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1. A group of documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: a) Identify and document the system's functional and physical characteristics; b)Control any changes to such characteristics; c) Record and repo
Direct costs
Communications Technology
Configuration Management System
Trend Analysis
2. 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.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Schedule Compression
Performance Reviews
Develop Human Resource Plan
3. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Technical performance measurement
Project Planning Methodology
Functional Organization
Assumptions
4. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.
Project Communications Management
Project Procurement Management
Project Life Cycle
Checklists
5. An authorized time-phased budget at completion (BAC) used to measure - monitor - and control overall cost performance on the project. Developed as a summation of the approved budgets by time period and is typically displayed in the form of an S-curve
Revised Cost Estimates
Control Schedule
Deliverable
Cost Performance Baseline
6. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Organization Breakdown Structure
Avoidance
Project Human Resource Management
Design of Experiments (DOE)
7. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Risk Categories
Resource Pool Descriptions
Project Communications Management
Risk
8. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS
Triggers
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Scope Changes
Stakeholder Analysis
9. Outcome of activities performed to accomplish the project.
Staffing Pool Description
Performance Reviews
Close procurements
Work Results
10. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Bid / quotation
Process Adjustments
11. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result
Develop Schedule
Define Scope
Communications management plan
Focus groups
12. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Develop Schedule
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Assumptions
Product description
13. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.
Re-baselining
Lead
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Resource Calendar
14. Processes and procedures developed for the closing or canceling of projects.
Simulation
Workaround plans
Project Closeout
Matrix Organization
15. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Requirements Documentation
Plan Risk Management
Project Cost Management
16. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.
Performance Reports
Cost Performance Baseline
Project Stakeholders
Procurement file
17. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Estimate Costs
Plan Procurements
Project Time Management
Projectized Organization
18. If the performing organization does not have a formal contracting group - then the project team will have to supply both the resources and expertise to support procurement activities
Scope Change Control System
Procurement resources
Project Closeout
Plan Communications
19. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result
Project
Product description
Risk Register
Project Selection Methods
20. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project includes only the essential work required to complete the project successfully. It includes collecting the requirements - defining the scope - verifying the scope and controlling the scope o
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Close procurements
Project Scope Management
Data precision
21. Describes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It includes developing the human resource plan - acquiring the project team - developing the project team - and managing the project team.
Project Management
Project Closeout
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Project Human Resource Management
22. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.
Project Scope
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Staffing Requirements
Assumptions
23. 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.
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Critical Path Method
Projectized Organization
Collocation
24. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Constraints
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Project Scope Management
25. 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
Project Selection Methods
Matrix Organization
Plan Risk Responses
Stakeholder register
26. An estimating technique that uses parameters from a previous - similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter/measure for a future project. Frequently used to estimate project duration when there is a limited amount of detailed inform
Project
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Triggers
Observations
27. The calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal - such as the budget at completion (BAC) or the estimate at completion (EAC). It is the ratio of 'remaining work' to the 'fu
Documentation Reviews
Differences between Operations and Project
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Decomposition
28. 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.
Human Resource Practices
Rework
Secondary Risks
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
29. It consists of tools and techniques used to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes. Supports all aspects of the project from initiating through closing - and can include both manual and automated systems.
Project Selection Methods
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Project Quality Management
Project Schedule
30. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Technical performance measurement
Program
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Project Scope
31. 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.
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Identify Stakeholders
Decision Tree
Crashing
32. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Data Precision Ranking
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Fast Tracking
Schedule updates
33. Requests to expand or reduce project scope - modify policies/ processes/plans/procedures/costs and - if approved - can affect budgets or revise schedules. These change requests are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.
Simulation
Change Requests
Project Quality Management
Qualified seller lists
34. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project Plan
Lag
Perform Quality Control
35. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Administer procurements
Scope Change Control System
Project Communications Management
Assumptions
36. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to
Contract
Close procurements
Bidder Conferences
Design of Experiments (DOE)
37. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Benchmarking
Fast Tracking
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Cost Management Plan
38. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This
Project Schedule
Manage Stakeholder
Risk Audits
Organizational Policies
39. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Training
Corrective Action
Procurement negotiations
Rework
40. 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.
Group Creativity Techniques
Scope Change Control System
Quality Assurance
Resource Leveling
41. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Project Selection Methods
Requirements Management Plan
Estimate Costs
Benchmarking
42. Allows for probabilistic treatment of both network logic and activity duration estimates
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Statistical Sampling
Project Assumption Testing
Scope Statement
43. Systematic process of planning - identifying - analyzing - responding - and monitoring and controlling project risk. It increases the probability and impact of positive events - and decrease the probability and impact of negative events in the projec
Estimate Costs
Monitor and Control Risks
Project Risk Management
Quality Assurance
44. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Project Closeout
Flowcharts
Forecasting
Statistical Sampling
45. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Procurement Documents
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Control Account
Training
46. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.
Proposal
Probabilistic Analysis of the project
Project Time Management
Workaround plans
47. Description of the product of the project - provides important information about any technical issues or concerns that would need to be considered during procurement planning
Product description
Brainstorming
Sensitivity Analysis
Project Communications Management
48. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Proposals
Root Cause Analysis
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
49. The process of determining project stakeholders' information needs and defining a communication approach.
Project
Projectized Organization
Communications Technology
Plan Communications
50. It compares cost performance over time - schedule activities or work packages overrunning and under running the budget - and estimated funds needed to complete work in progress.
Quality Policy
Code of Accounts
Quality Improvement
Prototypes