CDFM Module 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%ACCURATE.
What are the OSD Decision Making Forums? - ✅✅3 star program review
Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG)
Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member of the Armed
Services - ✅✅Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act 1986
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom - ✅✅The
Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for accomplishing the
assigned military mission? - ✅✅President and Secretary of Defense
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials and/or
organizations? - ✅✅President, National Security Council, Secretary of Defense
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council - ✅✅President
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of the
Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress - ✅✅Planning, Programming, Budget
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 - ✅✅PPBE (planning,
programming, Budget, execution)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the PPBE
process - ✅✅Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing programming
guidance? - ✅✅Director, Cost Assessment and Program evaluation D,CAPE
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to the SECDEF
for budget and financial matters? - ✅✅Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief
Financial Officer
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the Chairman
of what Board - ✅✅Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
,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 2021. What is the first PPBE related
document in which you could identify resources for that requirement - ✅✅POM 2017 - 2021
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - ✅✅Defense Planning
Guidance (DPG)
What is the 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? - ✅✅Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and
equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? - ✅✅Future
Years Defense Program (FYDP)
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated into
requested resources in an appropriations format - ✅✅Budgeting (Budget Development)
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? (This document provides SECDEF with the JCS evaluation of the Military Departments
submissions) - ✅✅Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct a review of
Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been resolved. Resolution of these
issues may displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline. What is the name of this
review? - ✅✅Issue Resolution
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and 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 SECDEF for a decision. Once signed by one of those senior officials ,
what is the document called? - ✅✅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? -
✅✅Comptroller Information System (CIS)
Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy? - ✅✅Full Funding Policy
Within what type of document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an
appropriation account remains current and available for new obligations? - ✅✅An
appropriation bill (becomes law when signed by President)
,There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its appropriations.
Name those two methods - ✅✅Contracts and MIPRS
Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal Agency for specific
services, the cited appropriation has gone into an expired status and the servicing agency has
neither provided the ordered services nor has entered into an authorized contract with another
entity to provide ordered services. What must now be done with those obligated funds? -
✅✅De-obligate
What is the term used for shifting funds between appropriations? - ✅✅Transfer action
What is the long term financial goal of a working capital fund? - ✅✅To break even
A working capital fund has an officer (O-4) properly assigned to the organization and that officer
is doing the work that would normally be performed by a GS-13. For managerial cost accounting
purposes, is the "cost" of that officer's pay and benefits "charged" at the military O-4 rate or the
civilian GS-13 rate? - ✅✅Civilian GS-13 rate (and the proper MILPER account is reimbursed
for that amount)
Assume your organization overpaid a contractor on a contract awarded with an appropriation that
is now in the cancelled status, and the contractor has sent in a check for that overpayment. What
can your organization legally do with that refund from the contractor? - ✅✅Credit the refund
to the miscellaneous receipts of the US Treasury
Monies not appropriated by Congress that are generated primarily from the sale of goods and
services are known as what? - ✅✅Non-appropriated Funds
What is the mission of the DoD? - ✅✅Deter war
To protect the security of our country
Who reports to the SECDEF - ✅✅3 Military Departments (Army, Navy, Air Force)
17 Defense agencies
Multiple field activites
Trained and ready forces are assigned to a Combatant Commander responsible for conducting
military operation by whom? - ✅✅President and SECDEF when a military action is required
Organizational structure of Joint Chiefs of Staff - ✅✅SECDEF to CJCS - Vice Chair JCS -
Military Components - Joint Staff (J1-J8)
Is the Chairman in the operational chain of command between the President and Combatant
Commands - ✅✅CJSC is not in the operational chain of command
What is the main mission of the JCS - ✅✅Planning (Operating, Contingency, Long Range)
, What is the JCS function within the chain of command? - ✅✅Transmits to the commanders of
the Combatant Commands the orders of the President or the SECDEF
Who are the principal members of the National Security Council (NSC) - ✅✅President
(Chairman), Vice President, SECDEF, Secretary of State, Secretary of Energy
What is the purpose of the National Security Council (NSC)? - ✅✅The President's principal
form for consideration of national security and foreign policy matters
The National Security Strategy (NSS) comes from the National Security Council. What is the
name of the document that contains the discussions/decisions for the National Security Council -
✅✅National Security Presidential Directives
What are the Defense Strategic Guidance to achieve National Security Strategy Objectives -
✅✅Counter Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Deter and Defeat Aggression
Project Power Despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges
Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
Operate Effectively in Cyberspace and Space
Maintain a Safe, Secure, and Effective Nuclear Deterrent
Defend the Homeland and Provide Support to Civil Authorities
Provide a stabilizing Presence
Conduct Stability and Counterinsurgency Operations
Conduct Humanitarian, Disaster Relief
What is the Quadrennial Defense Review and how often is it prepared? - ✅✅Quadrennial
Defense Review (QDR) is prepared every 4 years following a presidential election to summarize
the military goals, objectives and strategy for the coming four years (typically due February of
second year of presidential term)
What is the National Military Strategy (NMS) and who prepares it? - ✅✅Developed by
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Addresses objectives in the DoD Strategic Plan that need military response. Recommendations
are the plan to accomplish the goals in the National Security Strategy
The National Military Strategy (NMS) makes what recommendations? - ✅✅National military
objectives, fiscally constrained force levels, military strategies, and force options.
Provides Risk Assessment of strategy, forces, and options
What is the Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support (SHD&CS) and who prepares it? -
✅✅Prepared by Secretary of Defense
Focus on demands of DoD to address threats to the US.
