ASIS Intelligence Officer Psychometric Assessment case studies
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The ASIS Intelligence Officer Psychometric Assessment is a multiple-choice examination designed for security and intelligence professionals working in corporate, government-adjacent, or private-sector protective environments. It evaluates whether a candidate can reason like an intelligence officer: collecting and analyzing information, assessing threats and risk, running security operations and incidents, planning and reporting, applying legal and ethical constraints, communicating clearly, and solving problems under ambiguity. The ASIS Intelligence Officer Psychometric Assessment case studies are 5 cases and about 2,828 words.
1The Analyst Who Was Right Too Early
You are the duty intelligence officer for a corporate security team. At 14:00 a junior analyst flags an unusual pattern: three separate phishing emails in 48 hours, each targeting the accounts-payable team, each referencing a real internal project name, and each sent from a lookalike domain registered 11 days ago.
627 words, about 3 min2The Source With a Motive
A contracted cleaning supervisor at a logistics depot reports that a night-shift colleague is 'photographing the loading bay schedules' and 'meeting someone in the car park.' The supervisor is credible, has worked the site for four years, and is specific about times: 02:10 and 02:40 on two consecutive Tuesdays. However, you learn the supervisor was recently passed over for a permanent role that the alleged colleague received, and the two have a documented history of friction over shift allocation.
565 words, about 3 min3The Alert That Arrived During a Lockdown
You are the on-call security operations lead at a 900-person office campus. At 10:15 a fire alarm triggers a full evacuation.
575 words, about 3 min4The Estimate Nobody Wants to Hear
You are preparing a quarterly threat assessment for a manufacturing firm expanding into a new region. Your draft rates the risk of organised cargo theft at the new distribution hub as 'high,' based on three factors: two comparable hubs in the region suffered thefts in the past 18 months, the planned site has a single access road, and local law enforcement response times average 40 minutes.
546 words, about 3 min5The Translation That Changed the Meaning
Your team receives a verbal report through a trusted community contact who speaks limited English. The contact says a group is 'planning something at the site next week, maybe Thursday, they have keys.' You relay this to the operations manager, who acts on it by changing the site's lock schedule and briefing staff that a break-in is expected Thursday.
515 words, about 3 min