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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






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






3. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






4. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






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






6. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






7. 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






8. 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






9. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






10. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






11. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






12. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






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






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






15. 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.






16. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






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






18. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






19. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






20. 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






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






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






23. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






24. 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.






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






26. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






27. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






32. Narrative description of products - services or results






33. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






34. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






35. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






36. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






37. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






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






39. 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






40. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






50. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.