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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






2. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






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






4. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






5. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






6. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






7. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






8. Float (total float - free float)






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






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






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






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






13. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






14. 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.






15. A product - result or service generated by a process






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






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






18. 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






19. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






20. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






21. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






22. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






23. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






24. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






25. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






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






27. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






28. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






29. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






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






31. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






32. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






33. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






34. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






35. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






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






37. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






38. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






39. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






40. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






41. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






42. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






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






44. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






45. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






46. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






47. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






48. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






49. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






50. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks