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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






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






3. 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






4. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






5. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






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






7. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






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






23. 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.






24. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






25. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






26. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






27. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






28. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






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






30. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






31. 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






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






33. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






34. Budgeted cost of work performed






35. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






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






37. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






38. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






39. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






40. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






41. 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






42. 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






43. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






44. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






45. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






46. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






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






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






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






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