Performance Management Certification Survey 2024 Directions: The following serves as an open-book, practice exam. The practice exam is identical to the online test. You have two options: 1) you may print out this practice exam and use the course materials to answer the questions. After you have finished the practice exam, click on this link and use your completed practice exam to take the actual online certification exam; and 2) go directly to the online test, bypassing the practical exam. For both options, you may use the course materials to answer the questions. Note: Certification is based on receiving a score of 92%. There are total of 25 answers. Your examination will be scored, and your score returned to you in an email. You may take the examination until you achieve a score of at least 92%. When you receive a score of 92%, you will receive a certificate and an email will be sent to your executive director indicating your certification status. Thank you and good luck.

1. Please provide your name, HIDTA name and email address where we may send your exam results.

Name
HIDTA
Email

2. Select the HIDTA Program goals from the following. Select all that apply.

To disrupt the market for illegal drugs by dismantling or disrupting drug trafficking and/or money laundering organizations
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of HIDTA initiatives
To assist federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies with investigating regional drug and violent crime
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement

3. The HIDTA Program Policy and Budget Guidelines contains information regarding the Performance Management Process.

True
False

4. PMP is based on guiding principles. Select all that apply.

Do what you say
Show what you did
Report outcomes that affect other regions of the country
Say what you do

5. PMP allows HIDTAs to be compared to:

Each other
Their own performance expectations set in collaboration with the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Byrne/JAG funded task forces
Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies

6. Performance expectations for the current performance period must be finalized by March 31 and the PMP database will be locked to current year expected performance levels on April 1st.

True
False

7. Performance expectations for the current performance period may be revised due to the following. Select all that apply.

Discretionary funds are awarded
The initiative experiences a change in mission, focus, manpower, or funding
All of the above
None of the above

8. ONDCP requires all actual outputs be reported in PMP by the end of February of the year following the end of the reporting year.

True
False

9. Variances in performance expectations above or below what percent requires the reporting HIDTA to provide an explanation for the variance in its Management and Coordination Initiative IDBP?

5%
10%
15%
20%

10. The HIDTA Program reporting year is the same as:

The Federal fiscal year
The calendar year
The fiduciary agency’s budget year
All of the above

11. Threat-specific measures address expected and actual outputs and outcomes activities not common among HIDTAs.

True
False

12. If a HIDTA does not report a DTO/MLO during the year it was identified and the DTO/MLO is under investigation during the current program year, the HIDTA should.

Enter the DTO/MLO into PMP using January 1 of the current reporting year as the identified data
The DTO/MLO cannot be entered into PMP
Enter the date the DTO/MLO investigation began in the notes field
Request ONDCP approval to open the database and allow the entry to be made in the year the DTO/MLO was identified

13. If a HIDTA does not report a drug seizure in the reporting year in which it was seized and the database has been locked for that year, the HIDTA should:

Enter the seizure into PMP using January 1 of the current reporting year as the seizure date
Request the ONDCP unlock the database so that the seizure can be entered into PMP
Enter the seizure using the true date of the seizure in the notes field

14. Who can provide you with the 4a. Budget Report and what system does it come from?

Training Coordinator, HOTT System
Finance Manager, FMS.net
Local Finance Manager, PMP
None of the above

15. Which document below reflects realistic annual funding needs for each initiative, specific quantitative outputs, and sufficient descriptive detail for ONDCP to assess whether initiatives will achieve the performance expectations proposed?

Threat Assessment
Strategy
Initiative Description and Budget Proposal
Annual Report

16. The HIDTA PMP Coordinator is responsible for pushing administrative and initiative-level data at the start of each program year.

True
False

17. Select the statement that best defines a DTO for PMP purposes.

A DTO consists of two or more persons, has a clearly-defined chain-of-command, and generates income or acquires assets through a series of illegal drug production, manufacturing, or distribution purposes.
A DTO consists of five or more persons, has a clearly-defined chain-of-command, and generates income or acquires assets through a series of illegal drug production, manufacturing, importation, or distribution activities.
A DTO has a clearly-defined chain-of-command, can be as few as three people, and generates income or acquires assets through a variety of illegal drug and money laundering activities

18. Select the statement that best defines an MLO for PMP purposes.

An MLO consists of a clearly-defined chain-of-command and generates income or acquires assets through a series of money laundering activities
An MLO consists of two or more persons engaged in money laundering activities
An MLO consists of a loose-knit affiliation of five or more persons who occasionally collaborate to engage in money laundering.
An MLO consists of one or more individuals engaged in drug money laundering activities

19. Select the statement below that best defines when an organization is disrupted:

The organization’s leadership, financial base, and supply network are destroyed and incapable of operating or reconstituting itself
The normal and effective operation of the organization is impeded as indicated by changes in leadership, methods of financing, transportation, distribution, communication, or drug production.
When all fugitives have been apprehended, all cases have been adjudicated, and all appeals by those charged have been exhausted.

20. Select the statement below that best defines when an organization is dismantled:

The organization’s leadership, financial base, and supply network are destroyed and incapable of operating or reconstituting itself
The normal and effective operation of the organization is impeded as indicated by changes in leadership, methods of financing, transportation, distribution, communication, or drug production.
When all fugitives have been apprehended, all cases have been adjudicated, and all appeals by those charged have been exhausted.

21. A case refers to an agency’s administrative process to collate and track an investigation.

True
False

22. A case is closed for HIDTA purposes when all HIDTA investigative action has ceased or when the single DTO in a case has been dismantled.

True
False

23. Select the statements below that are true about reporting seizures in PMP.

All seizures must be associated with a case number
Drug seizures made by the HIDTA initiatives must be reported at least quarterly, and cash and asset seizures may be reported annually
If an initiative seizes a drug that is not available on the drop-down list in Web-PMP, the initiative does not need to record that drug’s seizure
When Multiple initiatives collaborate and seize a drug, only one initiative may claim/report the drug seizure in the PMP database, unless the initiatives split the seizure in the database
Full seizure value/quantity may be reported by a single initiative with notes indicating the joint operation

24. Please select all of the statements below that are true about event deconflictions.

HIDTAs must report the number of agencies using its deconfliction services
Deconfliction services must be provided to all HIDTA initiatives and offered to law enforcement agencies, regardless of whether they participate in the HIDTA
All of the above
None of the above.

25. The HIDTA PMP Coordinator must implement a review of new DTOs/MLOs and reported disruptions/dismantlement's ensuring PMP definitions are uniformly applied.

True
False