DAU - PM Practitioner EXAM PREP questions with
accurate answers
__________ solutions are documented in the DOTMLPF-P Change
Recommendation (DCR). Ans✓✓✓ Non-materiel
_______________ consist(s) of a set of process elements, or "tools,"
used to provide balance and manage the execution of the system
engineering process. Ans✓✓✓ Technical Management Processes
_____________Guards against improper information modification or
destruction. Ans✓✓✓ Integrity
A "not invented here" mentality is considered: Ans✓✓✓ A barrier to
IPPD implementation
A member of the program team wants to take control and delegate tasks,
even when they are not in a supervisory role, to position themselves for
promotion. These actions represent a need for power based on which
motivational theory? Ans✓✓✓ McClelland's Three-factor Theory
A program office for a command and control system needs to prepare a
Statement of Work (SOW) that lays out the products to be delivered and
the technical reviews to be held by the contractor. Which tool would
they most likely use? Ans✓✓✓ Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
,A software costing method that uses a team of experts working both
independently and together to combine different approaches and arrive
at a collective judgment through consensus is an example of the
_________ costing method. Ans✓✓✓ Delphi
A software-costing model that bases cost estimates upon statistical data
such as source lines of code is an example of a ________costing model
Ans✓✓✓ Parametric
A strategy that adopts interface standards that are defined by and widely
used throughout industry to facilitate the update of components with
new technology is ___________________. Ans✓✓✓ open systems
A system prototype that is demonstrated in an operational environment
describes which one of the Technology Readiness Levels listed below?
Ans✓✓✓ TRL 7
Affordability is most concerned with: Ans✓✓✓ Making tradeoffs in
performance and schedule to achieve cost objectives within affordability
constraints.
After Congress passes the DoD Appropriations Bill and the President
signs it, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) distributes the
Budget Authority to the DoD. What is this distribution called?
Ans✓✓✓ Apportionment
, All of the following are true of Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)
actions, EXCEPT ___________. Ans✓✓✓ Changes to the
appropriation category
As a general rule of thumb, what percent of the total ownership costs of
a mass-produced system occur late in the life cycle, due to costs
associated with operations and support? Ans✓✓✓ 65-80%
As part of the DoD-recommended Test and Evaluation Master Plan
(TEMP) format, which of the following documents is considered to be
one of the four parts of the TEMP that serve as a starting point for
organizing a successful T&E program? Ans✓✓✓ Test and Evaluation
Strategy
Assuring that materiel approaches are refined and key technologies are
being matured, what JCIDS document is used to build upon the Initial
Capabilities Document (CDD)? Ans✓✓✓ Capability Development
Document (CDD)
Cyber Security planning activities, including writing the Cyber Security
Strategy annex to the Program Protection Plan, should
begin____________________. Ans✓✓✓ after the Capability
Development Document (CDD) validation
DoD services and agencies submit Program Objectives Memoranda
(POM) to OSD during what phase of the Planning, Programming,
Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process? Ans✓✓✓ Programming
accurate answers
__________ solutions are documented in the DOTMLPF-P Change
Recommendation (DCR). Ans✓✓✓ Non-materiel
_______________ consist(s) of a set of process elements, or "tools,"
used to provide balance and manage the execution of the system
engineering process. Ans✓✓✓ Technical Management Processes
_____________Guards against improper information modification or
destruction. Ans✓✓✓ Integrity
A "not invented here" mentality is considered: Ans✓✓✓ A barrier to
IPPD implementation
A member of the program team wants to take control and delegate tasks,
even when they are not in a supervisory role, to position themselves for
promotion. These actions represent a need for power based on which
motivational theory? Ans✓✓✓ McClelland's Three-factor Theory
A program office for a command and control system needs to prepare a
Statement of Work (SOW) that lays out the products to be delivered and
the technical reviews to be held by the contractor. Which tool would
they most likely use? Ans✓✓✓ Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
,A software costing method that uses a team of experts working both
independently and together to combine different approaches and arrive
at a collective judgment through consensus is an example of the
_________ costing method. Ans✓✓✓ Delphi
A software-costing model that bases cost estimates upon statistical data
such as source lines of code is an example of a ________costing model
Ans✓✓✓ Parametric
A strategy that adopts interface standards that are defined by and widely
used throughout industry to facilitate the update of components with
new technology is ___________________. Ans✓✓✓ open systems
A system prototype that is demonstrated in an operational environment
describes which one of the Technology Readiness Levels listed below?
Ans✓✓✓ TRL 7
Affordability is most concerned with: Ans✓✓✓ Making tradeoffs in
performance and schedule to achieve cost objectives within affordability
constraints.
After Congress passes the DoD Appropriations Bill and the President
signs it, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) distributes the
Budget Authority to the DoD. What is this distribution called?
Ans✓✓✓ Apportionment
, All of the following are true of Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)
actions, EXCEPT ___________. Ans✓✓✓ Changes to the
appropriation category
As a general rule of thumb, what percent of the total ownership costs of
a mass-produced system occur late in the life cycle, due to costs
associated with operations and support? Ans✓✓✓ 65-80%
As part of the DoD-recommended Test and Evaluation Master Plan
(TEMP) format, which of the following documents is considered to be
one of the four parts of the TEMP that serve as a starting point for
organizing a successful T&E program? Ans✓✓✓ Test and Evaluation
Strategy
Assuring that materiel approaches are refined and key technologies are
being matured, what JCIDS document is used to build upon the Initial
Capabilities Document (CDD)? Ans✓✓✓ Capability Development
Document (CDD)
Cyber Security planning activities, including writing the Cyber Security
Strategy annex to the Program Protection Plan, should
begin____________________. Ans✓✓✓ after the Capability
Development Document (CDD) validation
DoD services and agencies submit Program Objectives Memoranda
(POM) to OSD during what phase of the Planning, Programming,
Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process? Ans✓✓✓ Programming
