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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






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






3. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






4. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






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






6. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






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






8. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






9. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






10. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






11. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






12. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






13. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






14. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






15. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






16. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






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






18. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






19. 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






20. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






21. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






22. Provider of products - services or results






23. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






24. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






25. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






26. The process of completing each project procurement






27. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






28. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






29. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






30. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






31. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






32. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






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






34. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






35. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






36. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






37. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






38. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






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






40. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






41. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






42. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






43. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






44. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






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






46. Subdivision of a phase






47. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






48. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






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






50. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date