AIPM- Exam 2 questions with accurate answers
A support strategy the Acquisition Logistician and the designated
Product Support Integrator (PSI) collaborate on for the best approach to
deliver a specific system readiness rate to the warfighter. Ans✓✓✓
Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
A system that communicates, assimilates, coordinates, analyzes,
interprets information, and provides decision support to military
commanders. Ans✓✓✓ Command, Control Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I)
Activities help protect and defend information and information systems
by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality,
and non-repudiation. Ans✓✓✓ Information Assurance (IA)
Additional data that may be needed depending on the purpose and
objectives of a specific architecture. Ans✓✓✓ Supporting products
Address the broad areas of a contractor's proposal that will be reviewed
and assessed by the Government to form the basis for the contract award
decision. Ans✓✓✓ Evaluation factors
Allow attainment of operational performance requirements; help
measure performance and ensure system can meet MOEs/MOSs.
Ans✓✓✓ Critical Technical Parameters (CTPs)
,An acquisition policy requirement for all ACAT programs and requires
an analysis of: ESOH Compliance; Safety and Occupational Health;
Hazardous Materials Management; Pollution Prevention (P2); National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); Executive Order 13101?
. Ans✓✓✓ Programmatic Environmental, Safety, and Occupational
Health Evaluation (PESHE)
An integrated Gov-Contractor style of negotiation that relies on a team
approach to come to an agreement? Ans✓✓✓ Alpha contracting
Any previously developed items regardless of the source of development
and used exclusively for governmental purposes by federal, state, local,
or allied governments (may require minor modifications). Ans✓✓✓
NDIs (Non-Developmental Items)
Architecture is one that uses open specifications to define interfaces,
services and supporting formats. Allows applications to be more easily
used on different platforms and promotes interoperability, allowing
systems to interact with users in a consistent way. Ans✓✓✓ Open
Systems (OS)
Are GIGs required for all systems? Ans✓✓✓ Yes
As part of a program's pollution prevention strategy, the ESOH impacts
of a system shall be identified for which aspect of the system's life
cycle? Ans✓✓✓ Demilitarization and Disposal
,Operations & Support
Testing
Manufacturing
Because similar domains require similar architectures, a key
precondition for the development of a robust architecture is the use of
___________. Ans✓✓✓ Domain engineering.
Boundaries between a system end product and another external system
end product or between a human and the threat environment in which
the system products will be used or operated. Ans✓✓✓ External
interfaces
Boundaries between products within a system model that are controlled
by the developer or by the government's technical effort. Ans✓✓✓
Internal interfaces
Changes to the Service and agency POMs are documented in ______,
which is issued by the Secretary of Defense. Ans✓✓✓ Program
Decision Memorandum (PDM)
Chartered to promulgate policy and guidance for the safe development,
manufacturing, testing, transport, handling, storage, maintenance,
demilitarization, and disposal of ordnance/explosives worldwide.
Ans✓✓✓ DoD Explosive Safety Board (DDESB)
, Cost accounting standards relate to what? Ans✓✓✓ Allocability, not
allowability, of costs.
Created to ensure consistent description of architectures, to facilitate
communications, to be modular, reusable and decomposable. It uses
uniform terms and definitions and describes interoperability
requirements in consistent way. Ans✓✓✓ DoD Architecture Framework
Determine degree to which system is supportable in its intended
environment. Ans✓✓✓ Measures of Suitability (MOS)
Determine degree to which system performs its mission. Ans✓✓✓
Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)
Determines operational effectiveness and suitability as defined in the
Capability Development Document (CDD) and Capability Production
Document (CPD). Ans✓✓✓ Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E)
Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) does what? Ans✓✓✓
Measures technical performance against the design specifications.
