CDFM Quiz 1 (solved)

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How many branches of Government did the Constitution establish? - ANSWER Three What was the predecessor to the Constitution? - ANSWER The Articles of Confederation Where are all Federal level la... ws enacted? - ANSWER Congress In which article of the Constitution is the power to raise taxes found? - ANSWER Article 1 What occurs when Congress is not in session and the President does not sign a properly presented enrolled bill within ten days? - ANSWER Pocket Veto How frequently does Congress review the DoD budget request? - ANSWER Annually Approximately what percent of total Federal spending is discretionary spending? - ANSWER 34% Which branch of Government implements laws? - ANSWER Executive Branch Which branch of Government is authorized to raise taxes and borrow money? - ANSWER Legislative Branch (Congress) What is the name of the committees that attempt to resolve difference between House and Senate versions of a bill? - ANSWER Conference Committee, sometimes referred to as "the Third Chamber" Which agency issues directions for use by other agencies in submitting their budget estimates? - ANSWER OMB (Office of Management and Budget) What term is used to describe a subdivision of an apportionment? - ANSWER Allotment What agency issues apportionments? - ANSWER OMB (Office of Management and Budget) To be successful, a BPR team should include individuals possessing what competencies and experiences? - ANSWER Member who does not know the process being reviewed Member who knows very well the process being reviewed Customers of the process being reviewed Member from organizations that would be impacted by a change At least technology guru One or two of the best and brightest individuals of the organization Member from outside the impacted organization A senior person of organization considering a change in the process (to provide support of the effort) probably not an active member of the team Which branch of Government conducts hearings on the effectiveness of Government programs? - ANSWER Legislative Branch (Congress) In the Federal budget process, which organizations actually prepare budget estimates? - ANSWER Federal Agencies What is the largest single source of Federal Government tax revenues? - ANSWER Individual Income Taxes What are requests for funds in addition to amounts already appropriated called? - ANSWER Supplemental What financial control document is issued by the Treasury Department following signature of the Appropriations Act? - ANSWER Appropriation Warrant What term describes a postponement in the use of appropriated funds - ANSWER Deferral What term describes a cancellation of appropriated funds - ANSWER Rescission An administrative reservation of funds is known as what? - ANSWER Commitment After the DoD Appropriations Bill is signed into law, what does DoD request from OMB? - ANSWER Apportionment What gives a Federal agency the legal authority to operate a program? - ANSWER Authorization Legislation Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, of the U.S. Constitution empowers which element of the Federal Government to collect taxes? - ANSWER The Legislative Branch Where can the rules for calculating FTE employment be found? - ANSWER OMB Circular A-11 What term is used to refer to the totality of units in a DoD component? - ANSWER Force Structure What term is used to refer to the authorized and programmed strength at the end of the fiscal year for the active forces, the Selected Reserve, and appropriated fund civilian employees in the FYDP? - ANSWER Peacetime Strength What process involves assembling, organizing, and using manpower and material resources in preparation for war or other emergency? - ANSWER Mobilization What is the maximum number of days that units of the Selected Reserve and members of the Individual Ready Reserve may be ordered to active duty (other than training) without the consent of Congress? - ANSWER 365 What is the maximum number of members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve who may be on duty at any one time? Of these, what is the maximum number who may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve? - ANSWER 200,000 30,00 What term is used to describe a civilian who could be deployed to a crisis area? - ANSWER Emergency Essential Employee What types of activities are excluded from competition under OMB Circular A-76? - ANSWER Inherently Governmental How frequently must Federal agencies compile lists of activities that a not inherently governmental? - ANSWER Annually What kind of activity is so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate performance by Federal employees? - ANSWER Inherently Governmental Activity What is one of the exceptions to the ban on gifts from outside sources? - ANSWER The value of the gift is $20 or less Merit principles say that equal pay should be provided for what type of work - ANSWER Work of equal value Merit principles place the burden for good employee performance on management or the employee? - ANSWER Both A disabled veteran with a service connected disability of 30 percent or more must be given what type of notice of a proposed passover? - ANSWER Written notice New Federal employees normally serve a probationary period of how long? - ANSWER One year An EEO complainant must contact an EEO counselor within how many days of the event causing the complaint? - ANSWER 45 day but can be extended under extenuating circumstances The EEO counselor has 30 days to work a case. Can this time limit be extended and if so for how long? - ANSWER Yes, an additional 60 days Effective training can be a critical component for achieving what? - ANSWER Organizational goals Differing priorities, misunderstanding of roles and responsibilities, technical opinions, and personality clashes often cause what? - ANSWER Conflict Leave well enough alone is an example of which type of conflict resolution approach? - ANSWER Avoiding Two heads are better than one is an example of which type of conflict resolution approach? - ANSWER Collaborating What is the name of the Departments internal control effort? - ANSWER Manager's Internal Control Program (MICT) The purposes of the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act of 1982 are to prevent waste or misuse of agency funds or property and to assure the