CON 1100V COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● In what should the contracting officer take the lead?
Answer: Encouraging business process innovations.
●● In what should the contracting officer ensure?
Answer: Ensuring that business decisions are sound.
●● The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) includes six pathways
to enable the workforce to tailor strategies to delivery better solutions
faster.
Answer: Urgent Capability Acquisition
Middle Tier of Acquisitions
Major Capability Acquisition
Software Acquisition
Defense Business Systems
Acquisition of Services
●● Which pathway is to rapidly develop fieldable prototypes within an
acquisition program to demonstrate new capabilities and/or rapidly field
,production quantities of systems with proven technologies that require
minimal development?
Answer: Middle Tier of Acquisition
●● Which pathway is to acquire information systems that support DoD
business operations?
Answer: Defense Business Systems
●● Which pathway is to field capabilities to fulfill urgent existing and/or
emerging operational needs or quick reactions in less than two years?
Answer: Urgent Capability Acquisition
●● Which pathway is to acquire services from the private sector
including knowledge-based, construction, electronics and
communications, equipment, facilities, product support, logistics,
medical, research and development, and transportation services?
Answer: Acquisition of Services
●● Which pathway is to facilitate rapid and iterative delivery of
software capability systems (e.g., software-intensive systems and/or
software-intensive components or sub-systems) to the user?
Answer: Software Acquisition
, ●● Which pathway does this describe is to acquire and modernize
military unique programs that provide enduring capability?
Answer: Major Capability Acquisition
●● Acquisition planning must involve all personnel responsible for
significant aspect of the acquisition. What is the purpose of acquisition
planning?
Answer: The purpose of this planning is to ensure that the Government
meets its needs in the most effective, economical, and timely manner.
●● Which of the following is true about market research?
Answer: Collecting and analyzing information about capabilities within
the market to satisfy agency needs
●● Simplified acquisition is an acquisition method prescribed by FAR
Part 13 for purchasing supplies and services, including construction,
research and development, and commercial products and commercial
services, for which the aggregate amount does not exceed a certain limit.
What is this limit called?
Answer: The simplified acquisition threshold.
●● What is the dollar amount of this limit?
Answer: Equal to or less than $250,000.
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● In what should the contracting officer take the lead?
Answer: Encouraging business process innovations.
●● In what should the contracting officer ensure?
Answer: Ensuring that business decisions are sound.
●● The Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) includes six pathways
to enable the workforce to tailor strategies to delivery better solutions
faster.
Answer: Urgent Capability Acquisition
Middle Tier of Acquisitions
Major Capability Acquisition
Software Acquisition
Defense Business Systems
Acquisition of Services
●● Which pathway is to rapidly develop fieldable prototypes within an
acquisition program to demonstrate new capabilities and/or rapidly field
,production quantities of systems with proven technologies that require
minimal development?
Answer: Middle Tier of Acquisition
●● Which pathway is to acquire information systems that support DoD
business operations?
Answer: Defense Business Systems
●● Which pathway is to field capabilities to fulfill urgent existing and/or
emerging operational needs or quick reactions in less than two years?
Answer: Urgent Capability Acquisition
●● Which pathway is to acquire services from the private sector
including knowledge-based, construction, electronics and
communications, equipment, facilities, product support, logistics,
medical, research and development, and transportation services?
Answer: Acquisition of Services
●● Which pathway is to facilitate rapid and iterative delivery of
software capability systems (e.g., software-intensive systems and/or
software-intensive components or sub-systems) to the user?
Answer: Software Acquisition
, ●● Which pathway does this describe is to acquire and modernize
military unique programs that provide enduring capability?
Answer: Major Capability Acquisition
●● Acquisition planning must involve all personnel responsible for
significant aspect of the acquisition. What is the purpose of acquisition
planning?
Answer: The purpose of this planning is to ensure that the Government
meets its needs in the most effective, economical, and timely manner.
●● Which of the following is true about market research?
Answer: Collecting and analyzing information about capabilities within
the market to satisfy agency needs
●● Simplified acquisition is an acquisition method prescribed by FAR
Part 13 for purchasing supplies and services, including construction,
research and development, and commercial products and commercial
services, for which the aggregate amount does not exceed a certain limit.
What is this limit called?
Answer: The simplified acquisition threshold.
●● What is the dollar amount of this limit?
Answer: Equal to or less than $250,000.