Directs DoD and other Government agencies to use environmentally
responsible products and services ("Greening the Government"); also
implements cost-effective procurement preference programs favoring
enviornmentally responsible products and services. Ans✓✓✓ Executive
Order 13101
A support strategy the Acquisition Logistician and the designated
Product Support Integrator (PSI) collaborate on for the best approach to
deliver a specific system readiness rate to the warfighter. Ans✓✓✓
Performance Based Logistics (PBL)
A system that communicates, assimilates, coordinates, analyzes,
interprets information, and provides decision support to military
commanders. Ans✓✓✓ Command, Control Communications,
Computers, and Intelligence (C4I)
Activities help protect and defend information and information systems
by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality,
and non-repudiation. Ans✓✓✓ Information Assurance (IA)
Additional data that may be needed depending on the purpose and
objectives of a specific architecture. Ans✓✓✓ Supporting products
Address the broad areas of a contractor's proposal that will be reviewed
and assessed by the Government to form the basis for the contract award
decision. Ans✓✓✓ Evaluation factors
Allow attainment of operational performance requirements; help
measure performance and ensure system can meet MOEs/MOSs.
Ans✓✓✓ Critical Technical Parameters (CTPs)
,An acquisition policy requirement for all ACAT programs and requires
an analysis of: ESOH Compliance; Safety and Occupational Health;
Hazardous Materials Management; Pollution Prevention (P2); National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); Executive Order 13101?
. Ans✓✓✓ Programmatic Environmental, Safety, and Occupational
Health Evaluation (PESHE)
An integrated Gov-Contractor style of negotiation that relies on a team
approach to come to an agreement? Ans✓✓✓ Alpha contracting
Any previously developed items regardless of the source of development
and used exclusively for governmental purposes by federal, state, local,
or allied governments (may require minor modifications). Ans✓✓✓
NDIs (Non-Developmental Items)
Architecture is one that uses open specifications to define interfaces,
services and supporting formats. Allows applications to be more easily
used on different platforms and promotes interoperability, allowing
systems to interact with users in a consistent way. Ans✓✓✓ Open
Systems (OS)
Are GIGs required for all systems? Ans✓✓✓ Yes
As part of a program's pollution prevention strategy, the ESOH impacts
of a system shall be identified for which aspect of the system's life
cycle? Ans✓✓✓ Demilitarization and Disposal
,Operations & Support
Testing
Manufacturing
Because similar domains require similar architectures, a key
precondition for the development of a robust architecture is the use of
___________. Ans✓✓✓ Domain engineering.
Boundaries between a system end product and another external system
end product or between a human and the threat environment in which
the system products will be used or operated. Ans✓✓✓ External
interfaces
Boundaries between products within a system model that are controlled
by the developer or by the government's technical effort. Ans✓✓✓
Internal interfaces
Changes to the Service and agency POMs are documented in ______,
which is issued by the Secretary of Defense. Ans✓✓✓ Program
Decision Memorandum (PDM)
Chartered to promulgate policy and guidance for the safe development,
manufacturing, testing, transport, handling, storage, maintenance,
demilitarization, and disposal of ordnance/explosives worldwide.
Ans✓✓✓ DoD Explosive Safety Board (DDESB)
, Cost accounting standards relate to what? Ans✓✓✓ Allocability, not
allowability, of costs.
Created to ensure consistent description of architectures, to facilitate
communications, to be modular, reusable and decomposable. It uses
uniform terms and definitions and describes interoperability
requirements in consistent way. Ans✓✓✓ DoD Architecture Framework
Determine degree to which system is supportable in its intended
environment. Ans✓✓✓ Measures of Suitability (MOS)
Determine degree to which system performs its mission. Ans✓✓✓
Measures of Effectiveness (MOE)
Determines operational effectiveness and suitability as defined in the
Capability Development Document (CDD) and Capability Production
Document (CPD). Ans✓✓✓ Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E)
Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) does what? Ans✓✓✓
Measures technical performance against the design specifications.
Directs DoD and other Government agencies to use environmentally
responsible products and services ("Greening the Government"); also
implements cost-effective procurement preference programs favoring
enviornmentally responsible products and services. Ans✓✓✓ Executive
Order 13101
