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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.






2. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components






3. Also called risk symptoms or warning signs - they are indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. They may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.






4. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.






5. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






6. Seller is a subcontractor - vendor - or supplier - who will typically manage the work of the project. Buyer is the customer who has outsourced work to the seller.






7. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships - and productivity.






8. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.






9. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






10. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.






11. It is used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project and product requirements. It contains the following information regarding the identified stakeholders: identification information (name - designation - location - co






12. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.






13. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.






14. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers






15. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.






16. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.






17. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.






18. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.






19. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.






20. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






21. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.






22. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.






23. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project






24. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative






25. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project






26. A calendar of working days and non- working days that determines those dates on which each specific resource is ideal or can be active; typically defines the resource specific holidays and resource availability periods; the calendars that specify whe






27. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.






28. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.






29. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.






30. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.






31. Risk Audits examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes - as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.






32. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.






33. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w






34. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly






35. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.






36. Used to identify project and product requirements; some of the techniques used are: Brainstorming - Nominal group technique - The Delphi technique - Idea/mind mapping - and Affinity diagram.






37. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.






38. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.






39. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.






40. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are






41. The process of making relevant information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner - as planned. Performed throughout the entire project life cycle and in all management processes.






42. Costs allocated to the project by the performing organization as a cost of doing business (e.g. - salaries of corporate executives). Usually calculated as a percentage of direct costs.






43. Describes the processes concerned with identifying - analyzing - and responding to project risk. It includes planning risk management - identifying risks - performing qualitative risk analysis - performing quantitative risk analysis - planning risk r






44. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.






45. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.






46. Probability that a risk will occur.






47. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.






48. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product






49. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si






50. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.