PART 1: Apportionment Questions Fully
Solved.
An expired appropriation may be used to: (select two answers) - Answer -Make new
obligations
-*Make payments to liquidate obligations previously made against it*
-*Adjust obligations previously made against it*
-Pay bills related to a cancelled appropriation of the same type, up to 1% of the expired
appropriation amount or the unliquidated balance of the cancelled appropriation, whichever is
less
The Department of Defense moved funds from the Overseas Contingency Transfer Fund to the
Army`s Military Personnel appropriation to cover extra costs associated with deploying troops
unexpectedly to Afghanistan. This action required: - Answer -Below-threshold reprogramming
-*(WRONG) Congressional notification reprogramming*
-Congressional prior approval reprogramming
-Internal reprogramming
True or False. There are only two hard and fast criteria that the business activity must meet in
order to be included in a Working Capital Fund. They are 1) produce identifiable outputs, and 2)
these outputs can only serve DoD agency requirements. - Answer -True
-*False*
$150,000 was committed in February for a research and development contract to be awarded in
May. Unfortunately, the lowest bid received by the Procuring Contracting Officer was $200,000.
According to the rules governing commitments: (select one) - Answer -The $200,000 obligation
for the contract award can be recorded without adjusting the original commitment amount
-The official who authorized the original commitment need not take any action
-A new commitment for an additional $200,000 should be recorded
-*The original commitment amount must be increased to $200,000 before the obligation can be
recorded*
Which of the following is true concerning below-threshold reprogrammings in Military
Construction appropriations? - Answer -The amount added to an existing Line Item must be