AG BOLC CORE EXAM TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔AMOS - ✔✔Additional MOS
MOS in addition to PMOS and SMOS
✔✔DMOS - ✔✔Duty MOS
MOS that identifies authorized manning table positions to which a Soldier is assigned
✔✔SQI Code - ✔✔Special Qualification Identifier Code
Authorized with any MOS
✔✔ASI - ✔✔Additional Skill Identifier
Authorized for use only with designated MOS.
Specialized skills, qualifications and requirements closely related to or in addition to a
particular MOS
✔✔LIC - ✔✔Language Identifier Code
Authorized with any MOS
Identifies Soldier's foreign language qualifications
✔✔Order of MOSC structure - ✔✔MOS (First three)
Skill Lever (One number)
SQI (One letter/number)
ASI (One letter and one number)
LIC (Two Letters)
✔✔Reclassification for SSG (Promotable) and above - ✔✔Must be approved by
Commander, Human Resources Command (HRC)
✔✔SMOS Guidelines - ✔✔Only allowed when PMOS not available.
Some MOSs need HRC approval to be SMOS
Must have MOS training
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
1st Priority - ✔✔PMOS/CPMOS
2 up, 1 down
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
,2nd Priority - ✔✔SMOS
1 up
Not to exceed 12 months
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
3rd priority - ✔✔AMOS
1 up
Not to exceed 12 months
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
4th Priority - ✔✔MOS Substitution
Not to exceed 12 months
1 up
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
5th Priority - ✔✔Report as Immediately Available
(surplus)
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
6th Priority - ✔✔Urgent Military Requirements
Special Duty Assignments (e.g. Borrowed Military Manpower)
Limited to 90 days
✔✔What identifies duty positions that require closely related skills and
broadly identifies types of skill without regard to skill level?
a. Career Management Field (CMF)
b. Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)
c. Military Occupational Specialty Code (MOSC)
d. Primary Military Occupational Specialty (PMOS) - ✔✔B
✔✔What one character code is used with the MOS and SL to form the basic
five character MOSC?
a. Additional Skill Identifier (ASI)
b. Language Identifier Code (LIC)
c. Special Qualification Identifier (SQI)
d. Language Qualification Identifier (LQI) - ✔✔C
✔✔Who is the approval authority for the reclassification of a SSG(P)?
a. BN Cdr
b. BDE Cdr
c. First General Officer in Chain of Command
d. Commander, Human Resources Command - ✔✔D
✔✔ACMG - ✔✔Active Component Manning Guide
, ✔✔3 Manning Categories - ✔✔Urgent Forces (max 100, min 90)
Rotational Units (95%)
Essential Forces (80-90%)
✔✔Enlisted Assignment System Primary Goal - ✔✔Satisfy the personnel requirements
of the Army
✔✔EDTM - ✔✔Enlisted Distribution Target Model
Software program that creates enlisted distribution targets by MOS, grade, and UIC.
EDAS view capability (CM+4 through CM+12).
✔✔EDAS - ✔✔Enlisted Distribution and Assignment System
EDAS is a real-time, interactive, automated system which supports the management of
the enlisted force. Assignment and distribution managers in HRC-Alexandria use EDAS
to create requisitions and process assignments, to create and validate requisitions, and
to add or modify requisitions.
Provides enlisted strength management information to field commands.
✔✔Requisition Process - ✔✔Monthly
Lead times subject to change based on priorities
(CM+4 to CM +12)
Allocations
✔✔Requisition Validation Tool - ✔✔New process/system to produce and validate
requisitions. Authorizations/priorities, Current strength, Known gains and losses
BRIGADE LEVEL
✔✔CMIF - ✔✔Career Management Individual File
Maintained by Career Management Branches at HRC for grades SSG through SGM;
may be maintained for SGT and below depending on MOS
✔✔AI - ✔✔Assignment Instructions
Instructions to the soldier on their reassignment
✔✔Who does HRC assign directly to? - ✔✔BDE (DMSL)
✔✔The Army Manning Guidance is necessary for which of the following reasons?
