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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. ACWP






2. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






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






12. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






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






14. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






15. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






16. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






17. 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






18. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






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






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






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






22. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






23. 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.






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






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






26. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






27. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






28. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






29. 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.






30. 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






31. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






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






33. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






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






35. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






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






37. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






38. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






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






40. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






41. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






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






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






44. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






45. 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






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. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






48. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






49. Processes that organize and manage the project team






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