ECCC GE Exam question with answers
USACE Response Options - -Forward Engineer Support Team-Advance (FEST-A) or
Reconnaissance Team (RT)
Advanced Echelon (ADVON) team
Contingency Engineer District (CED)
-Reconnaissance Tasks - -Technical Reconnaissance (**General Engineers)
Infrastructure Survey
Environment Assessment
Airfield Assessment
Route Classification
Tactical Reconnaissance (**Combat Engineers)
Bridge Reconnaissance
Route Reconnaissance
Obstacle Reconnaissance
-Reconnaissance vs. Classification - -Classification is done by General Engineers
Reconnaissance is done by Combat Engineers
-SWEAT-MSO - -Sewage
Water
Electricity
Academics
Trash
Medical
Safety
Other Considerations
-MDMP and Construction Planning - -MDMP nests within construction planning and
EN requirements for sustainment
-Project Origin/Routing - -Unit requests on a DA4283
Go to DPW for approval
Create list for troop construction requests
S3 syncs with DPW for project
Projects are picked and project packet are given; scope of work, site plan, and
drawings
S3C produces construction directive, BOM, and Construct Activities
Project assigned to executing company
-Definable Features of Work - -project supervisor identifies features of work during
estimating and scheduling process. "Task which is sperate and distinct from other
tasks, has separate control requirements, and may be identified by different trades
or disciplines, or it may be work by the same trade in a different environment"
-For each definable feature of work - -Prep Phase: apply network analysis,
scheduling, estimating
Initial Phase: Choosing configuration, materials, equipment
, Follow Up Phase: adherence to standard procedures
Completion Phase: (in doctrine - rework phase)
-Quality Management (QM) - -consists of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
activities instituted to achieve the quality levels established by project plans and
specifications or as directed quality established by the contract requirements
-Quality Control (QC) - -engineering unit's system in place during execution to
manage, control, and document the unit's activities in compliance with the project
plans and specifications requirements
-Unit QC Plan - -unit QC manager and assigned QC specialists perform and direct
activities to execute unit level QC program
-Project QC Plan - -- project managers and project supervisors perform and direct
activities to develop individual project QC plan
-Quality Assurance (QA) - -planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary
to provide confidence that adequate technical requirements are established, that
products and services conform to those requirements, and satisfactory performance
is achieved
-Types of construction - -Permanent, Semi-permanent, Temporary
-Permanent - -Life expectancy greater than 25 years
Low maintenance cost
Only executed by USACE
-Semi-permanent - -Life expectancy between 5-25 years
Only executed by USACE
Troop construction may be used
-Temporary - -Life expectancy less than 5 years
Can be easily removed
Typical troop construction
-Laws - -Misappropriation Act - Don't use the wrong color of money or money
allocated to other projects
Anti Deficiency Act - Don't spend money you don't have
Don't split projects to get below the funding thresholds
-Current working estimates - -Latest and most accurate cost estimate
Continuously updated throughout the project to reflect real and projected costs
Includes all cost associated with project
Used to analyze costs and control design decisions to keep the project within the
approved funds and scope
USACE Response Options - -Forward Engineer Support Team-Advance (FEST-A) or
Reconnaissance Team (RT)
Advanced Echelon (ADVON) team
Contingency Engineer District (CED)
-Reconnaissance Tasks - -Technical Reconnaissance (**General Engineers)
Infrastructure Survey
Environment Assessment
Airfield Assessment
Route Classification
Tactical Reconnaissance (**Combat Engineers)
Bridge Reconnaissance
Route Reconnaissance
Obstacle Reconnaissance
-Reconnaissance vs. Classification - -Classification is done by General Engineers
Reconnaissance is done by Combat Engineers
-SWEAT-MSO - -Sewage
Water
Electricity
Academics
Trash
Medical
Safety
Other Considerations
-MDMP and Construction Planning - -MDMP nests within construction planning and
EN requirements for sustainment
-Project Origin/Routing - -Unit requests on a DA4283
Go to DPW for approval
Create list for troop construction requests
S3 syncs with DPW for project
Projects are picked and project packet are given; scope of work, site plan, and
drawings
S3C produces construction directive, BOM, and Construct Activities
Project assigned to executing company
-Definable Features of Work - -project supervisor identifies features of work during
estimating and scheduling process. "Task which is sperate and distinct from other
tasks, has separate control requirements, and may be identified by different trades
or disciplines, or it may be work by the same trade in a different environment"
-For each definable feature of work - -Prep Phase: apply network analysis,
scheduling, estimating
Initial Phase: Choosing configuration, materials, equipment
, Follow Up Phase: adherence to standard procedures
Completion Phase: (in doctrine - rework phase)
-Quality Management (QM) - -consists of Quality Assurance and Quality Control
activities instituted to achieve the quality levels established by project plans and
specifications or as directed quality established by the contract requirements
-Quality Control (QC) - -engineering unit's system in place during execution to
manage, control, and document the unit's activities in compliance with the project
plans and specifications requirements
-Unit QC Plan - -unit QC manager and assigned QC specialists perform and direct
activities to execute unit level QC program
-Project QC Plan - -- project managers and project supervisors perform and direct
activities to develop individual project QC plan
-Quality Assurance (QA) - -planned and systematic pattern of all actions necessary
to provide confidence that adequate technical requirements are established, that
products and services conform to those requirements, and satisfactory performance
is achieved
-Types of construction - -Permanent, Semi-permanent, Temporary
-Permanent - -Life expectancy greater than 25 years
Low maintenance cost
Only executed by USACE
-Semi-permanent - -Life expectancy between 5-25 years
Only executed by USACE
Troop construction may be used
-Temporary - -Life expectancy less than 5 years
Can be easily removed
Typical troop construction
-Laws - -Misappropriation Act - Don't use the wrong color of money or money
allocated to other projects
Anti Deficiency Act - Don't spend money you don't have
Don't split projects to get below the funding thresholds
-Current working estimates - -Latest and most accurate cost estimate
Continuously updated throughout the project to reflect real and projected costs
Includes all cost associated with project
Used to analyze costs and control design decisions to keep the project within the
approved funds and scope
