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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






3. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






4. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






5. Budgeted cost of work performed






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






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






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






9. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






10. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






11. 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






12. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






13. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






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






15. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






16. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






17. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






18. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






19. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






20. 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.






21. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






22. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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






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






25. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






26. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






27. The process of completing each project procurement






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






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






30. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






31. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






43. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






44. 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.






45. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






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






47. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






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






49. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






50. 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