GRADED A+
✔✔AMOS - ✔✔Additional MOS
MOS in addition to PMOS and SMOS
✔✔DMOS - ✔✔Duty MOS
MOS that identifies authorized manning table positions to which a Soldier is assigned
✔✔SQI Code - ✔✔Special Qualification Identifier Code
Authorized with any MOS
✔✔ASI - ✔✔Additional Skill Identifier
Authorized for use only with designated MOS.
Specialized skills, qualifications and requirements closely related to or in addition to a
particular MOS
✔✔LIC - ✔✔Language Identifier Code
Authorized with any MOS
Identifies Soldier's foreign language qualifications
✔✔Order of MOSC structure - ✔✔MOS (First three)
Skill Lever (One number)
SQI (One letter/number)
ASI (One letter and one number)
LIC (Two Letters)
✔✔Reclassification for SSG (Promotable) and above - ✔✔Must be approved by
Commander, Human Resources Command (HRC)
✔✔SMOS Guidelines - ✔✔Only allowed when PMOS not available.
Some MOSs need HRC approval to be SMOS
Must have MOS training
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
1st Priority - ✔✔PMOS/CPMOS
2 up, 1 down
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
,2nd Priority - ✔✔SMOS
1 up
Not to exceed 12 months
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
3rd priority - ✔✔AMOS
1 up
Not to exceed 12 months
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
4th Priority - ✔✔MOS Substitution
Not to exceed 12 months
1 up
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
5th Priority - ✔✔Report as Immediately Available
(surplus)
✔✔Commander's Utilization Priorities
6th Priority - ✔✔Urgent Military Requirements
Special Duty Assignments (e.g. Borrowed Military Manpower)
Limited to 90 days
✔✔What identifies duty positions that require closely related skills and
broadly identifies types of skill without regard to skill level?
a. Career Management Field (CMF)
b. Military Occupational Specialty (MOS)
c. Military Occupational Specialty Code (MOSC)
d. Primary Military Occupational Specialty (PMOS) - ✔✔B
✔✔What one character code is used with the MOS and SL to form the basic
five character MOSC?
a. Additional Skill Identifier (ASI)
b. Language Identifier Code (LIC)
c. Special Qualification Identifier (SQI)
d. Language Qualification Identifier (LQI) - ✔✔C
✔✔Who is the approval authority for the reclassification of a SSG(P)?
a. BN Cdr
b. BDE Cdr
c. First General Officer in Chain of Command
d. Commander, Human Resources Command - ✔✔D
✔✔ACMG - ✔✔Active Component Manning Guide
, ✔✔3 Manning Categories - ✔✔Urgent Forces (max 100, min 90)
Rotational Units (95%)
Essential Forces (80-90%)
✔✔Enlisted Assignment System Primary Goal - ✔✔Satisfy the personnel requirements
of the Army
✔✔EDTM - ✔✔Enlisted Distribution Target Model
Software program that creates enlisted distribution targets by MOS, grade, and UIC.
EDAS view capability (CM+4 through CM+12).
✔✔EDAS - ✔✔Enlisted Distribution and Assignment System
EDAS is a real-time, interactive, automated system which supports the management of
the enlisted force. Assignment and distribution managers in HRC-Alexandria use EDAS
to create requisitions and process assignments, to create and validate requisitions, and
to add or modify requisitions.
Provides enlisted strength management information to field commands.
✔✔Requisition Process - ✔✔Monthly
Lead times subject to change based on priorities
(CM+4 to CM +12)
Allocations
✔✔Requisition Validation Tool - ✔✔New process/system to produce and validate
requisitions. Authorizations/priorities, Current strength, Known gains and losses
BRIGADE LEVEL
✔✔CMIF - ✔✔Career Management Individual File
Maintained by Career Management Branches at HRC for grades SSG through SGM;
may be maintained for SGT and below depending on MOS
✔✔AI - ✔✔Assignment Instructions
Instructions to the soldier on their reassignment
✔✔Who does HRC assign directly to? - ✔✔BDE (DMSL)
✔✔The Army Manning Guidance is necessary for which of the following reasons?
