CDFM MODULE 4 EXAM 2023-2024 REAL
EXAM 210 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS(DETAILED ANSWERS)
What are the DoD Decision Support Systems? - ANSWER- Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE), Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), Defense Acquisition System (DAS)
Recent change in the PPBE Cycle changed the length of PPBE to how many years?
- ANSWER- 2003-2010 (Two Year); 2010-Current (One Year)
The Planning stage starts with what resource informed national defense policies and military strategy? - ANSWER- Defense Planning and Programming Guidance
(DPPG)
What document is used to lead the planning process? - ANSWER- The DPPG
The "how" of PPBE is known as what? - ANSWER- Programming
Putting "how" into dollars is known as what stage of PPBE? - ANSWER- Budgeting
The draft decision document prepared by the responsible OSD analyst for the programs and/or appropriations under their area of responsibility is known as what? - ANSWER- Resource Management Decision (RMD)
The QDR is provided to Congress in what year of the Presidential administration? - ANSWER- Second Year (2nd Year) 1 / 3
What decision support system defines interoperable, joint capabilities that will best meet future needs? - ANSWER- Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS)
What council reviews and validates all JCIDS documents and is done prior to Milestone A? - ANSWER- Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)
Who is the Defense Acquisition Executive (DAE)? - ANSWER- The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L))
Who is the Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) for ACAT ID programs? - ANSWER- The USD(AT&L)
Who is the MDA for ACAT IAM programs? - ANSWER- The Defense Acquisition Executive (DAE)
The approach the program will use to achieve full capability; either evolutionary or single step - ANSWER- The Acquisition Approach
This part of the Acquisition strategy should contain a summary description of the capability the acquisition is intended to satisfy or provide. - ANSWER- Capability Needs
This part of the Acquisition Strategy should summarize how the HSI requirements will be integrated within the systems engineering, logistics, technology development and resource management processes, including HSI risks and supporting mitigation plans. - ANSWER- Human Systems Integration (HSI)
This part of the Acquisition Strategy, requires the PM to include a program description that identifies contract deliverable military equipment, non-military equipment, and other deliverables. - ANSWER- Military Equipment Valuation and Accountability (MEVA)
This part of the Acquisition Strategy supports reduction of total cost of system ownership, each ACAT I program should document it's strategy in a Corrosion Prevention and Control Plan. - ANSWER- Corrosion Prevention and Control Strategy
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What are the Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) goals prior to Program Initiation? - ANSWER- Cost, Schedule, and Performance
Who is required to document program goals prior to program initiation? - ANSWER- The Program Manager
What public law states that the DoD may not obligate funds for a major defense acquisition program after the program enters System Development and Demonstration without a MDA-approved baseline unless the USD(AT&L) specifically approves the obligation? - ANSWER- 10 USC 2435
What Acquisition concept maximizes program manager and contractor flexibility and achieves cost objectives? - ANSWER- Trade-offs (on cost/performance)
What is the overarching process to transition from a stated need to an effective system and the integrating mechanism across all technical effort relating to the development, manufacturing, verification, deployment, operations, support, disposal of, and user training for systems and their life cycle processes? - ANSWER- Systems Engineering
Who prepares the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) for each milestone review, beginning with Milestone A? - ANSWER- The Program Manager
What engineering approach is used for configuration management to establish and control product attributes and the technical baseline across the total system lifecycle? - ANSWER- Configuration Management
What engineering approach is used to design affordable change, enable evolutionary acquisition, and rapidly field affordable systems that are interoperable in the joint battle space? - ANSWER- Modular Open Systems Approach
Program Managers for ACAT I and II programs shall assess the long-term technical data needs of their systems and reflect that assessment in what? - ANSWER- Data Management Strategy (DMS)
Program Managers shall plan for and implement what to identify and track applicable major end item, configuration-controlled items, and Government- furnished property? - ANSWER- Item Unique Identification (IUI)
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