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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.






2. Reduce the probability and/or consequence of an adverse risk event to be within acceptable threshold limits.






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






4. Defines the procedures by which project scope can be changed; includes paperwork - tracking systems and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






5. 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.






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






7. Factors that - for planning purposes - will be considered true - real or certain.






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






9. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) includes four types of dependencies or relationships between activities: 1. Finish to Start; 2. Finish to Finish; 3. Start to Finish; 4. Start to Start






10. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.






11. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






12. 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






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






14. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.






15. 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.






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






17. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.






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






19. A mathematical technique to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. This is performed using run charts.






20. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.






21. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers






22. Helps to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. Examines the extent to which the uncertainty of each project element affects the objective being examined when all the other uncertain elements are held at their baseline v






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






24. A deliverable is a unique - tangible and verifiable work/product. Each project phase is marked by the completion of one or more deliverables.






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






26. Approved modifications to the project schedule that are used to manage the project






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It includes developing the project plan - managing the execution of the project plan - monitoring & controlling work - integrating the chang






30. A structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project's scope of work is assigned to a person or team. It illustrates the connections between work pac






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






32. Documentation resulting from project activities. These files may also maintain records of other projects that are detailed enough to aid in developing cost estimates.






33. Specify lessons that can be learned from each and every project - even from projects which are failures. They need to be documented. Most companies prefer post-implementation meetings and case studies to document Lessons Learned






34. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.






35. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives.






36. 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.






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






38. Projects are frequently divided into better manageable components or subprojects. Subprojects are often contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing organization.






39. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.






40. The process to develop an approximation (estimate) of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities.






41. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.






42. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component - or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed.






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






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






45. Process of formally authorizing a new project or the next phase of an existing project; links the project to the ongoing work of the performing organization






46. Deliverable- oriented grouping of project components that organizes and defines the total scope of the project - work not in the WBS is outside the scope of the project.






47. 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.






48. A method of obtaining early feedback on requirements by providing a working model of the expected product before actually building it.






49. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.






50. 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