OIA — OSINT Intelligence Analyst · Final Exam
Agency-grade open-source intelligence tradecraft: requirements-driven collection, multi-source corroboration, geolocation and chronolocation, dark-web collection under managed attribution, threat-actor cluster analysis, and confidence-rated attribution that holds up to Devil's Advocacy.
100 scenario-based multiple-choice questions · pass mark 80/100 (80%). Every question has exactly one best-supported answer; distractors are intentionally plausible. Retakes allowed — your highest score counts. Diploma auto-issued to your account name on pass.
Doctrine you are expected to apply
- ICD 301 — IC OSINT doctrine: PIRs, EEIs, collection planning, source rating.
- Bellingcat standard: every published finding reproducible by a third party from cited open sources.
- Structured Analytic Techniques: ACH, Key Assumptions Check, I&W, Pre-mortem, Devil's Advocacy.
- GEOINT/IMGINT/CHRONOINT chain: candidate area → invariants → match → confidence + caveats.
- Managed-attribution OPSEC, persona separation, and chain-of-custody discipline.
- MITRE ATT&CK and the Diamond Model for threat-actor profiling.
Authority sources behind the exam
- ICD 301 — Director of National Intelligence OSINT Directive.
- NATO OSINT Handbook & Reader.
- Bellingcat — Online Investigation Toolkit and published methodology.
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework & Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis.
- U.S. State Department OSAC personal-security and travel-intelligence briefings.
- Public academic work — Heuer (Psychology of Intelligence Analysis), Heuer & Pherson (Structured Analytic Techniques).
Before you begin
- Allow 60–90 minutes of uninterrupted, focused time.
- Read every stem carefully — the difficulty is in the discrimination between defensible options, not in trick wording.
- When two options look correct, pick the one most directly supported by the evidence/method described in the stem.
- OIA is a professional credential — answer as a working analyst would write into a report under their own name.
