CDFM MODULE 1 EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
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1. What was the first attempt to come up with a government? - ANSWER ✓
Articles of Confederation 1.1.5
2. What did an amendment to the Articles of Confederation require? -
ANSWER ✓ Unanimous approval of all the states 1.1.5
3. What did the Constitution establish - ANSWER ✓ 3 branches of government
(judicial, executive, legislative) 1.1.6
4. What is the essential principle of the Constitution - ANSWER ✓ Everything
you do must be legal (purpose, time, amount) 1.1.6
5. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called - ANSWER ✓
Bill of Rights 1.1.6
6. What does Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution state - ANSWER ✓
Congress shall have the authority to make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution 1.1.7
7. Who heads the executive branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓ Led
by the president and vice president, enforces/executes laws
8. Who makes up the legislative branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓
Congress and it makes/passes our laws
,9. What are the two parts of Congress - ANSWER ✓ Senate and House of
Representatives
10.Who leads the judicial branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓ Led by
the Supreme Court and interprets our laws
11.The organization of the Federal Government can be found where in the
Constitution - ANSWER ✓ In the first 3 articles 1.1.7
12.What does the preamble to the Constitution of the US begin with and how
do we exercise its sentiment - ANSWER ✓ "We the People of the United
States, in order to form a more perfect Union...."; we exercise this through
the election process. 1.1.7
13.Which Article of the Constitution discusses the legislative branch? -
ANSWER ✓ Article 1 1.1.7
14.Which Articles support which branches of Government? - ANSWER ✓
Article 1; Legislative, Article 2; Executive, Article 3, Judicial
15.What are the law-making powers of the Legislative Brach per Article 1 -
ANSWER ✓ Raise taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, conscript
forces, declare war, raise and support armies 1.1.8
16.Conference Committee - ANSWER ✓ Committees that attempt to resolve
differences between the House and Senate versions of bills, sometimes
called the 'Third Chamber'
17.Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - ANSWER ✓ An Agency that
issues directions for use by other agencies in submitting their budget
estimates
18.Appropriations Acts - ANSWER ✓ Provides budgetary authroity
19.Allotment - ANSWER ✓ Subdivision of an Apportionment
20.OMB - ANSWER ✓ Issues approtionments
,21.Legislative Branch - ANSWER ✓ Branch of the government that conducts
hearings on the effectiveness of government programs, also known as
Congress.
22.Federal Agencies - ANSWER ✓ The organizations that actually prepare
budget estimates in the Federal budget process
23.Individual Income Taxes - ANSWER ✓ The largest single source of Federal
government tax revenues
24.Supplemental - ANSWER ✓ Requests for funds in addition to amounts
already appropriated
25.Appropriation Warrant - ANSWER ✓ Document issued by the Treasury
Department following the signature of the Appropriations Act
26.Deferral - ANSWER ✓ Postponement in the use of appropriated funds
27.Recession - ANSWER ✓ Cancellation of appropriated funds
28.Apportionment - ANSWER ✓ DoD requests this after the appropriation is
signed into law
29.Commitment - ANSWER ✓ An administrative reservation of funds
30.Authorization Legislation - ANSWER ✓ Gives a Federal agency the legal
authority to operate a program
31.Performance Audit - ANSWER ✓ When a Service Secretary asks his
internal audit organization to review a program to determine if it is using its
resources efficiently
32.OMB A-11 - ANSWER ✓ Where rules for calculating FTE employment can
be found
33.Force Structure - ANSWER ✓ Total units in a DoD component
, 34.Peacetime Strength - ANSWER ✓ 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 Future Years Defense Plan
(FYDP)
35.Mobilization - ANSWER ✓ Process that involves assembling, organizing,
and using manpower and material resources in preparation for war or other
emergency
36.365 Days - ANSWER ✓ 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 for training) without the consent of
Congress.
