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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






2. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






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






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






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






6. 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






7. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






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






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






10. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






11. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






12. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






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






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






15. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






16. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






17. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






18. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






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






20. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






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






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. 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






28. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






29. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Reserve






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






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






38. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






39. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






40. 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






41. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






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






43. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






44. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






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






46. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






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






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






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






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







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