1
CDFM Module 2 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
What are the OSD Decision Making Forums? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3 star program
review
Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG)
Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member
of the Armed Services - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization
Act 1986
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔The Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for
accomplishing the assigned military mission? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔President and
Secretary of Defense
1
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,2
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials
and/or organizations? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔President, National Security Council,
Secretary of Defense
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔President
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of
the Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Planning,
Programming, Budget
What is the name of the process used by the DoD to determine the dollar amounts
for programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the Presidents Budget - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔PPBE (planning, programming, Budget, execution)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of
the PPBE process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing
programming guidance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Director, Cost Assessment and
Program evaluation D,CAPE
2
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,3
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to
the SECDEF for budget and financial matters? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Under Secretary
of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as
the Chairman of what Board - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
Assume todays date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new
project or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY 2021. What is the
first PPBE related document in which you could identify resources for that
requirement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔POM 2017 - 2021
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Defense Planning Guidance (DPG)
What is the title of the document prepared by the D,CAPE and USD(C) in the May
to June time frame that provides guidance to Components for preparation of their
POM and BES submissions? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Integrated Program/Budget Review
Guidance
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources,
and equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
3
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, 4
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are
translated into requested resources in an appropriations format - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Budgeting (Budget Development)
What is the name of the document prepare by the Joint Staff after its review of
POMs submitted by the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and
capabilities contained in those POMs? (This document provides SECDEF with the
JCS evaluation of the Military Departments submissions) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct
a review of Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been
resolved. Resolution of these issues may displace other programs within the fixed
DoD topline. What is the name of this review? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Issue Resolution
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and a potential budget
hearing in the fall timeframe the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft
document that is submitted to the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF for a decision. Once
signed by one of those senior officials , what is the document called? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Resource Management Decision
4
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CDFM Module 2 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Corresponding Answers
with Surety of 100% Pass Mark
What are the OSD Decision Making Forums? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔3 star program
review
Deputy Management Action Group (DMAG)
Secretary of Defense Large & Small Groups
What law identifies the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff as senior ranking member
of the Armed Services - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Goldwater Nichols DoD Reorganization
Act 1986
The military operational chain of command runs from the President to whom - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔The Secretary of Defense to the Combatent Commanders
The Commanders of the Combatant Commands are responsible to whom for
accomplishing the assigned military mission? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔President and
Secretary of Defense
1
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,2
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the principal advisor to which officials
and/or organizations? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔President, National Security Council,
Secretary of Defense
Who serves as Chairman of the National Security Council - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔President
Name the three major phases of the PPBE process that result in the DoD portion of
the Presidents Budget that is submitted to Congress - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Planning,
Programming, Budget
What is the name of the process used by the DoD to determine the dollar amounts
for programs to be submitted to Congress as part of the Presidents Budget - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔PPBE (planning, programming, Budget, execution)
What is the title of the senior OSD official responsible for the planning phase of
the PPBE process - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Under Secretary of Defense (Policy)
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is responsible for issuing
programming guidance? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Director, Cost Assessment and
Program evaluation D,CAPE
2
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,3
What is the title of the senior OSD official who is principal advisor and assistent to
the SECDEF for budget and financial matters? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Under Secretary
of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer
The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) serves as
the Chairman of what Board - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Defense Acquisition Board (DAB)
Assume todays date is 1 March 2014 and your organization knows about a new
project or requirement that will require its initial funding in FY 2021. What is the
first PPBE related document in which you could identify resources for that
requirement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔POM 2017 - 2021
What is the title of the final document of the planning phase? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Defense Planning Guidance (DPG)
What is the title of the document prepared by the D,CAPE and USD(C) in the May
to June time frame that provides guidance to Components for preparation of their
POM and BES submissions? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Integrated Program/Budget Review
Guidance
What is the name of the automated database that summarizes all forces, resources,
and equipment associated with programs approved by the Secretary of Defense? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Future Years Defense Program (FYDP)
3
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, 4
What is the phase of the PPBE process in which programmatic decisions are
translated into requested resources in an appropriations format - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Budgeting (Budget Development)
What is the name of the document prepare by the Joint Staff after its review of
POMs submitted by the Military Departments that focuses on the balance and
capabilities contained in those POMs? (This document provides SECDEF with the
JCS evaluation of the Military Departments submissions) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Chairman's Program Assessment (CPA) {Chairman, JCS}
Near the end of the budget review process the SECDEF and DEPSEC may conduct
a review of Component major policy or budget issues that have not yet been
resolved. Resolution of these issues may displace other programs within the fixed
DoD topline. What is the name of this review? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Issue Resolution
Following a review of a Component's budget submission and a potential budget
hearing in the fall timeframe the reviewing USD(C) budget analyst prepares a draft
document that is submitted to the DEPSECDEF or SECDEF for a decision. Once
signed by one of those senior officials , what is the document called? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Resource Management Decision
4
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
