CPPA TETS PAPER 2025 QUESTIONS ANSD SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔What was Committee E53 charged with as their first task once they were
established via a partnership between the NPMA and ASTM International? - ✔✔The
development of management systems criteria and methods of effectiveness for the
conduct of management and administration activities for durable and movable assets.
✔✔What does the general areas of interest of Committee E53 include? - ✔✔Standard
practices to support all aspects of personal property management, including systems for
the management of industrial and Federal state, and local government personal
property as well as educational and medical institution property
✔✔For TC E53, What agencies are currently included for classifications? - ✔✔1.
Colleges and universities
2. Commercial enterprises
3. Federal agencies and departments
4. Government contractors
5. Service provided, consultants, hardware suppliers, and software suppliers
6. Specialists having expert knowledge not otherwise covered by another category of
interest
7. State and local governments
✔✔To ensure balance, not more than ____________ of the membership comes from
any single category. - ✔✔1/3
✔✔What are the duties of the Technical Committee E53? - ✔✔- Developing standards
within its scope
- Maintaining standards within its scope
- Achieving a consensus for the action proposed on a standard
- Ensuring that duplication of standards is minimized
- Not promulgating conflicting standards
- Providing for interpretations of standards within its scope, if applicable, as determined
by the COTCO
,- Reporting the status of standards within its scope to the COTCO at least annually
✔✔What are the specific areas of Committee E53? - ✔✔They include all aspects of
personal property management from the determination of needs and initial acquisition
through final disposition, including receipt, identification and marking, record keeping,
custodial and administrative accountability, reporting, consumption, maintenance,
movement, storage, inventory, control utilization, and disposition.
✔✔What is the purpose of the ASTM International Bylaws? - ✔✔It assigns the
supervision of standards activities to the Committee on Technical Committee
Operations (COTCO).
✔✔What does the COTCO manage? - ✔✔It manages the development of standards
through the establishment and supervision of one or more Technical Committees (TC)
by specific functional areas
✔✔What are the COTCO's responsibilities with respect to standards development and
maintenance by TCs? - ✔✔- Approving and discharging TC personnel
- Ensuring that any TC under its jurisdiction is operating with its approved scope and
according to ASTM International-compliant procedures
- Ensuring that TCs with the charter of the Committee are providing due process
- Providing a forum for hearing appeals of actions or inaction by TCs
✔✔Approximately, how many members are on the E53 committee? - ✔✔70 members
✔✔How many approved standards does the 70 members of the E53 committee have
jurisdiction over?? - ✔✔12
✔✔Where are the 12 approved standards of E53 committee published? - ✔✔in the
Annual Book of ATSM Standards, Vol. 4.12
✔✔What is requirements determination? - ✔✔It is the process of identifying and
justifying future property acquisitions and providing the necessary funds
✔✔What is the task of property management? - ✔✔To manage the property the
organization needs to meet the objectives at the lowest costs
✔✔What information must the property manager have to be fully aware of the overall
picture to be effective in requirements determination? - ✔✔- Organizational objectives
, - Target dates for achieving them
- Any funding restrictions
- Type and quantity of property needed
✔✔What must the majority of the information identified during requirements
determination compiled as a part of? - ✔✔Budget Process
✔✔What information can the property manager provide to maximize the effective
acquisition of assets? - ✔✔- Potential vendors
- Lease vs. Buy recommendations
- Cost of comparable property already in use
- Reliability of candidate brands and models
- Information related to make-or-buy decisions
- Possible locations for acquired property once it has been placed in service
✔✔What terms must property management be defined as? - ✔✔The processes,
programs, and objectives which must be supported by the property system
✔✔If property must be acquired to meet organization objectives, who should be
involved from beginning in the planning process? - ✔✔Property Manager
✔✔To be effective in requirement determination, what must the property manager
aware of? - ✔✔The overall picture including organizational objectives, the target dates
for achieving them, any funding restrictions, and the type and quantity of property
needed
✔✔Since most organizations' asset bases far exceed their annual payroll value, what
can be done by reducing these two areas to get a bigger benefit than larger gains in
productivity? - ✔✔1. Reduce the cost of acquiring
2. Reduction of holding property
✔✔Besides looking very closely at the organization's objectives, what role does the
Property Manager play in the resource allocation process and in all aspects of the
planning and acquisition of organization assets? - ✔✔- Review by each department of
its plans with respect to the organization's strategic plan
RATED A+
✔✔What was Committee E53 charged with as their first task once they were
established via a partnership between the NPMA and ASTM International? - ✔✔The
development of management systems criteria and methods of effectiveness for the
conduct of management and administration activities for durable and movable assets.
