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CDFA MODULE 2 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER S
Question 1: What are the OSD Decision Making Forums?
CORRECT ANSWER : 3 star program review, Deputy
Management Action Group (DMAG), Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
Question 2: What law identifies the Chairman Joint
Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member of the Armed Services?
CORRECT ANSWER : Goldwater Nichols DoD
Reorganization Act 1986
Question 3: The military operational chain of command
runs from the President to whom?
CORRECT ANSWER : The Secretary of Defense to the
Combatant Commanders
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Question 4: The Commanders of the Combatant
Commands are responsible to whom for accomplishing the assigned military mission?
CORRECT ANSWER : President and Secretary of
Defense
Question 5: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is
the principal advisor to which officials and/or organizations?
CORRECT ANSWER : President, National Security
Council, Secretary of Defense
Question 6: Who serves as Chairman of the National
Security Council?
CORRECT ANSWER : President
Question 7: Name the three major phases of the PPBE
process that result in the DoD portion of the Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress?
CORRECT ANSWER : Planning, Programming, Budget
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Question 8: What is the name of the process used by the
DoD to determine the dollar amounts for programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the Presidents Budget?
CORRECT ANSWER : PPBE (planning, programming,
Budget, execution)
Question 9: What is the title of the senior OSD official
responsible for the planning phase of the PPBE process?
CORRECT ANSWER : Under Secretary of Defense
(Policy)
Question 10: What is the title of the senior OSD official
who is responsible for issuing programming guidance?
CORRECT ANSWER : Director, Cost Assessment and
Program evaluation D,CAPE
Question 11: What is the title of the senior OSD official
who is principal advisor and assistant to the SECDEF for budget and financial matters?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer
Question 12: The Under Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the Chairman of what Board?
CORRECT ANSWER : Defense Acquisition Board
(DAB)
Question 13: Assume todays date is 1 March 2014 and
your organization knows about a new project or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY
- What is the first PPBE related document in which
you could identify resources for that requirement?
CORRECT ANSWER : POM 2017 - 2021
Question 14: What is the title of the final document of the
planning phase?
CORRECT ANSWER : Defense Planning Guidance
(DPG)