1. For a partnership to be successful, leadership primarily should be: A. Calculated.
 B. Disengaged.
 C. Cautious.
 D. Collaborative.
2. Taking time to identify the right partners ensures that: A. All people who want to join the partnership can apply.
 B. Key players are not left out of the collaborative process.
 C. The Federal government will recognize your partnership as a corporation.
 D. There are clearly identified milestones for each partnership initiative.
3. Effective information sharing involves all of the following EXCEPT FOR: A. Ensuring that Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) is fully accessible to the public.
 B. Instituting bi-directional, horizontal, and vertical information-sharing relationships.
 C. Establishing clearly defined information sharing roles, rules, and responsibilities among members.
 D. Employing an accepted process for sharing relevant threat and disaster information among members while protecting that information.
4. Factors critical to effective critical infrastructure partnerships include all of the following, EXCEPT FOR: A. Determining sanctions for lack of participation.
 B. Generating clearly identifiable membership benefits.
 C. Establishing effective, timely, and appropriately secure communication.
 D. Fostering trust, equity, and respect.
5. Participation in a critical infrastructure partnership provides all of the following benefits for the private sector, EXCEPT FOR: A. Guaranteed tax reductions.
 B. Support for business continuity planning.
 C. Access to exercises and training.
 D. Guidance with risk assessments.
6. Collaboration is the process of: A. Competing for resources between different groups.
 B. Merging several different organizations into one.
 C. Working together to identify and achieve shared goals and objectives.
 D. Coordinating different events to operate a system in unison.
7. Which of the following needs to be determined in order to develop a partnership communication strategy? A. Protection measures to prevent the two-way flow of information
 B. Whether a Joint Investment Justification is in place to acquire communications equipment
 C. What information will be shared among partners
 D. Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) program requirements
8. Critical infrastructure partners include all the following groups, EXCEPT FOR: A. Academic organizations.
 B. Local Community Arts Council.
 C. Private-sector owners and operators.
 D. Federal Government entities.
9. A partnership action plan should include the following, EXCEPT FOR: A. Project objectives.
 B. Outlined roles and responsibilities.
 C. Human factors assessment.
 D. A process to evaluate success.
10. The Federal Government can contribute to a critical infrastructure partnership by: A. Establishing mandatory goals and objectives for the partnership.
 B. Ensuring that critical infrastructure is primarily Federally-owned.
 C. Enforcing community and homeowner participation.
 D. Providing owners and operators with threat analysis and information.
11. In addition to gathering input and developing a simple unifying goal statement, what other step will help you to create a shared purpose for your partnership? A. Establish ground rules for development of implementation plans.
 B. Develop metrics for measuring accomplishment of the goal.
 C. Examine how partners’ interests align to the goal.
 D. Take action to implement shared metrics.
12. The success of a partnership can be measured by the following, EXCEPT FOR: A. The perceived cost-to-benefit ratio of participation.
 B. The impact of the partnership project on critical infrastructure protection and capability building.
 C. The effectiveness of the partnership in meeting its goals.
 D. The frequency of partnership meetings.
13. A critical infrastructure partnership’s organizational structure: A. Can be either formal or informal.
 B. Must have a Joint Investment Justification.
 C. Is established by statute.
 D. Must be registered as a Section 501(c)3 entity.
14. Which of the following is an advantage of an informal partnership? A. Legal restrictions on actions by informal partnerships limit the scope of their activities.
 B. Informal partnerships tend to be less structured and provide more freedom to explore new ideas.
 C. An informal partnership has a low priority with member organizations.
 D. Informal partnerships tend to have greater influence and recognition.
15. Which of the following actions will best sustain a collaborative partnership that achieves results? A. Ensure that action plan metrics are anonymous.
 B. Accept all possible potential partners.
 C. Measure results and hold partners accountable.
 D. Set limits on how long partnership members may be active members.
16. Information designated as Federal Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII) Program is: A. Classified as threat information.
 B. Used for regulatory purposes.
 C. Protected from disclosure laws.
 D. Recorded anonymously.
17. Benefits for potential new security and resilience partnership members may include all of the following, EXCEPT FOR: A. Fewer regulatory requirements.
 B. Increased opportunity for participation in policy development and initiatives.
 C. Potential improvements in operational efficiency.
 D. Increased access to information and networks.
18. The most important benefit of celebrating partnership success by “telling your story” is that it: A. Allows other partnerships to learn from your challenges and successes.
 B. Establishes connections between critical infrastructure owners and operators and government organizations at all levels.
 C. Is needed for action planning.
 D. Fulfills requirements to be identified as a Federally-recognized partnership.
19. Fill in the blank: Leaders working in partnership across multiple organizations or other traditional boundaries can improve their prospect for success by relying more on ____________ than on authority. A. Sanctions
 B. Organization
 C. Command
 D. Influence
20. Which of the following is most important for a critical infrastructure partnership agreement to be successful? A. It should produce quarterly expenditure reports.
 B. It should identify partnership representatives by name.
 C. It should include urban development planning considerations and guidelines.
 D. It should provide an outline of the partnership procedures and functions.
21. Which of the following is a strategy for increasing trust among partners? A. Apply one group’s organizational culture to the partnership as a whole.
 B. Establish mandatory participation requirements.
 C. Spend time to learn about one another.
 D. Restrict information flow within the group and to outside sources.
22. What category of laws requires that public access is provided to government meetings and reports? A. National Protection Framework laws
 B. Federal Advisory Committee Act
 C. Section 501(c)3 laws
 D. Open meeting laws
23. Fill in the blank. One of the objectives of the _________ is building partnerships to share information and implement critical infrastructure security and resilience programs. A. The National Response Plan
 B. The Critical Infrastructure Recovery Plan
 C. The National Infrastructure Protection Plan
 D. The National Preparedness Goal
24. Metrics provide: A. Pre-determined results of action plans.
 B. Estimates of the predicted commitment of partners to partnership goals.
 C. Measurements in both the metric system as well as the U.S. equivalent.
 D. A set of measurements that quantify results.