✔✔What does the general areas of interest of Committee E53 include? - ✔✔Standard
practices to support all aspects of personal property management, including systems for
the management of industrial and Federal state, and local government personal
property as well as educational and medical institution property
✔✔For TC E53, What agencies are currently included for classifications? - ✔✔1.
Colleges and universities
2. Commercial enterprises
3. Federal agencies and departments
4. Government contractors
5. Service provided, consultants, hardware suppliers, and software suppliers
6. Specialists having expert knowledge not otherwise covered by another category of
interest
7. State and local governments
✔✔To ensure balance, not more than ____________ of the membership comes from
any single category. - ✔✔1/3
✔✔What are the duties of the Technical Committee E53? - ✔✔- Developing standards
within its scope
- Maintaining standards within its scope
- Achieving a consensus for the action proposed on a standard
- Ensuring that duplication of standards is minimized
- Not promulgating conflicting standards
- Providing for interpretations of standards within its scope, if applicable, as determined
by the COTCO
,- Reporting the status of standards within its scope to the COTCO at least annually
✔✔What are the specific areas of Committee E53? - ✔✔They include all aspects of
personal property management from the determination of needs and initial acquisition
through final disposition, including receipt, identification and marking, record keeping,
custodial and administrative accountability, reporting, consumption, maintenance,
movement, storage, inventory, control utilization, and disposition.
✔✔What is the purpose of the ASTM International Bylaws? - ✔✔It assigns the
supervision of standards activities to the Committee on Technical Committee
Operations (COTCO).
✔✔What does the COTCO manage? - ✔✔It manages the development of standards
through the establishment and supervision of one or more Technical Committees (TC)
by specific functional areas
✔✔What are the COTCO's responsibilities with respect to standards development and
maintenance by TCs? - ✔✔- Approving and discharging TC personnel
- Ensuring that any TC under its jurisdiction is operating with its approved scope and
according to ASTM International-compliant procedures
- Ensuring that TCs with the charter of the Committee are providing due process
- Providing a forum for hearing appeals of actions or inaction by TCs
✔✔Approximately, how many members are on the E53 committee? - ✔✔70 members
✔✔How many approved standards does the 70 members of the E53 committee have
jurisdiction over?? - ✔✔12
✔✔Where are the 12 approved standards of E53 committee published? - ✔✔in the
Annual Book of ATSM Standards, Vol. 4.12
✔✔What is requirements determination? - ✔✔It is the process of identifying and
justifying future property acquisitions and providing the necessary funds
✔✔What is the task of property management? - ✔✔To manage the property the
organization needs to meet the objectives at the lowest costs
✔✔What information must the property manager have to be fully aware of the overall
picture to be effective in requirements determination? - ✔✔- Organizational objectives
, - Target dates for achieving them
- Any funding restrictions
- Type and quantity of property needed
✔✔What must the majority of the information identified during requirements
determination compiled as a part of? - ✔✔Budget Process
✔✔What information can the property manager provide to maximize the effective
acquisition of assets? - ✔✔- Potential vendors
- Lease vs. Buy recommendations
- Cost of comparable property already in use
- Reliability of candidate brands and models
- Information related to make-or-buy decisions
- Possible locations for acquired property once it has been placed in service
✔✔What terms must property management be defined as? - ✔✔The processes,
programs, and objectives which must be supported by the property system
✔✔If property must be acquired to meet organization objectives, who should be
involved from beginning in the planning process? - ✔✔Property Manager
✔✔To be effective in requirement determination, what must the property manager
aware of? - ✔✔The overall picture including organizational objectives, the target dates
for achieving them, any funding restrictions, and the type and quantity of property
needed
✔✔Since most organizations' asset bases far exceed their annual payroll value, what
can be done by reducing these two areas to get a bigger benefit than larger gains in
productivity? - ✔✔1. Reduce the cost of acquiring
2. Reduction of holding property
✔✔Besides looking very closely at the organization's objectives, what role does the
Property Manager play in the resource allocation process and in all aspects of the
planning and acquisition of organization assets? - ✔✔- Review by each department of
its plans with respect to the organization's strategic plan
