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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






5. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






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






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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






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






12. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






13. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






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






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






16. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






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






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






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






20. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






21. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






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






23. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






24. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






25. 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






26. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






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






31. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






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






36. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






37. 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






38. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






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






40. Subdivision of a phase






41. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






42. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






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






44. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






45. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






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






47. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






48. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






49. 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.






50. 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.