What are the OSD Decision Making Forums? - ✅✅3 star program review
Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG)
Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member of the Armed
Services - ✅✅Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization Act 1986
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom - ✅✅The
Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for accomplishing the
assigned military mission? - ✅✅President and Secretary of Defense
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials and/or
organizations? - ✅✅President, National Security Council, Secretary of Defense
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council - ✅✅President
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of the
Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress - ✅✅Planning, Programming, Budget
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 - ✅✅PPBE (planning,
programming, Budget, execution)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of the PPBE
process - ✅✅Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing programming
guidance? - ✅✅Director, Cost Assessment and Program evaluation D,CAPE
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to the SECDEF
for budget and financial matters? - ✅✅Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief
Financial Officer
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as the Chairman
of what Board - ✅✅Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
,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 2021. What is the first PPBE related
document in which you could identify resources for that requirement - ✅✅POM 2017 - 2021
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - ✅✅Defense Planning
Guidance (DPG)
What is the 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? - ✅✅Integrated Program/Budget Review Guidance
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources, and
equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? - ✅✅Future
Years Defense Program (FYDP)
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are translated into
requested resources in an appropriations format - ✅✅Budgeting (Budget Development)
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? (This document provides SECDEF with the JCS evaluation of the Military Departments
submissions) - ✅✅Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct a review of
Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been resolved. Resolution of these
issues may displace other programs within the fixed DoD topline. What is the name of this
review? - ✅✅Issue Resolution
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and 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 SECDEF for a decision. Once signed by one of those senior officials ,
what is the document called? - ✅✅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? -
✅✅Comptroller Information System (CIS)
Advance Procurement is an exception to what funding policy? - ✅✅Full Funding Policy
Within what type of document does Congress specify the number of fiscal years that an
appropriation account remains current and available for new obligations? - ✅✅An
appropriation bill (becomes law when signed by President)
,There are two primary methods by which DoD obligates the vast majority of its appropriations.
Name those two methods - ✅✅Contracts and MIPRS
Assume an agency has issued an Economy Act order to another Federal Agency for specific
services, the cited appropriation has gone into an expired status and the servicing agency has
neither provided the ordered services nor has entered into an authorized contract with another
entity to provide ordered services. What must now be done with those obligated funds? -
✅✅De-obligate
What is the term used for shifting funds between appropriations? - ✅✅Transfer action
What is the long term financial goal of a working capital fund? - ✅✅To break even
A working capital fund has an officer (O-4) properly assigned to the organization and that officer
is doing the work that would normally be performed by a GS-13. For managerial cost accounting
purposes, is the "cost" of that officer's pay and benefits "charged" at the military O-4 rate or the
civilian GS-13 rate? - ✅✅Civilian GS-13 rate (and the proper MILPER account is reimbursed
for that amount)
Assume your organization overpaid a contractor on a contract awarded with an appropriation that
is now in the cancelled status, and the contractor has sent in a check for that overpayment. What
can your organization legally do with that refund from the contractor? - ✅✅Credit the refund
to the miscellaneous receipts of the US Treasury
Monies not appropriated by Congress that are generated primarily from the sale of goods and
services are known as what? - ✅✅Non-appropriated Funds
What is the mission of the DoD? - ✅✅Deter war
To protect the security of our country
Who reports to the SECDEF - ✅✅3 Military Departments (Army, Navy, Air Force)
17 Defense agencies
Multiple field activites
Trained and ready forces are assigned to a Combatant Commander responsible for conducting
military operation by whom? - ✅✅President and SECDEF when a military action is required
Organizational structure of Joint Chiefs of Staff - ✅✅SECDEF to CJCS - Vice Chair JCS -
Military Components - Joint Staff (J1-J8)
Is the Chairman in the operational chain of command between the President and Combatant
Commands - ✅✅CJSC is not in the operational chain of command
What is the main mission of the JCS - ✅✅Planning (Operating, Contingency, Long Range)
, What is the JCS function within the chain of command? - ✅✅Transmits to the commanders of
the Combatant Commands the orders of the President or the SECDEF
Who are the principal members of the National Security Council (NSC) - ✅✅President
(Chairman), Vice President, SECDEF, Secretary of State, Secretary of Energy
What is the purpose of the National Security Council (NSC)? - ✅✅The President's principal
form for consideration of national security and foreign policy matters
The National Security Strategy (NSS) comes from the National Security Council. What is the
name of the document that contains the discussions/decisions for the National Security Council -
✅✅National Security Presidential Directives
What are the Defense Strategic Guidance to achieve National Security Strategy Objectives -
✅✅Counter Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Deter and Defeat Aggression
Project Power Despite Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges
Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction
Operate Effectively in Cyberspace and Space
Maintain a Safe, Secure, and Effective Nuclear Deterrent
Defend the Homeland and Provide Support to Civil Authorities
Provide a stabilizing Presence
Conduct Stability and Counterinsurgency Operations
Conduct Humanitarian, Disaster Relief
What is the Quadrennial Defense Review and how often is it prepared? - ✅✅Quadrennial
Defense Review (QDR) is prepared every 4 years following a presidential election to summarize
the military goals, objectives and strategy for the coming four years (typically due February of
second year of presidential term)
What is the National Military Strategy (NMS) and who prepares it? - ✅✅Developed by
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Addresses objectives in the DoD Strategic Plan that need military response. Recommendations
are the plan to accomplish the goals in the National Security Strategy
The National Military Strategy (NMS) makes what recommendations? - ✅✅National military
objectives, fiscally constrained force levels, military strategies, and force options.
Provides Risk Assessment of strategy, forces, and options
What is the Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support (SHD&CS) and who prepares it? -
✅✅Prepared by Secretary of Defense
Focus on demands of DoD to address threats to the US.
