Navy PS2 Advancement Exam Practice Test: Personnel Specialist E-5 Questions

431 practice questions for the PS E-5 advancement exam: leave, reenlistment and bonuses, transfers and orders, passenger travel, pay, separations, ID cards, FSA, hostile fire pay, allotments, SGLI, flight pay, separation pay, overseas COLA and TLA, housing allowances, TDY travel rules, evacuation travel, the advancement worksheet, billet-based advancement enlisted distribution (MNA alignments) and Reserve VTU, officer bonus, strength gain, billet assignment and strength-loss rules. We wrote every one from the public references on the March 2027 PS bibliography, and each answer links the page it comes from. Practice tests are 50 questions; aim for 35.

The real test: Your Navy-wide advancement exam is drawn from your rate's bibliography and comes back as a standard score that counts toward your final multiple; the Navy publishes no pass mark. Our practice test is 50 of our own questions with a 70% target.

Here: 431 questions. Our own practice questions, written from public references on the Navy PS bibliography (MILPERSMAN, BUPERS and OPNAV instructions on the PS bibliography). Not Navy exam questions. Free.

What's on the test

10 sample questions

1. Active duty members accrue leave at what rate?

   • A.2.5 days for each month of active duty
   • B.30 days at the start of each fiscal year
   • C.3 days a month after 10 years of service
   • D.2 days a month
   Show answer

   A. 2.5 days for each month of active duty

   PS5-16re5 · Customer service and personnel processing · MILPERSMAN 1050-010 p. 5

2. The most important advancement eligibility requirement is:

   • A.Time in rate for the pay grade being sought
   • B.The PMK-EE
   • C.The CO/OIC recommendation
   • D.A passing PFA
   Show answer

   C. The CO/OIC recommendation

   PS5-15vfu · Education services (advancement) · BUPERSINST 1430.16H p. 25

3. SDAP is:

   • A.A pay for officers in command billets
   • B.A monthly pay for qualified enlisted members in designated hard assignments
   • C.An allowance for duty in high-cost areas
   • D.A one-time bonus for reenlisting in a critical rating
   Show answer

   B. A monthly pay for qualified enlisted members in designated hard assignments

   PS5-j1w6i · MILPAY processing · OPNAVINST 1160.6D p. 2

4. A member is discharged on 7 December. To keep continuous service, they must reenlist by:

   • A.7 June
   • B.6 March
   • C.7 March
   • D.31 December
   Show answer

   C. 7 March

   PS5-wu595 · Reenlistment and extension · MILPERSMAN 1160-030 p. 2

5. A Sailor separating at the end of a normal enlistment (EAOS) gets how much transition PTDY?

   • A.5 days
   • B.None; it isn't involuntary
   • C.10 days, the same as an HYT separation
   • D.20 days
   Show answer

   B. None; it isn't involuntary

   PS5-1y2cf · Separations and retirement · MILPERSMAN 1320-220 p. 1

6. TDY travel is arranged, approved, and liquidated in:

   • A.NSIPS
   • B.DTS
   • C.MyPCS
   • D.WinIATS
   Show answer

   B. DTS

   PS5-itp2z · Travel and transportation · OPNAVINST 4650.15C p. 5

7. Which NAVPERSCOM branch aligns enlisted Sailors to billets with the commands under the EDVP?

   • A.PERS-4013
   • B.PERS-95
   • C.PERS-813
   • D.PERS-40 (enlisted detailing)
   Show answer

   A. PERS-4013

   PS5-1d1k0 · Manning and manpower management · BUPERSINST 1080.54B p. 1

8. The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is made up of the Active Status Pool and:

   • A.The Standby Reserve (inactive status list)
   • B.The Retired Reserve
   • C.The Voluntary Training Unit
   • D.The Selected Reserve
   Show answer

   C. The Voluntary Training Unit

   PS5-hl5yg · Reserve management and processing · RESPERSMAN 1300-030 p. 2

9. Leave does NOT accrue during which period?

   • A.Unauthorized absence
   • B.Convalescent leave
   • C.Deployment
   • D.Temporary additional duty
   Show answer

   A. Unauthorized absence

   PS5-jarbp · Customer service and personnel processing · MILPERSMAN 1050-010 p. 5

10. Advancement may be withheld for cause, but not for:

    • A.A PFA failure
    • B.Pending NJP
    • C.Lack of observation
    • D.A letter of instruction
    Show answer

    C. Lack of observation

    PS5-jkcyw · Education services (advancement) · BUPERSINST 1430.16H p. 25

What the study guide does

• Short study rounds and flip cards.
• A practice test built like the real one: 50 questions, 35 to pass.
• Pass Meter: your chance of passing if you sat the test today, worked out from your own answers.
• An explanation for every answer.