AAPC PM Exam 2 14AUG17 comprehensive Questions
and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What is the purpose of Test & Evaluation (T&E)?
Correct Answer: The purpose of test & evaluation (T&E) in a defense system's
development and acquisition program is to *help reduce or manage risks* in
development, acquisition, and utilization
Question 2.
Who are the customers of Test & Evaluation (T&E)?
Correct Answer: -Developers / Acquisition Managers -Designers and Engineers
-End-Users
Question 3.
What are the various test agencies?
Correct Answer: -Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) -Army Test and
Evaluation Command (ATEC) -Army Evaluation Center (AEC) -Operational Test
Command (OTC)
Question 4.
What kind of environment are developmental teswts conducted in?
Correct Answer: Developmental tests are conducted in a *controlled environment*
Question 5.
What does Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) estimate?
Correct Answer: Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) estimates system
Operational Effectiveness (OE) and Operational *Suitability* (OS)
Question 6.
Define interoperability.
Correct Answer: Interoperability is the ability of systems, units, or forces to provide
data, information, materiel, and services to and accept the same from other systems,
units, or forces and to use the data, information, materiel, and services so exchanged
to enable them to operate effectively together
,Question 7.
What is the Test Integration Working Group (TIWG)?
Correct Answer: cross-functional integrated product team (IPT) that integrates test
requirements through coordination between materiel developer, combat
developer/requirements manager, logistician, and developmental and operational
testers to minimize development time and cost; produces TEMP
Question 8.
What does AR 73-1 cover?
Correct Answer: Test & Evaluation Policy
Question 9.
What are the types of DT&E (Developmental Testing & Evaluation)?
Correct Answer: Research Effort/Test, Technical Feasibility Test (TFT), Engineering
Development Test (EDT), Production Qualification Test (PQT), Production Verification
Test (PVT), First Article Test (FAT), Production Acceptation Test & Evaluation
(PAT&E)
Question 10.
What are the types of OT&E (Operational Testing & Evaluation)?
Correct Answer: Early Operational Assessment (EOA)/Early User Test (EUT),
Operational Assessment (OA)/Limited User Test (LUT), Initial Operational Test &
Evaluation (IOT&E)/Initial Operational Test (IOT), Follow-on Operational Test &
Evaluation (FOT&E)/Follow-on Operational Test (FOT)/User Acceptance Test (UAT),
Force Development Test or Experimentation (FDT/E), Live Fire Testing (LFT),
Customer Test (CT)
Question 11.
Define test and evaluation
Correct Answer: Testing: program, procedure or process to obtain, verify, or provide
data to determine the degree to which a system or systems meet, exceed or fail to
meet stated objectives; Evaluation: *Independent* process to review, analyze, and
assess data obtained from testing or other sources
Question 12.
Define operational effectiveness
Correct Answer: Measure of the overall ability of a system to accomplish a mission
when used by representative personnel in the environment planned or expected for
operational employment of the system considering organization, doctrine, tactics,
supportability, survivability, vulnerability, and threat.
, Question 13.
Define operational suitability
Correct Answer: The degree to which a system can be placed and sustained
satisfactorily in field use with consideration being given to availability, compatibility,
transportability, interoperability, reliability, wartime usage rates, maintainability,
safety, human factors, habitability, manpower, logistics supportability, natural
environmental effects and impacts, documentation, and training requirements.
Question 14.
What is the purpose of Live Fire Testing and when does it apply?
Correct Answer: -Determines crew survivability and/or system vulnerability -Confirms
lethality of munitions/missiles against intended target set -Mandated by FY87 Defense
Authorization Bill -Applies to all ACAT I and II major vehicles and weapons platforms,
conventional weapons that provide some degree of protection, Major munitions
greater than 1M rounds
Question 15.
What is the purpose of JITC (Joint Interoperability Test Command)?
Correct Answer: To reduce risk by certifying joint and combined interoperability of all
DoD IT/IS
Question 16.
Recognize the importance of T&E to each milestone decision.
Correct Answer: -Before Milestone A: Approved T&E Strategy -Before Milestone B:
Approved TEMP; DT&E Report; Identification of LRIP quantities (10% max without
waiver) -Before Milestone C: Updated TEMP; Final DT&E Report; Operational
Assessment -FRPDR (Full rate production decision review): Approved TEMP; Beyond
LRIP Report; Live Fire T&E Report; IOT&E Report; Interoperability Certification
Question 17.
Why do independent agencies conduct and oversee OT&E?
Correct Answer: Because they don't have a vested interest in seeing a program either
succeed or fail (unlike contractor or PM); they are objective
Question 18.
what is an essential feedback mechanism for the Systems Engineering Process.