accountability of what? - ANSWER Assets What agency issues Standards for internal Control in the Federal Government? - ANSWER GAO (Government Accountability Office) Segregation of duties is a part of which internal control standard? - ANSWER Control activities The Integrity Act report must include agency plans to correct what type of weakness? - ANSWER Material Who decides whether a weakness is material enough to warrant reporting as a material weakness to the next higher level? - ANSWER Management judgment What should be the last milestone of the corrective action plan for each material weakness? - ANSWER Correction Validation The DoD component head's Statement of Assurance must take one of how may forms? - ANSWER Three How many standards are there in the GAO Standards of Internal Control? - ANSWER Five For What program is the full scope of management responsibility defined in DoD instruction 5010.40? - ANSWER DoD's Managers' Internal Control Program When a DoD component head provides a Statement of Assurance that the component's controls are in place and achieving their intend objectives, is this a statement of absolute or reasonable assurance? - ANSWER Reasonable Assurance What is the term for the probable or potential adverse effects from inadequate internal control that may result in the loss of Government resources or cause an agency to fail to accomplish significant mission objectives through fraud, waste, or mismanagement? - ANSWER Risk What kind of a weakness significantly impairs the fulfillment of a DoD component's mission? - ANSWER Material What do internal controls reasonably ensure? - ANSWER Programs achieve intended results Resources are used efficiently Programs/resources are protected from waste, fraud, and mismanagement Laws and regulations are followed Financial reporting is reliable and accurate What is a radical redesign of key business processes that involves examination of the fundamental process itself? - ANSWER Business Process Reengineering (Business Process Innovation) What is the suggested maximum number of participants on a reengineering team? - ANSWER fewer than 10 What is the process of measuring and comparing one's performance against best in class organizations and then adapting the best practices of those organizations to improve one's own performance? - ANSWER Benchmarking What law or regulation has as its goal the improvement of Federal program effectiveness and public accountability by promoting focus on results, service quality and customer satisfaction? - ANSWER Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) In Federal agencies, how often must strategic plans required under the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 be updated? - ANSWER Every 4 years What is the term for anything produced by an organization that can be tabulated, calculated, or recorded and can be expressed in a quantitative o qualitative measure? - ANSWER Output or Output Measures What is the tem for an assessment of the manner and extent to which a program activity has achieved its intended objectives? - ANSWER Outcome or Outcome Measures What is the name of the process in which the intent is to shift functions and responsibilities, in whole or in part, from the Government to the private sector? - ANSWER Privatization What is the name of the process in which a Government entity remains fully responsible for the provision of affected services and maintains control over management decisions, while another entity operates the function or performs the service? - ANSWER Outsourcing There are certain situations in which a DoD organization may retain funds that it receives from sources other than its normal appropriations or from providing reimbursable activities rather than sending those funds to the U.S. Treasury as Miscellaneous Receipts. hat must exist in order for the organization to retain such funds? - ANSWER Federal level legal authority (otherwise these funds must be sent to U.S. Treasury) The Defense Acquisition System is the management process that guides DoD acquisition programs and is basically the process by which programmatic risk is managed. What are the three programmatic risks that must be successfully manage? - ANSWER Cost, Schedule, and Performance risks What are the appropriations that may be used to fund an acquisition program? - ANSWER RDT&E, Procurement, O&M, MILCON, and MILPERS What is the acquisition approach that delivers capability to the warfighter in a set of increments spread over time with a known desired end-state capability rather than in a single effort, because technology is not yet available to provide that n-state capability? - ANSWER Evolutionary acquisition What is the term used to describe dollars shown in the life-cycle cost estimate wherein the effects of inflation are not considered? - ANSWER Base year dollars or Constant dollars What is the term used to describe dollars used for programming and budgeting purposes wherein the effects of inflation are considered? - ANSWER Then-year dollars or current year dollars What cost structure does MIL-STD-881C represent? - ANSWER WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) What concept is base on the axiom that the best time to reduce cost is early in the process? - ANSWER Cost as an independent variable (CAIV) Which cost estimating method is based on direct comparison with historical information of one similar system? - ANSWER Analogy Method Which cost estimating method is known as a statistical method or top-down method? - ANSWER Parametric Approach Which cost estimating method requires extensive knowledge of the product or process? - ANSWER Engineering Approach What is the theory that as the quantity of output doubles, the man-hours required to produce the quantity decreases at a fixed rate? - ANSWER Learning Curve Theory What are the methods/steps in conducting the Delhi technique - ANSWER Query expert opinion Seek supporting rational or information from each expert Summarize results Gather second opinion Continue iteration until consensus or near-consensus is reached What is the name of the integrated management tool intended to relate contractor actual performance on a contract to the contractor's planned cost and schedule, that measures the work progress in objective terms, and that states the value of the work completed in dollars? - ANSWER Earned Value