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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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.






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






3. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






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






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






6. 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






7. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






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






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






10. 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






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






12. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






13. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






14. 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.






15. 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






16. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






17. 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






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






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






20. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






21. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






22. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






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






24. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






25. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






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






27. 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






28. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






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






30. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






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






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






33. 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






34. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






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






36. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






37. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






38. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






39. 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.






40. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






41. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






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






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






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






45. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






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






47. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






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






49. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






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