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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






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






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






4. The process of completing each project procurement






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Narrative description of products - services or results






10. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






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






12. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






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






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






15. ACWP






16. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






17. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






18. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






19. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






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






21. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






22. 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






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






24. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






25. 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






26. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






37. 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






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






39. 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.






40. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






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






42. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






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






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






45. 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






46. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






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






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






49. 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






50. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work