Management System (EVMS) What is the EVM-related term when there is a difference between budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) and actual cost of work performed (ACWP) on a cost reimbursable contract? - ANSWER Cost Variance What is a systematic approach to the problem of choosing the best method of allocating scarce resource to achieve a given objective? - ANSWER Economic Analysis Cost Savings, Cost Avoidance, an Productivity Improvements are examples of what type cost benefits - ANSWER Quantifiable Benefits What does correlation measure? - ANSWER Correlation measures the degree of relationship between two or more variables For a perfect correlation to exist, what would be the coefficient? - ANSWER 1.0 When evaluating a proposed investment or project with costs and benefits occurring not only in the current year but also future years, it is necessary to bring back to today's dollars all those costs and benefits. What is this process determining? - ANSWER Net Present Value of the proposed investment or project Federal agencies are required to submit to OMB and Congress several financial late reports on an annual basis. If the agency choose to submit a consolidated report to satisfy that requirement, it is called the Performance and Accountability Report (PAR). Alternatively, the agency may submit separate financial reports. What report or reports has DoD chosen to submit to satisfy the requirement? - ANSWER Agency Financial Report Annual Performance Report Summary of Performance and Financial Information What type of legislation provides an agency with budget authority? - ANSWER Appropriation Acts In regards to measures of central tendency, what is a mean? A mode? A median? - ANSWER Mean is the arithmetic average Mode is the most frequent score in a distribution Median is the middle of arrayed values What law identifies the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the senior ranking member of the Armed Forces? - ANSWER The Goldwater-Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986 The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom? - ANSWER The Secretary of Defense to the Combatant Commanders The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for accomplishing the assigned military mission? - ANSWER The President and the Secretary of Defense The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal military advisor to which officials and/or organizations? - ANSWER The President the National Security Council The Secretary of Defense Who serves as the Chairman of the National Security Council? - ANSWER The President Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the Do portion of the President's Budget that is submitted to Congress? - ANSWER Planning, Programming, and Budgeting What is the name of the process used by DoD to determine the dollar amounts for programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the President's budget? - ANSWER Planning, Programming, Budgeting ad execution What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the PPBE process? - ANSWER Undersecretary of Defense Policy What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for issuing programming guidance? - ANSWER Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (D, CAPE) What is the title of the senior OSD official who is the principal advisor and assistant to the SECDEF for budget and fiscal matters? - ANSWER Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the Chairman of what Board? - ANSWER Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - ANSWER Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) What is he title of the document prepared by the D, CAPE and USD (C) in the May to June time frame that provides guidance to Components for preparation of their POM and BES submissions? - ANSWER Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance Assume today's date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new project or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY2021. What is the first PPBE- relate document in which you could identify resources for that requirement? - ANSWER POM 2017-2021 What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? - ANSWER FYDP What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated into requested resources in an appropriations format? - ANSWER Budgeting Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy? - ANSWER Full Funding What is the name of the document prepare by the Joint Staff after its review of POMs submitted by the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and capabilities contained in those POMs? - ANSWER Chairman's Program Assessment CPA Chairman JCS Near the end of the budget review process, the SECEF and DEPSEC may conduct a review of Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet ben resolve. Resolution of these issues may displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline. What are the two names by which this review is know? - ANSWER OSD/OMB Budget Review and the Fall Review Following a review of a Component's budget submission ad a potential budget hearing in the fall timeframe, the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft document that is submitted to the DEPSECDEF or SECEF for a decision. Once signed by one of those senior officials, what is that document called? - ANSWER Resource Management Decision After all resource related decisions have been made by the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF to determine the defense portion of the President's Budget, the USD(C) posts final decisions into a database in the proper appropriation account format. What is the title of that database? - ANSWER Comptroller Information System (CIS) Within what type document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an appropriation account remains current ad available for new obligation? - ANSWER An appropriation bill (becomes a law when signed by the President) There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its appropriations. Name those two methods. - ANSWER Contracts and MIPRs What is the term use for shifting funds between appropriations? - ANSWER transfer What is the long-term financial goal of a working capital fund? - ANSWER to break even Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal agency for [Show More]

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