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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






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






4. 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






5. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






6. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






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






8. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






9. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






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






11. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






12. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






13. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






19. Float (total float - free float)






20. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






21. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






22. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






23. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






24. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






25. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






26. 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






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






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






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






30. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






31. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






32. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






33. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






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






35. ACWP






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






37. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






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






39. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






40. 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






41. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






42. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






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






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






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






46. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






47. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






48. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






49. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






50. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports