Volume 5

Question 0

What is the Air Force’s primary human resource system?

Answer 0

Military Personnel Data System (MilPDS)

Question 1

Why is it necessary to ensure all personnel are educated and able to use the virtual Military Personnel Flight tools?

Answer 1

Our force is decreasing

Question 2

What system allows commanders and managers near real-time retrieval capability for alpha rosters and other routine reports?

Answer 2

Personnel concepts III (PCIII)

Question 3

What was designed to make official travel management easy and efficient for Defense Department personnel and save taxpayers money?

Answer 3

DTS

Question 4

Air Force members cannot carry leave in excess of how many days into the next fiscal year if they are not eligible for special leave accrual?

Answer 4

60 days

Question 5

What is the maximum number of unused leave days the Air Force can pay members for?

Answer 5

60 days

Question 6

What is emergency leave?

Answer 6

Chargeable leave that is granted within the limits of accrued, advance, or excess leave for a personal or family emergency that requires the member’s presence.

Question 7

How many CONUS or OCONUS permissive TDY days may a losing commander approve for eligible members?

Answer 7

20 days CONUS / 30 days OCONUS

Question 8

Which of the following factors is not considered when a commander decides if a member is entitled to BAS?

Answer 8

Time in grade

Question 9

How often is a unit required to conduct reviews to verify members entitled to BAS are receiving it?

Answer 9

Annually

Question 10

How many copies of the substance-in-kind (SIK) roster is provided monthly to each unit?

Answer 10

Two

Question 11

Within how many days must a substance-in-kind (SIK) letter on a newly assigned personnel be prepared and submitted to food services?

Answer 11

Three

Question 12

What is used by commanders to perform various quality force actions?

Answer 12

Unfavorable information file (UIF)

Question 13

Who determines which optional documents are filed in a member’s unfavorable information file?

Answer 13

Commander

Question 14

Today, the commander signed section V of an AF Form 1058, Unfavorable Information File Action, putting a staff sergeant on the control roster. What is the final disposition date?

Answer 14

Twelve months from today

Question 15

Which document is an optional item that may be filed in an unfavorable information file?

a. Article 15 punishment
b. Control roster action
c. Record of failure in substance abuse
d. Record of conviction adjudged by court martial

Answer 15

Article 15 punishment

Question 16

How many duty days does a member have to acknowledge notice of an intended action to establish an unfavorable information file?

Answer 16

3

Question 17

What is marked on the front and back of an unfavorable information file folder?

Answer 17

The words “For Official Use Only”

Question 18

Who should not be allowed to access an unfavorable information file

Answer 18

Members of enlisted promotion selection boards

Question 19

Upon assumption of command, when must a commander review all unit favorable information files (UIF)?

Answer 19

Within 90 days

Question 20

When does the unfavorable information file monitor remove documentation pertaining to Article 15 action?

Answer 20

Upon receipt of record of action from the staff judge advocate showing that punishment was set aside

Question 21

What action is taken by the temporary duty (TDY) commander when an unfavorable information file is established on members who will return to their permanent duty station after completion of TDY?

Answer 21

Send the completed package to the member’s unit commander

Question 22

Who can place a member on the control roster?

Answer 22

Unit commander

Question 23

What is the maximum time an individual’s name can remain on the control roster?

Answer 23

6 months

Question 24

How often is duty status reporting accomplished?

Answer 24

Whenever changes occur

Question 25

Who is responsible for updating, maintaining, and correcting duty status conditions?

Answer 25

Member's unit

Question 26

You can change members' duty status to "absent without leave - AWOL" when they have an unauthorized absence of more than

Answer 26

24 hours, but less than 30 days

Question 27

What is one of the most important aspect of in-processing?

Answer 27

Creating a suspense file

Question 28

What is the result if members do not out-process?

Answer 28

Individual base agencies will be unable to track member

Question 29

What is not an action a personnel action changes (PAC) worksheet can communicate to the commander's support staff (CSS)?

Answer 29

Promotion

Question 30

What is a tool used for notifying units that they have inbound personnel?

Answer 30

Allocation notice

Question 31

Through what system are allocation notices generated?

Answer 31

Personnel concepts III (PCIII)

Question 32

Which of the following service characterizations is not authorized for administrative separation?

Answer 32

Dishonorable

Question 33

Which of the following is not a reason members may be retained beyond their expiration time of separation (ETS)?

