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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






2. 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






3. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






4. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






5. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






6. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






7. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






8. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






9. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






10. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






11. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






12. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






13. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






14. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






15. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






16. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






17. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






18. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






19. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






20. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






21. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






22. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






23. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






24. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






25. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






26. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






27. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






28. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






29. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






30. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






31. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






32. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






33. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






34. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






35. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






36. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






37. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






38. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






39. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






40. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






41. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






42. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






43. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






44. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






45. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






46. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






47. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






48. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






49. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






50. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities