CGFM Test 1 UPDATED Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
special purpose district - CORRECT ANSWER - A conservation authority is established in a
state to focus solely on swamp conservation efforts; the authority has the power to levy taxes.
This is an example of which type of government?
county executive officer - CORRECT ANSWER - If a citizen complains about trash in a
county park, the responsibility for addressing the complaint resides with the
ordinance - CORRECT ANSWER - a law or regulation
jointly-governed organization - CORRECT ANSWER - a commission that manages water and
sewer services for several counties is an example of a
limit government spending - CORRECT ANSWER - the legislative branch of the US
government has the ability to
tribes have limited sovereignty - CORRECT ANSWER - With regard to lands held by Native
American tribal governments, the US constitution and subsequent Supreme Court decisions
affirm that
legislative earmark - CORRECT ANSWER - What is intended to provide a specific benefit to
the constituency of a particular elected official
congressional appropriations bill - CORRECT ANSWER - From the perspective of the
federal government, legislative earmarking is a provision inserted into a discretionary spending
by the
continuing resolution - CORRECT ANSWER - If an appropriation law for the budget year is
not enacted before the start of the fiscal year, congress may pass a
, gfoa - CORRECT ANSWER - Which organization publishes a guide to best practices in
budgeting?
appropriation - CORRECT ANSWER - Time constraints for an agency's spending are
imposed by which budgetary control?
earmarks - CORRECT ANSWER - Language that members of congress insert into bills or
conference reports, usually near the end of the legislative process, to fund specific projects
appropriation - CORRECT ANSWER - The legal authority to incur expenses and expend
money is an
apportionment - CORRECT ANSWER - dispersal of budgetary authority to an agency or
program by the central management agency - the OMB - to support approved programs
allotment - CORRECT ANSWER - budgetary authority given to specific components within
an agency
amount, time period, and purpose - CORRECT ANSWER - Which limits are used in
appropriations laws to control federal spending?
OMB apportions - CORRECT ANSWER - How does the executive branch of the federal
government control spending
programming - CORRECT ANSWER - In which phase of government is a task force created
to carry out a specific purpose?
extrapolation - CORRECT ANSWER - forecasting technique that assumes certain trends will
continue and, based on that assumption, enables charting of future results
and CORRECT Answers
special purpose district - CORRECT ANSWER - A conservation authority is established in a
state to focus solely on swamp conservation efforts; the authority has the power to levy taxes.
This is an example of which type of government?
county executive officer - CORRECT ANSWER - If a citizen complains about trash in a
county park, the responsibility for addressing the complaint resides with the
ordinance - CORRECT ANSWER - a law or regulation
jointly-governed organization - CORRECT ANSWER - a commission that manages water and
sewer services for several counties is an example of a
limit government spending - CORRECT ANSWER - the legislative branch of the US
government has the ability to
tribes have limited sovereignty - CORRECT ANSWER - With regard to lands held by Native
American tribal governments, the US constitution and subsequent Supreme Court decisions
affirm that
legislative earmark - CORRECT ANSWER - What is intended to provide a specific benefit to
the constituency of a particular elected official
congressional appropriations bill - CORRECT ANSWER - From the perspective of the
federal government, legislative earmarking is a provision inserted into a discretionary spending
by the
continuing resolution - CORRECT ANSWER - If an appropriation law for the budget year is
not enacted before the start of the fiscal year, congress may pass a
, gfoa - CORRECT ANSWER - Which organization publishes a guide to best practices in
budgeting?
appropriation - CORRECT ANSWER - Time constraints for an agency's spending are
imposed by which budgetary control?
earmarks - CORRECT ANSWER - Language that members of congress insert into bills or
conference reports, usually near the end of the legislative process, to fund specific projects
appropriation - CORRECT ANSWER - The legal authority to incur expenses and expend
money is an
apportionment - CORRECT ANSWER - dispersal of budgetary authority to an agency or
program by the central management agency - the OMB - to support approved programs
allotment - CORRECT ANSWER - budgetary authority given to specific components within
an agency
amount, time period, and purpose - CORRECT ANSWER - Which limits are used in
appropriations laws to control federal spending?
OMB apportions - CORRECT ANSWER - How does the executive branch of the federal
government control spending
programming - CORRECT ANSWER - In which phase of government is a task force created
to carry out a specific purpose?
extrapolation - CORRECT ANSWER - forecasting technique that assumes certain trends will
continue and, based on that assumption, enables charting of future results
