Those Federal Bureaucrats Not Appointed on the Basis of Qualifications

question 189

Multiple Choice

Those federal bureaucrats not appointed on the basis of qualifications designed by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are called

• A) civil service employees.
• B) life-tenure employees.
• C) the excepted service.
• D) the competitive service.
• E) contingent employees.

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