Module 1: Resource Management Environment: Competency Area 2: Manpower Management

Question 1

Where can the rules for calculating FTE employment be found?

Answer 1

OMB A-11 (page 13)

Question 2

2. What term is used to refer to the totality of units in a DoD component?

Answer 2

Force Structure (page 8)

Question 3

3. What term is used to refer to the authorized and programmed strength at the end of the fiscal year for the active forces, the Selected Reserve, and appropriated-fund civilian employees in the FYDP?

Answer 3

Peacetime Strength (page 8)

Question 4

4. What process involves assembling, organizing, and using manpower and material resources in preparation for war or other emergency?

Answer 4

Mobilization (page 9)

Question 5

5. What is the maximum number of days that units of the Selected Reserve and members of the Individual Ready Reserve may be ordered to active duty (other than for training) without the consent of Congress?

Answer 5

365 (page 11)

Question 6

6. What is the maximum number of members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve who may be on duty at any one time? Of these, what is the maximum number who may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve?

Answer 6

200,000; 30,000 (page 11)

Question 7

7. What term is used to describe a civilian who would be deployed to a crisis area?

Answer 7

Emergency Essential Employee (page 12)

Question 8

8. What types of activities are excluded from competition under OMB Circular A-76?

Answer 8

Inherently Governmental (page 17)

Question 9

9. How frequently must Federal agencies compile lists of activities that are not inherently Governmental?

Answer 9

Annually (page 15)

Question 10

10. What kind of activity is so intimately related to the public interest as to mandate performance by Federal employees?

Answer 10

Inherently Governmental Activity (page 15)

Question 11

11. What is one of the exceptions to the ban on gifts from outside sources?

Answer 11

The value of the gift is $20 or less (page 27)