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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






8. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






9. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






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






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






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






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






14. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






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






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






17. 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






18. Float (total float - free float)






19. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






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






21. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






22. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






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






24. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






25. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






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






33. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






34. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






35. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






36. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






37. 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.






38. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






39. 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






40. 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






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






42. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






43. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






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






49. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






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