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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be






2. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.






3. Involves procedures required to close a contract as specified in the prescribed procedures for close procurements. Includes product verification and administrative closure.






4. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.






5. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th






6. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).






7. Activities that assist in developing/enhancing the ability of team members to work together effectively and contribute to the success of the project team. It improves the people skills - technical competencies - and overall team environment and proje






8. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.






9. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology






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






11. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.






12. A subsequent phase of a project is sometimes begun prior to approval of the previous phase deliverables when the risks involved are deemed acceptable. This practice of overlapping phases is often called fast tracking






13. Structured review of the project plans and assumptions - prior project files - contracts - and other information.






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






15. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.






16. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t






17. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.






18. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed. Such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education - knowledg






19. 1. Performed by people; 2. Constrained by limited resources; 3. Planned - excuted - monitored - and controlled; 4. Ultimate goal is to achieve organizational objectives or stratregic plans






20. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.






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






22. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.






23. 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.






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






25. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.






26. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.






27. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.






28. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements






29. The process of identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success.






30. 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






31. 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.






32. A schedule compression technique in which phases or activities normally performed in sequence are performed in parallel. Fast tracking often results in rework and increased risk. Fast tracking only works if activities can be overlapped to shorten the






33. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.






34. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.






35. 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






36. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.






37. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions






38. Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. Sequencing can be performed by using project management software or by using manual or automated techniques.






39. A subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition - such as changes in preferential schedule logic or project scope.






40. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.






41. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o






42. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.






43. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte






44. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.






45. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






46. This is done to take care of risks that were not identified in the risk response plan - or their impact on objectives is greater than expected.






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






48. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule






49. Structured review of the procurement process originating from the Plan Procurements process through Administer Procurements process. Objective is to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of othe






50. 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.