1) The Acquisition Strategy should normally be generated using an integrated product team (IPT) approach, including representation from all of the players listed below EXCEPT the

• Milestone Decision Authority
• User Representative
• Contracting Officer
• Financial Analyst

2) 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

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

Reactive and uncommitted participants

Lack of planning

Empowered and qualified team members

Goal alignment Issues raised and resolved early

4) which milestone or decision point of the life cycle does the Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) focus on how sustainment performance is measured, managed, assessed, and reported?

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

5) Identification of the possible consequences in terms of performance, schedule, and cost occurs in which step of the risk management process?

• Risk mitigation
• Risk monitoring
• Risk tracking
• Risk analysis

6) If the program is on the DOT&E Oversight List, which one of the following Test and Evaluation (T&E) products is required before the Full Rate Production Decision Review?

• DOT&E Report on Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E)
• Live Fire T&E Waiver
• LRIP Article Quantities Approval
• Early Operational Assessment

7) A "not invented here" mentality is considered:

• A key tenet of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)
• A "Rule of the Road" for effective IPPD implementation
• A guiding principle of successful Integrated Product Teams (IPTS)
• A barrier to IPPD implementation

8) The ____ provides threat intelligence to defense policy makers, force planners and warfighters to provide an understanding of foreign threat capabilities which may affect a program's design or implementation

• National Security Agency (NSA)
• Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
• Army Intelligence Coordinator
• Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

9) 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

10) 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?

Integrate Warfighter Requirements & Support

Identify/Refine Performance Outcomes

Form the Product Support Management IPT

Establish/Refine Product Support Arrangements

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

True false

12) The risk management process has five activities:

• Analyzing, Designing, Developing, Testing and Observing
• Controlling, Alleviating, Assuming, Transferring and Targeting
• Process Planning, Identification, Analysis, Mitigation, and Monitoring
• Planning, Controlling, Analysis, Mitigation, and Monitoring

13) The purpose of the Program Protection Plan (PPP) is to help programs ensure that they adequately protect their technology, components, and information. It is used to develop dissemination and implementation throughout the program for which it is created.

• Counterintelligence analytical products
• Updated criticality analysis

Tailored protection guidance

• System security engineering plans

14) Which of the following is NOT a key tenet of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)?

• Empowerment
• Customer focus
• Serial development of products and processes
• Robust design