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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






2. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






3. 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






4. 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






5. The process of completing each project procurement






6. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






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






8. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






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






10. 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






11. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






12. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






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






14. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






15. 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.






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






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






18. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






19. 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






20. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






21. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






22. 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






23. Budgeted cost of work performed






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






25. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






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






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






28. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






29. Provider of products - services or results






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






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






32. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






33. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






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






35. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. Graphic display of schedule related information.






48. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






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






50. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs