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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






2. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






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






4. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






5. Narrative description of products - services or results






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






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






8. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






9. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






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






11. The process of completing each project procurement






12. 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






13. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






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






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






16. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






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






18. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






23. 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






24. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






25. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






26. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






27. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






28. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






29. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






30. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






31. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






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






33. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






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






35. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






36. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






37. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. Float (total float - free float)






44. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






45. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






46. 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






47. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






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






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






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