CPCM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Anticipated Reimbursement - ✔✔The amount of reimbursements expected to be
earned and added to appropriation or other funding authority in order to cover
obligations incurred in performance of work, services, procurement for material, or
material delivered from stock
✔✔Patent - ✔✔A govt grant of exlcusive rights an an inventor that prohibits others from
making, using, or selling an invention. The current term for patents is 20 years
✔✔Copyright - ✔✔a royalty-free, non exclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce,
translate, publish, use, and dispose of written or recorded material and to authorized
others to do so.
Copyright is valid for the life of the author plus 70 years
✔✔Trademark - ✔✔Distinctive mark of authenticity. Words, symbols, devices, or
designs affixed to or placed on an article or its container to identify an article offered for
sale.
Also include "service marks" which designate particular manners or modes of service
delivery protected as intellectual property
✔✔Technical Data - ✔✔1. Recorded information regardless of the form or method of the
recording, of a scientific or technical nature (including computer software
DOCUMENTATION)
2. Manuals or drawings necessary to operate and maintain a defense system
3. Documentation of computer programs and related software
NOT TECHNICAL DATA:
-Computer programs and related software
-financial data
-other information related to contract administration
✔✔Licensing - ✔✔Permits the use of software, patents, trademarks, or technology by
another entity without transferring ownership rights
✔✔Trade Secrets Act - ✔✔Restricts disclosure of trade secrets and provides for civil
and criminal penalties for violations
✔✔US Patent and trademark office (USPTO) - ✔✔US patents are only effective with the
US, US territories and US possessions
-DOES NOT ENFORCE PATENTS
-Issues patents
, ✔✔Shop Rights - ✔✔The right of an employer to use, without payment or royalties, an
invention conceived by an employee in the course of the employment or through the
use of the employer's facilities if the employee was not hired to perform such work
✔✔Royalties - ✔✔Any costs or charges in the nature of royalties, license fees, patent or
license amortization costs, or the like that are paid for the use of or for rights in patents
and paten applications in connection with performing a contract or subcontract
✔✔Trade Secret - ✔✔A form of legal protection for any information used in a
commercial trade or business that is not generally known in the trade, is used in
secrecy, and affords a competitive advantage.
✔✔Acquisition Plan (AP) - ✔✔-A plan for an acquisition that serves as the basis for
initiating the contracting actions necessary to acquire a system or support a program
-Should identify the milestones at which decisions should be made and address all
technical, business, management, and other significant considerations that will control
the acquisition
✔✔Acquisition Methodology - ✔✔A means of requesting or inviting offerors to submit
offers, generally by issuing a solicitation
-draft contract
-Provisions for preparing and submitting offers
-evaluation factors
✔✔Capital programming - ✔✔An integrated process within an agency for planning,
budgeting, procurement and management of the agency's portfolio of capital assets to
achieve agency strategic goals and objectives with the lowest lifecycle cost and least
risk
✔✔Effective Competition - ✔✔-A market condition that exists when 2 or more
responsible offerors acting independently contend for a contract that results in the buyer
receiving either:
-the lowest price/cost alternative or
-the optimal combination of technical design coupled with cost-effective price
✔✔tradeoff process - ✔✔-In a negotiated acquisition, a procedure that permits
consideration of tradeoffs among cost or price and non-cost factors and allows the
government to accept other than the lowest-price proposal
-The perceived benefits of the higher priced proposal must merit the additional
cost, and the rationale for tradeoffs must be documented in the contract file
✔✔Four P's of Marketing - ✔✔Product
Price
Place
Promotion
✔✔Anticipated Reimbursement - ✔✔The amount of reimbursements expected to be
earned and added to appropriation or other funding authority in order to cover
obligations incurred in performance of work, services, procurement for material, or
material delivered from stock
✔✔Patent - ✔✔A govt grant of exlcusive rights an an inventor that prohibits others from
making, using, or selling an invention. The current term for patents is 20 years
✔✔Copyright - ✔✔a royalty-free, non exclusive, and irrevocable license to reproduce,
translate, publish, use, and dispose of written or recorded material and to authorized
others to do so.
Copyright is valid for the life of the author plus 70 years
✔✔Trademark - ✔✔Distinctive mark of authenticity. Words, symbols, devices, or
designs affixed to or placed on an article or its container to identify an article offered for
sale.
Also include "service marks" which designate particular manners or modes of service
delivery protected as intellectual property
✔✔Technical Data - ✔✔1. Recorded information regardless of the form or method of the
recording, of a scientific or technical nature (including computer software
DOCUMENTATION)
2. Manuals or drawings necessary to operate and maintain a defense system
3. Documentation of computer programs and related software
NOT TECHNICAL DATA:
-Computer programs and related software
-financial data
-other information related to contract administration
✔✔Licensing - ✔✔Permits the use of software, patents, trademarks, or technology by
another entity without transferring ownership rights
✔✔Trade Secrets Act - ✔✔Restricts disclosure of trade secrets and provides for civil
and criminal penalties for violations
✔✔US Patent and trademark office (USPTO) - ✔✔US patents are only effective with the
US, US territories and US possessions
-DOES NOT ENFORCE PATENTS
-Issues patents
, ✔✔Shop Rights - ✔✔The right of an employer to use, without payment or royalties, an
invention conceived by an employee in the course of the employment or through the
use of the employer's facilities if the employee was not hired to perform such work
✔✔Royalties - ✔✔Any costs or charges in the nature of royalties, license fees, patent or
license amortization costs, or the like that are paid for the use of or for rights in patents
and paten applications in connection with performing a contract or subcontract
✔✔Trade Secret - ✔✔A form of legal protection for any information used in a
commercial trade or business that is not generally known in the trade, is used in
secrecy, and affords a competitive advantage.
✔✔Acquisition Plan (AP) - ✔✔-A plan for an acquisition that serves as the basis for
initiating the contracting actions necessary to acquire a system or support a program
-Should identify the milestones at which decisions should be made and address all
technical, business, management, and other significant considerations that will control
the acquisition
✔✔Acquisition Methodology - ✔✔A means of requesting or inviting offerors to submit
offers, generally by issuing a solicitation
-draft contract
-Provisions for preparing and submitting offers
-evaluation factors
✔✔Capital programming - ✔✔An integrated process within an agency for planning,
budgeting, procurement and management of the agency's portfolio of capital assets to
achieve agency strategic goals and objectives with the lowest lifecycle cost and least
risk
✔✔Effective Competition - ✔✔-A market condition that exists when 2 or more
responsible offerors acting independently contend for a contract that results in the buyer
receiving either:
-the lowest price/cost alternative or
-the optimal combination of technical design coupled with cost-effective price
✔✔tradeoff process - ✔✔-In a negotiated acquisition, a procedure that permits
consideration of tradeoffs among cost or price and non-cost factors and allows the
government to accept other than the lowest-price proposal
-The perceived benefits of the higher priced proposal must merit the additional
cost, and the rationale for tradeoffs must be documented in the contract file
✔✔Four P's of Marketing - ✔✔Product
Price
Place
Promotion
