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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






2. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






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






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






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






6. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






7. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






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






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






10. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






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






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






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






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






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






16. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






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






18. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






19. 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






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






21. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






26. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






27. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






28. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






29. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






30. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






31. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






32. Budgeted cost of work performed






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






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






35. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






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






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






38. 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






39. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






40. 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.






41. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






42. 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.






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






44. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






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






46. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






47. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






48. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






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






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