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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development






2. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Forecasts of potential project schedule and cost results listing the possible completion dates or project duration and costs with their associated confidence levels.






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






7. 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






8. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






13. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide






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






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






16. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






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






18. Broader view of Project Cost Management - whereby other than project costs - we consider the effect of project decisions on the cost of using the project's product.






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. The conclusion of a project phase is marked by a review of both key deliverables and project performance till date to determine if the project should continue into its next phase and detect and correct errors cost-effectively. These phase end reviews






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






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






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






27. Repository that provides for collection - maintenance - and analysis of data gathered and used in the risk management process. Use of this database assists risk management throughout the organization and - over time - forms the basis of a risk lesson






28. Describes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the project team. It includes planning procurements - conducting procurements - administering procurements - and closing procurements.






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






30. 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.






31. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price






32. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.






33. 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






34. Bring together prequalified stakeholders and subject matter experts to learn about their expectations and attitudes about a proposed product - service - or result






35. 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.






36. 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






37. Quantities to be performed for each specific category - and can be used to estimate activity durations






38. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying






39. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.






40. 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






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






42. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.






43. Refers to the centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Portfolio management ensures that the portfolios are reviewed to ascertain that resources are allocated as per priority and the allocation is con






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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






47. A formal - approved document used to define how the project is executed - controlled and monitored. It can either be at a detailed or high level and may contain one or more subsidiary plans.






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






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






50. 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