1) 10 U.S.C. 2441 defines Product Support Managers (PSM) responsibilities?

True False

2) Why is the disposal plan updated throughout a system's life cycle?

ESOH compliance

Logistics support changes

Design changes

DSOR changes

3) What is a Depot Maintenance Inter-Service Agreement (DMISA)

• A formal agreement for one Military Service to fund depot maintenance support for another Service
• A formal agreement whereby one Military Service agrees to provide manufacturing capabilities to another Service
• A formal agreement whereby one Military Service agrees to provide depot maintenance support for another Service
• A formal agreement for one Military Service to loan tools and test equipment to another military service

4) When does disposal planning begin?

• Operations & Support Phase
• At the end of a system's useful life
• Materiel Solution Analysis Phase
• The point in time when a replacement system has been identified

5) Which of the following are features of the DoDI 5000.91 Product Support Management for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework? (Select three that apply)

Delegates development of the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan to the lead systems engineer

Codifies the 12 Integrated Product Support Elements into policy

Sustainment Reviews satisfy the requirement for ILAs after a program achieves initial operational capability

Designates which programs will be assigned a Product Support Manager

6) Which of the following performance and supportability attributes are inputs to the Capability Development Document?

• All answers are correct
• Supportability
• Maintainability
• System Reliability

6) as a Life Cycle Logistician on a Joint Program, you will have to be aware of the different requirements and potential impacts to program cost due to varying Technical Data formats.

True False

7) The Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) V 2.0 identifies 7 mandatory annexes to the LCSP. Which is NOT a mandatory annex?

• Preservation and Storage of Unique Tooling
• Configuration Management Plan
• System Disposal Plan
• Core Logistics Analysis

8) Which of the following activities is NOT part of the DoD Supply Chain Management Planning?

• War reserve requirements
• Quality programs
• Demand forecasting
• Provisioning

9) What is one of the purposes of provisioning?

To determine the spare parts required to operate and maintain a weapon system during it's initial period of service

To determine the spares required to operate and maintain a weapon system during it's Test and Evaluation phase of service

• To determine fuel consumption requirements for a weapon system during it's initial period of service
• To determine a weapon system's manpower requirements during it's initial period of service

10) What is Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS)?

• The process established by the DoD to mitigate the unauthorized manufacture of counterfeit items
• A commercial manufacturing strategy adopted my manufacturers and suppliers for managing surplus inventory
• DoD controls established to prevent the loss of manufacturers and suppliers of items or materials
• The loss or impending loss of manufacturers or suppliers of items or materials, leading to a shortage of a manufactured item or material

11) Who is responsible for preparing an RSSP for an existing system?

The Defense Logistics Agency

The Service Secretary of the new program

The General Services Administration

The Product Support Integrator for the existing system

12) The Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process is DoD's primary resource allocation system.

True

False

13) Software Sustainment needs to be documented in the Software Sustainment Plan or the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan because software upgrades during the Operations and Support phase and funding is required for software development, testing, and a tailored Product Support Strategy (PSS).

True or false

14) Which of the following are objectives of a Public Private Partnership (PPP)?

• Leverage the strengths and minimize the weaknesses of all parties to optimize sustainment of the system
• Maximize utilization of a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE)
• Increasing the private sector's investment in the public sector
• Increasing the Government's investment in the private sector

15) Which spares computation method produces an inventory investment solution designed to meet performance requirements at a minimum cost?

• Readiness Based Sparing (RBS)
• Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
• Just in Time (JIT)
• Demand planning (DP)

16) The objective of ____ is to achieve acceptable mishap risk through a systematic approach of hazard analysis, risk assessment, and risk management.

• acquisition logistics
• operational assessment
• system safety
• qualification testing

17) Which training planning activities occur during the Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction (TMRR) Phase? (Select two that apply)

Provide training and training support inputs to the Business Case Analysis (BCA)

Procure training devices

Develop preliminary training concept

Develop curriculum for test training

18) Training programs can be classified as Initial and Recurring Training?

True False

19) Lower level metrics are narrow in nature while top level metrics are more broad.

True

False

20) Which organization manages the Depart of Defense (DoD) Automatic Test System program?

• Director, Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis
• Director, Development Test & Evaluation
• Director, Systems Engineering
• DoD Executive Director for ATS

21) Why are sustainment metrics continually monitored and adjusted throughout a program's life cycle?

• To address performance issues identified in annual Sustainment Reviews
• To give the Product Support Integrator maximum flexibility to achieve the Logistics Key Performance Parameter
• To ensure an effective and affordable product support strategy
• To align PEO performance across all portfolios

22) Which of the following is subordinate to the Program Executive Office (PEO), and is the individual with the responsibility and authority to accomplish program objectives for development, production, and

sustainment?

0 Milestone Decision Authority (MDA)

O Program Manager (PM)

O Product Support Provider (PSP)

O Lite Cycle Logistician

23) The Data Management Strategy should include a description of the disciplined processes and systems that will be used to:

• Access and manage data throughout the life cycle
• Plan for and acquire data throughout the life cycle
• None are correct
• Plan for, acquire, and/or access, managed and use data throughout the life cycle

24) Which activity is 1st in the maintenance planning process?

• Perform maintainability modeling and analysis
• Identify available support equipment
• Conduct failure modes effects and criticality analysis
• Develop the maintenance concept

25) What does an effective metric measure?

• Effective metrics measure are subjective and measure a contractor's potential performance.
• An effective metric facilitates the selection of a Product Support Integrator (PSI).
• An effective metric measures how well the product support strategy delivers an on-time, quality product at an affordable price.
• Effective metrics are standardized across all DoD programs to measure performance against the Logistics Key Performance Parameter.

26) What is the term used to describe maintenance actions used to restore a system to a desired level of combat capability?

• Renew
• Renovate
• Reset
• Recapitalization

27) To develop, build, test, and evaluate a materiel solution is the purpose of which life cycle phase?

• Production & Deployment
• Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction
• Operations & Support
• Engineering & Manufacturing Development

28) The goal of Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+) is to perform maintenance only when there is

• nothing else on the schedule
• available maintenance personnel
• available funding
• evidence of need

29) Why is RFID technology important to the DoD?

• Implementation of RFID technologies will facilitate the integration of the DoD supply chain
• Implementation of RFID technologies will facilitate the use of tactical radio systems used by the warfighter
• Implementation of RFID technology will allow the DoD to retire obsolete Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) technologies Implementation of RFID technologies will facilitate weapon systems integration during Technology Maturing & Risk Reduction

30) What is a Configuration Item (CI)?

• Any item within a system that satisfies a top-level function, and is not designated for separate configuration management
• Any item within a system that satisfies and end-use function, and is designated for separate configuration management
• All items within a system identified on system drawings or specifications
• Any item within a system that satisfies an end-use function, and is not designated for separate configuration management

31) _____ is the process by which state of the art technologies are inserted into weapon systems

• Periodic refreshment
• Continuous modernization
• Performance based logistics
• System upgrading