authority may classify information at which levels?
  26. What is an OCA's jurisdiction?
  27. May an OCA grant original classification authority to another official?
  28. When may a subordinate assume an OCA's original classification authority?
  29. What must a subordinate acting as an OCA certify in writing before performing original classification?
  30. Who maintains the records of OCA delegation and training?
  31. What is unauthorized disclosure?
  32. What are the six steps in the original classification decision process?
  33. What happens if information fails to meet the criteria at any step of the original classification process?
  34. Can information that another OCA has already originally classified be originally classified again?
  35. In Step 1, what makes information official government information?
  36. Can information be classified if the U.S. Government has no ownership interest in it?
  37. What four determinations make up Step 2, Eligibility?
  38. What are the eight categories of information eligible for classification under E.O. 13526?
  39. For what reasons is classification of information prohibited?
  40. May an OCA classify basic scientific research information?
  41. Under what conditions may information that has been declassified and released to the public be reclassified?
  42. Who may decide to reclassify information under DoD jurisdiction that has been declassified and released to the public?
  43. In Step 3, what must the OCA assess?
  44. Are OCAs required to document the potential for damage to national security when classifying?
  45. What should an OCA do if the probability of protecting the information from unauthorized disclosure is small?
  46. What level of damage to national security defines CONFIDENTIAL information?
  47. What level of damage to national security defines SECRET information?
  48. What level of damage to national security defines TOP SECRET information?
  49. What must an OCA do if there is significant doubt about the appropriate level of classification?
  50. What is classification by compilation?
  51. What two considerations are involved in Step 5, Duration?
  52. What is downgrading and what is its principal purpose?
  53. What is declassification?
  54. What declassification duration guidelines must an OCA follow?
  55. What are the 25X exemptions?
  56. When is the 50X1-HUM exemption applied?
  57. What information is classified based on statute rather than Executive Order 13526?
  58. What are the two authorized methods for communicating original classification decisions?
  59. What manual provides instructions for developing Security Classification Guides?
  60. What must a properly marked source document used as classification guidance include?
  61. An OCA determines that information does not require protection, but that its release should be delayed for a couple of months in the interest of national security. What should the OCA do?

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