AIPM 2 exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
What is ESOH? - --Answer --Environmental, Safety, and Occupational
Health
DOT&E - --Answer --Sets policy and operational and live fire testing
Early Operational Assessment (EOA) - --Answer --Performed on
prototypes to help decision makers assess the proposed concepts.
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) - --Answer --conducted
on production or production representative articles to support a Full Rate
Production decision review
Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) - --Answer --
Conducted after the system is in production and may continue throughout the
lifecycle.
Joint Interoperability certifications - --Answer --mandatory for all programs
with relevant data change capability
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,Exectuion Review - --Answer --to make assessments of current and previous
resource allocations to determine if the planned performance goals were met
USD (Comptroller) - --Answer --responsible for budgeting in the PPBE
budgeting phase
Budget Estimate Submission (BES) - --Answer --primary product of
budgeting phase in the PPBE
Reclamas - --Answer --clearly and succinctly state the program's position in
an attempt to either avoid or minimize the effects of proposed budget cuts
5 major defense programs - --Answer --RDT&E
Procurement
O&M
Milpers
Milcon
3 decision making support systems - --Answer --JCIDS
Defense Acquisition System
PPBE process
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,Key action officer at Pentagon for Budgeting - --Answer --Dept of Army
Systems Coordinator (DASC)
Phases of PPBE - --Answer --Planning
Programming
Budgeting
Execution Review
CAPE (Director, Cost Analysis & Program Evaluation) - --Answer --
manages programming activities within programming phase of PPBE
What phase are the primary products the Program Objectives Memorandum
(POM) and the Program Decision Memorandum (PDM)? - --Answer --
PPBE Programming Phase
Funding policies - --Answer --Incremental Funding
Full Funding
Annual Funding
Budget Resolutions - --Answer --are not laws; they are passed by both
Houses of Congress, but do not require signature of the President.
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, set spending ceilings for each major government function
Authorizations Bill - --Answer --Provides permission for a Federal program
or activity to begin or continue from year to year.
Sets staffing levels and system quantities, as well as limits on program funds.
Does not grant funding.
Must be signed by the President to become law.
Appropriations Bill - --Answer --an act of Congress that provides budget
authority and permits Federal agencies to incur obligations and make payments
from the U.S. Treasury.
Appropriations represent limitations on amounts that agencies may obligate during
a specific timeframe
Program Manager - --Answer --responsible for bringing the program in on
time and within budget
Contracting Officer - --Answer --responsible for advising the PM and
ensuring that all acquisition laws and regulations are followed
TEMP (Testing Evaluation Master Plan) - --Answer --basic planning
document for all life cycle T&E that are related to a particular Acq system
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Answers
What is ESOH? - --Answer --Environmental, Safety, and Occupational
Health
DOT&E - --Answer --Sets policy and operational and live fire testing
Early Operational Assessment (EOA) - --Answer --Performed on
prototypes to help decision makers assess the proposed concepts.
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) - --Answer --conducted
on production or production representative articles to support a Full Rate
Production decision review
Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) - --Answer --
Conducted after the system is in production and may continue throughout the
lifecycle.
Joint Interoperability certifications - --Answer --mandatory for all programs
with relevant data change capability
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,Exectuion Review - --Answer --to make assessments of current and previous
resource allocations to determine if the planned performance goals were met
USD (Comptroller) - --Answer --responsible for budgeting in the PPBE
budgeting phase
Budget Estimate Submission (BES) - --Answer --primary product of
budgeting phase in the PPBE
Reclamas - --Answer --clearly and succinctly state the program's position in
an attempt to either avoid or minimize the effects of proposed budget cuts
5 major defense programs - --Answer --RDT&E
Procurement
O&M
Milpers
Milcon
3 decision making support systems - --Answer --JCIDS
Defense Acquisition System
PPBE process
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,Key action officer at Pentagon for Budgeting - --Answer --Dept of Army
Systems Coordinator (DASC)
Phases of PPBE - --Answer --Planning
Programming
Budgeting
Execution Review
CAPE (Director, Cost Analysis & Program Evaluation) - --Answer --
manages programming activities within programming phase of PPBE
What phase are the primary products the Program Objectives Memorandum
(POM) and the Program Decision Memorandum (PDM)? - --Answer --
PPBE Programming Phase
Funding policies - --Answer --Incremental Funding
Full Funding
Annual Funding
Budget Resolutions - --Answer --are not laws; they are passed by both
Houses of Congress, but do not require signature of the President.
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, set spending ceilings for each major government function
Authorizations Bill - --Answer --Provides permission for a Federal program
or activity to begin or continue from year to year.
Sets staffing levels and system quantities, as well as limits on program funds.
Does not grant funding.
Must be signed by the President to become law.
Appropriations Bill - --Answer --an act of Congress that provides budget
authority and permits Federal agencies to incur obligations and make payments
from the U.S. Treasury.
Appropriations represent limitations on amounts that agencies may obligate during
a specific timeframe
Program Manager - --Answer --responsible for bringing the program in on
time and within budget
Contracting Officer - --Answer --responsible for advising the PM and
ensuring that all acquisition laws and regulations are followed
TEMP (Testing Evaluation Master Plan) - --Answer --basic planning
document for all life cycle T&E that are related to a particular Acq system
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