1) At which milestone or decision point does the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) focus on refining the execution plan for the design, acquisition, fielding, and competition of sustainment activities to deliver the Product Support Package?

• Milestone C
• Milestone B
• Full-Rate Production (FRP) Decision
• Milestone A

2) To ensure an effective product support strategy, during which step of the Product Support Strategy Process Model should the Product Support Manager (PSM) gain participation of Government and private-sector subject matter experts and industry and all appropriate stakeholders, including the Warfighter representatives?

Establish/Refine Product Support Arrangements

Integrate Warfighter Requirements & Support

• Form the Product Support Management IPT
• Identify/Refine Performance Outcomes

3) The purpose of the Program Protection Pian (Ppp) is to help programs ensure that they adequataly protect their technology, components, and informatione lt ls used to develop ____ for dissemination and implementation throughout the program for which & is created

Counterintelligence analytical products

• Tailored protection guidance
• Updated criticality analysis System security engineering plans

4) System-specific Validated Online Lifecycle Threat (VOLT) reports are required to be kept current and validated throughout the acquisition process. All Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) must have a updated VOLT in place at:

• Full-Rate Production (FRP) Decision
• Milestone B
• Milestone A
• Materiel Development Decision (MDD)

5) The Joint Staff has oversight for certifying interoperability capability requirements for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps are valid. 954

True False

6) Guiding principles to productive Integrated Product Teams include the following (Select the three that apply):

Issues raised and resolved early

• Reactive and uncommitted participants
• Lack of planning
• Goal alignment
• Empowered and qualified team members

7) Which one of the following test and evaluation (T&E) products is required at Milestone B?

• Waiver of Military Equipment Program Description
• Identification of LRIP Quantities
• No T&E products are required at MS B
• Operational Assessment

8) The Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) is mandated by DoD policy and must be updated periodically to ensure that it stays current as the program evolves through the life cycle.

True False

9) Determining how operators and maintainers will be trained on a system is a common issue the Test and Evaluation IPT have to assess in planning and executing test activities.

True False

10) Which of the following is a key tenet of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)?

• Intensive micro-management
• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Calendar-driven scheduling
• Confidentiality and preserving secrets

11) The four common risk mitigation strategies are:

• Researching, Adopting, Adapting, and Constraining
• Accepting, Researching, Allocating, and Delimiting
• Avoiding, Mitigating, Transferring, and Accepting
• Handling, Tracking, Incurring, and Reacting

12) Barriers to successful implementation of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) include the following (Select the three that apply):

Contractor uses IPPD / DoD does not

Open discussions with no secrets

Cultural change required

Lack of planning

Empowered, qualified team members

13) Which risk management activity answers the question "How have the risks changed?"?

• Risk monitoring Risk analysis
• Risk mitigation
• Risk identification

14) Which of these is NOT one of the four mandatory KPPs required by regulation to be addressed in the Capability Development Document (CDD) and Acquisition Program Baseline (APB)?

• Interoperability KPP
• Sustainment KPP
• System Survivability KPP
• Fore Protection KPP