37.Emergency Essential Employee - ANSWER ✓ A civilian who could be
deployed to a crisis area
38.Inherently Governmental - ANSWER ✓ Activities that are excluded from
competition under OMB Circular A-76
39.List Annually - ANSWER ✓ The frequency which Federal agencies must
compile lists of activities that are not inhjerently governmental
40.Work of Equal Value - ANSWER ✓ Based on the Merit principles, equal
pay should be provided for this type of work
41.Both - ANSWER ✓ Merit principles place the burden for good employee
performance on mangement or the employee
42.Written - ANSWER ✓ A disabled veteran with a service-connected
disability of 30 percent or more must be given this type of notice of a
propossed passover
43.1 year - ANSWER ✓ New Fereral employees normally serve a probationary
this period
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT
SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<BRAND NEW VERSION>
1. What was the first attempt to come up with a government? - ANSWER ✓
Articles of Confederation 1.1.5
2. What did an amendment to the Articles of Confederation require? -
ANSWER ✓ Unanimous approval of all the states 1.1.5
3. What did the Constitution establish - ANSWER ✓ 3 branches of government
(judicial, executive, legislative) 1.1.6
4. What is the essential principle of the Constitution - ANSWER ✓ Everything
you do must be legal (purpose, time, amount) 1.1.6
5. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called - ANSWER ✓
Bill of Rights 1.1.6
6. What does Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution state - ANSWER ✓
Congress shall have the authority to make all laws which shall be necessary
and proper for carrying into execution 1.1.7
7. Who heads the executive branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓ Led
by the president and vice president, enforces/executes laws
8. Who makes up the legislative branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓
Congress and it makes/passes our laws
,9. What are the two parts of Congress - ANSWER ✓ Senate and House of
Representatives
10.Who leads the judicial branch and what is its purpose - ANSWER ✓ Led by
the Supreme Court and interprets our laws
11.The organization of the Federal Government can be found where in the
Constitution - ANSWER ✓ In the first 3 articles 1.1.7
12.What does the preamble to the Constitution of the US begin with and how
do we exercise its sentiment - ANSWER ✓ "We the People of the United
States, in order to form a more perfect Union...."; we exercise this through
the election process. 1.1.7
13.Which Article of the Constitution discusses the legislative branch? -
ANSWER ✓ Article 1 1.1.7
14.Which Articles support which branches of Government? - ANSWER ✓
Article 1; Legislative, Article 2; Executive, Article 3, Judicial
15.What are the law-making powers of the Legislative Brach per Article 1 -
ANSWER ✓ Raise taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce, conscript
forces, declare war, raise and support armies 1.1.8
16.Conference Committee - ANSWER ✓ Committees that attempt to resolve
differences between the House and Senate versions of bills, sometimes
called the 'Third Chamber'
17.Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - ANSWER ✓ An Agency that
issues directions for use by other agencies in submitting their budget
estimates
18.Appropriations Acts - ANSWER ✓ Provides budgetary authroity
19.Allotment - ANSWER ✓ Subdivision of an Apportionment
20.OMB - ANSWER ✓ Issues approtionments
,21.Legislative Branch - ANSWER ✓ Branch of the government that conducts
hearings on the effectiveness of government programs, also known as
Congress.
22.Federal Agencies - ANSWER ✓ The organizations that actually prepare
budget estimates in the Federal budget process
23.Individual Income Taxes - ANSWER ✓ The largest single source of Federal
government tax revenues
24.Supplemental - ANSWER ✓ Requests for funds in addition to amounts
already appropriated
25.Appropriation Warrant - ANSWER ✓ Document issued by the Treasury
Department following the signature of the Appropriations Act
26.Deferral - ANSWER ✓ Postponement in the use of appropriated funds
27.Recession - ANSWER ✓ Cancellation of appropriated funds
28.Apportionment - ANSWER ✓ DoD requests this after the appropriation is
signed into law
29.Commitment - ANSWER ✓ An administrative reservation of funds
30.Authorization Legislation - ANSWER ✓ Gives a Federal agency the legal
authority to operate a program
31.Performance Audit - ANSWER ✓ When a Service Secretary asks his
internal audit organization to review a program to determine if it is using its
resources efficiently
32.OMB A-11 - ANSWER ✓ Where rules for calculating FTE employment can
be found
33.Force Structure - ANSWER ✓ Total units in a DoD component
, 34.Peacetime Strength - ANSWER ✓ 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 Future Years Defense Plan
(FYDP)
35.Mobilization - ANSWER ✓ Process that involves assembling, organizing,
and using manpower and material resources in preparation for war or other
emergency
36.365 Days - ANSWER ✓ 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 for training) without the consent of
Congress.
37.Emergency Essential Employee - ANSWER ✓ A civilian who could be
deployed to a crisis area
38.Inherently Governmental - ANSWER ✓ Activities that are excluded from
competition under OMB Circular A-76
39.List Annually - ANSWER ✓ The frequency which Federal agencies must
compile lists of activities that are not inhjerently governmental
40.Work of Equal Value - ANSWER ✓ Based on the Merit principles, equal
pay should be provided for this type of work
41.Both - ANSWER ✓ Merit principles place the burden for good employee
performance on mangement or the employee
42.Written - ANSWER ✓ A disabled veteran with a service-connected
disability of 30 percent or more must be given this type of notice of a
propossed passover
43.1 year - ANSWER ✓ New Fereral employees normally serve a probationary
this period