Answer 33

For completion of involuntary discharge processing

Question 34

Which of the following is not a consideration for hardship voluntary separation?

Answer 34

The family is separated

Question 35

When is involuntary discharge not mandatory?

Answer 35

Alcohol abuse

Question 36

Within how many days should personnel be notified of reassignment?

Answer 36

7 calendar days

Question 37

Who approves a member's projected departure date on the assignment notification printout?

Answer 37

Commander

Question 38

When considering an airman for reenlistment, commanders should consider all of the following except: a. Airman's career goals b. enlisted performance report ratings c. unfavorable information from any substantiated sources d. Airman's willingness to comply with Air Force standards

Answer 38

Airman's career goals

Question 39

MSgt Bryce has over 20 years active service. When will he be considered under the selective reenlistment program (SRP)?

Answer 39

When he is within 13 months of his expiration term of service (ETS)

Question 40

The Selective Reenlistment Program (SRP) roster, part 1, identifies for the commander's support staff airmen who

Answer 40

are due SRP consideration or reconsideration

Question 41

To whom does a career airman with 14 years active serivce appeal when the unit commander does not select him or her for reenlistment?

Answer 41

Wing commander

Question 42

What part of the Selective Reenlistment Program roster identifies airmen who have not applied for a career job reservation?

Answer 42

Part III, Career Job Reservation

Question 43

First term airmen who enlisted for 6 years may apply for a career job reservation (CJR) as early as the first duty day after he or she completes how many months on his or her current enlistment?

Answer 43

59

Question 44

Which of the following is not a rank order factor when personnel are given a waiting-list position number?

Answer 44

Last 5 enlisted performance reports

Question 45

Who can not be a rater?

Answer 45

A Senior Airman who has not completed Airman Leadership School

Question 46

When should the commander's support staff send the rater a computer-generated performance feedback notice?

Answer 46

30 days after the supervision began

Question 47

What form is used for an enlisted performance report on a SrA?

Answer 47

AF Form 910

Question 48

Who is the evaluation forwarded to upon completion?

Answer 48

Air Force Personnel Center or Air Reserve Personnel Center

Question 49

In which situation would an LOE not be mandatory?

Answer 49

A1C with 5 months total active military service

Question 50

Which of the following is awarded only to an organization that performed meritorious service or outstanding achievements that clearly set the unit above and apart from similar units?

Answer 50

Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (AFOUA)

Question 51

Who is responsible for monitoring all decoration program requirements?

Answer 51

Commander's support staff

Question 52

Who may initiate a recommendation for a decoration

Answer 52

Any other person having first hand knowledge of the achievement

Question 53

When are individuals considered for below-the-zone (BTZ) promotions to Senior Airman?

Answer 53

The month prior to the quarter in which they will be eligible for BTZ promotion

Question 54

What is the promotion eligibility status (PES) code for Airman with an Article 15 suspended reduction that prevents the airman from being promoted until the PES code is changed to a date on or after the PES date in the military personnel data system (MilPDS)?

Answer 54

A

Question 55

In the weighted airman promotion system, what two weighted factors account for 44 percent of the total point value?

Answer 55

Specialty knowledge test and promotional fitness examination

Question 56

In the weighted airman promotion system, time-in-grade is computed at the rate of

Answer 56

one-half point per month in grade up to 10 years

Question 57

What is the enlisted performance report conversion factor?

Answer 57

27

Question 58

How many months time-in-grade (TIG) and years total active federal military service (TAFMS) does a 7-level technical sergeant require to be promoted to master sergeant?

Answer 58

24 months TIG and 8 years TAFMS

Question 59

Under the stripes for exceptional performers program, no airman may be promoted more than once during any 12-month period under any combination of promotion programs except

Answer 59

Senior Airmen

Question 60

In which situation does a member remain eligible for promotion consideration and selection but, if selected, is prevented from assuming the higher grade?

Answer 60

Awaiting a decision on an application as a conscientious objector

Question 61

When career enhancements or the commander's support staff schedules personnel for weighted airmen promotion system (WAPS) testing, they do so by annotating the

Answer 61

unit eligible for promotion testing roster

Question 62

Which phase of promotion process begins when promotion selections are actually made at Headquarters Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC)?

Answer 62

Initial

Question 63

Which brief is a one-page, computer-generated extract of selected data from the Headquarters Air Force (HAF) military personnel flight (MPF) that is used by all officer selection boards?

Answer 63

Officer selection brief (OSB)