CGSC X100 EXAM LATEST 2023-2024 ACTUAL EXAM
450 REAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES (VERIFIED
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What's the difference between incremental and spiral development acquisition strategy approaches? -
ANSWER-Incremental Development: End-state is known; requirements met over time in several
increments.
Spiral Development: End-state is not known; requirements for increments dependent upon technology
maturation and user feedback.
What are Exit Criteria? - ANSWER-Program-specific accomplishments that must be satisfactorily
demonstrated before a program can progress further in the current acquisition phase or transition to
the next acquisition phase.
Explain the purpose and name two activities of the Materiel Solution Analysis phase. - ANSWER-
Purpose: Assess potential materiel solutions Activities: Conduct AoA, develop Technology Development
Strategy (TDS) & draft CDD.
Explain the purpose and name two activities of the Technology Development phase. - ANSWER-Purpose:
Reduce Technology Risk, determine and mature appropriate set of technologies to be integrated into a
full system, and to demonstrate Critical Technology Elements on Prototypes. Activities: Competitive
prototyping; Develop RAM strategy; conduct Preliminary Design Review (PDR)
Explain the purpose and name two activities of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase.
- ANSWER-Purpose: Develop a system or increment of capability, develop an affordable manufacturing
process, minimize logistics footprint. Activities (Integrated System Design): Define System of System
Functionality & Interfaces, Complete Detailed Design, System-Level PDR (as needed)/CDR, Establish
Product Baseline. Activities (System Capability & Manufacturing Process Demonstration):
Developmental Testing (DT) Assesses Progress Against Technical Parameters, and Operational
Assessments (OA) Against CDD.
Explain the purpose and name two activities of the Production and Deployment phase. - ANSWER-
Purpose: Achieve an operational Capability that satisfies mission needs. Activities (LRIP/IOT&E): IOT&E,
LFT&E and Interoperability Testing of Production or Production-Representative Articles; IOC possible.
Activities (Full-Rate Production & Deployment): Full-Rate Production; Fielding and Support of Fielded
Systems; IOC/FOC
,What 3 program parameters are documented in an APB? - ANSWER-Acquisition Program Baseline: Key
Cost, Schedule, and Performance thresholds
When is the APB updated and formally briefed/approved? - ANSWER-The APB is updated and briefed at
each Milestone Decision Brief
What is the STA and what is its purpose? Who prepares it? - ANSWER-System Threat Assessment:
Describes the threat to be countered and the projected threat environment. The threat information
must be validated by the DoD components for Acquisition Category (ACAT) II programs. Prepared by the
appropriate Service or intelligence agency.
What s the DAES and what is its purpose? Who submits it to whom? How often? - ANSWER-Defense
Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES) Report. Purpose: -Report program information, assessments, and
comments from the PM, PEO, and CAE. -Highlight both potential and actual program problems to the
USD(AT&L) before they become significant.
Doctrine - ANSWER-a body of thought on how Army forces operate as an integral part of joint force. It
establishes the following: How the Army views the nature of operations fundamentals by which Army
forces conduct operations Methods by which commanders exercise mission command
Unified Land Operations - ANSWER-Describes how the Army seizes, retains, and exploits the initiative to
gain and maintain position of relative advantage in **sustained land operations through simultaneous
**offensive, **defensive and **stability operations in order to prevent or deter conflict, prevail in war
and create conditions for favorable conflict resolution
Land operations - ANSWER-Land combat against an armed adversary is an intense, lethal activity
Joint Missions: - ANSWER-Each mission requires applying conventional and special operations forces in
conjunction wit the other instruments of Nation Power-diplomatic, economic and informational
Core Competencies - ANSWER-Combined Arms Maneuver Wide Area Security
,Enabling Competencies - ANSWER-Support security cooperation; tailor forces for the combatant
commander; Conduct entry operations; Provide Flexible mission command; Support joint and Army
forces; Support domestic civil authorities; Mobilize and integrate the reserve component
Joint Operations - ANSWER-Support the National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy, and
National Military Strategy
Interagency Activities - ANSWER-The instruments of national power (DIME-diplomatic, informational,
military and economic) Complement and reinforce each other
Intergovernmental - ANSWER-An organization created by a formal agreement between two or more
governments
Multinational Operations - ANSWER-The way forward
The key concepts within the Army's operational doctrine are: - ANSWER-The Army Operation Concept of
unified land operations; The operational environment (OE); **Range of Military Operations (ROMO);
Decisive Action; Combat Power (Eight Elements); Operational Art; **Information Superiority; **Strategic
and Operational Reach
Unified Actions - ANSWER-Central synchronization coordination and/or integration of the activities of
governmental and non-governmental entities with military operation to achieve unity of effort
Offensive Operations - ANSWER-Offensive actions are combat operations conducted to defeat and
destroy enemy forces and seize terrain, resources, and population centers
Defensive Operations - ANSWER-To create conditions for counteroffensive that allows Army forces to
gain the initiative
Stability Operations - ANSWER-aims to create conditions so that the local populace regards the situation
as legitimate, acceptable, and predictable; aims to lessen the level of violence; aims to enable the
function of governmental, economic, an societal institutions.
encourages the general adherence to local laws, rules, and norms of behavior
, - ANSWER-
Combined Arms Manuever - ANSWER-the application of the elements of combat power in unified action
to **defeat enemy ground forces, to seize, occupy, and defend land areas; and to achieve physical,
temporal and psychological advantages over the enemy to seize and exploit the initiative. Physical
Advantage-may include the defeat or destruction of enemy forces or the control of key terrain,
population centers, or critical resources and enablers
Wide Area Security - ANSWER-The application of the elements of combat power in unified action to **
protect populations, forces, infrastructures, and activities; to deny the enemy positions of advantage;
and to consolidate gains in order to **retain the initiative
A stability mechanism - ANSWER-primary method through which forces affect civilians in order to attain
conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace (couple, control, influence, and support)
Mission Command War-fighting functions - ANSWER-The related task and systems that develop and
interpret those activities enabling a commander to balance the area of command and the span of
control in order to integrate the other war fighting functions
Commander Tasks - ANSWER-Leads Staff TO Drive the operation process through the activities of
understand, visualize , describe, lead and assess; Develop teams both within their own organization and
with unified action partners; Informs and influence audiences, inside and outside their organization
War-fighting functions - ANSWER-Mission Command; Protection; Movement and Maneuver;
Intelligence; Fires; Sustainment;
Mission Command and War-fighting function - ANSWER-guides, integrates and synchronizes Army forces
through the conduct of unified land operation
The Operation Process - ANSWER-The Army's Framework for exercising mission command
Commander's Intent - ANSWER-A clear, concise statement of what the force must do and the condition
the force must establish with respect to the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations that represent the