Correct Answer: T&E planning
and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
What is the purpose of Test & Evaluation (T&E)?
Correct Answer: The purpose of test & evaluation (T&E) in a defense system's
development and acquisition program is to *help reduce or manage risks* in
development, acquisition, and utilization
Question 2.
Who are the customers of Test & Evaluation (T&E)?
Correct Answer: -Developers / Acquisition Managers -Designers and Engineers
-End-Users
Question 3.
What are the various test agencies?
Correct Answer: -Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) -Army Test and
Evaluation Command (ATEC) -Army Evaluation Center (AEC) -Operational Test
Command (OTC)
Question 4.
What kind of environment are developmental teswts conducted in?
Correct Answer: Developmental tests are conducted in a *controlled environment*
Question 5.
What does Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) estimate?
Correct Answer: Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) estimates system
Operational Effectiveness (OE) and Operational *Suitability* (OS)
Question 6.
Define interoperability.
Correct Answer: Interoperability is the ability of systems, units, or forces to provide
data, information, materiel, and services to and accept the same from other systems,
units, or forces and to use the data, information, materiel, and services so exchanged
to enable them to operate effectively together
,Question 7.
What is the Test Integration Working Group (TIWG)?
Correct Answer: cross-functional integrated product team (IPT) that integrates test
requirements through coordination between materiel developer, combat
developer/requirements manager, logistician, and developmental and operational
testers to minimize development time and cost; produces TEMP
Question 8.
What does AR 73-1 cover?
Correct Answer: Test & Evaluation Policy
Question 9.
What are the types of DT&E (Developmental Testing & Evaluation)?
Correct Answer: Research Effort/Test, Technical Feasibility Test (TFT), Engineering
Development Test (EDT), Production Qualification Test (PQT), Production Verification
Test (PVT), First Article Test (FAT), Production Acceptation Test & Evaluation
(PAT&E)
Question 10.
What are the types of OT&E (Operational Testing & Evaluation)?
Correct Answer: Early Operational Assessment (EOA)/Early User Test (EUT),
Operational Assessment (OA)/Limited User Test (LUT), Initial Operational Test &
Evaluation (IOT&E)/Initial Operational Test (IOT), Follow-on Operational Test &
Evaluation (FOT&E)/Follow-on Operational Test (FOT)/User Acceptance Test (UAT),
Force Development Test or Experimentation (FDT/E), Live Fire Testing (LFT),
Customer Test (CT)
Question 11.
Define test and evaluation
Correct Answer: Testing: program, procedure or process to obtain, verify, or provide
data to determine the degree to which a system or systems meet, exceed or fail to
meet stated objectives; Evaluation: *Independent* process to review, analyze, and
assess data obtained from testing or other sources
Question 12.
Define operational effectiveness
Correct Answer: Measure of the overall ability of a system to accomplish a mission
when used by representative personnel in the environment planned or expected for
operational employment of the system considering organization, doctrine, tactics,
supportability, survivability, vulnerability, and threat.
, Question 13.
Define operational suitability
Correct Answer: The degree to which a system can be placed and sustained
satisfactorily in field use with consideration being given to availability, compatibility,
transportability, interoperability, reliability, wartime usage rates, maintainability,
safety, human factors, habitability, manpower, logistics supportability, natural
environmental effects and impacts, documentation, and training requirements.
Question 14.
What is the purpose of Live Fire Testing and when does it apply?
Correct Answer: -Determines crew survivability and/or system vulnerability -Confirms
lethality of munitions/missiles against intended target set -Mandated by FY87 Defense
Authorization Bill -Applies to all ACAT I and II major vehicles and weapons platforms,
conventional weapons that provide some degree of protection, Major munitions
greater than 1M rounds
Question 15.
What is the purpose of JITC (Joint Interoperability Test Command)?
Correct Answer: To reduce risk by certifying joint and combined interoperability of all
DoD IT/IS
Question 16.
Recognize the importance of T&E to each milestone decision.
Correct Answer: -Before Milestone A: Approved T&E Strategy -Before Milestone B:
Approved TEMP; DT&E Report; Identification of LRIP quantities (10% max without
waiver) -Before Milestone C: Updated TEMP; Final DT&E Report; Operational
Assessment -FRPDR (Full rate production decision review): Approved TEMP; Beyond
LRIP Report; Live Fire T&E Report; IOT&E Report; Interoperability Certification
Question 17.
Why do independent agencies conduct and oversee OT&E?
Correct Answer: Because they don't have a vested interest in seeing a program either
succeed or fail (unlike contractor or PM); they are objective
Question 18.
what is an essential feedback mechanism for the Systems Engineering Process.
Correct Answer: T&E planning
