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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Narrative description of products - services or results






3. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






4. 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






5. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






6. 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






7. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






8. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






9. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






10. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






11. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






12. 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






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






14. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






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






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






17. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






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






19. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






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






21. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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






27. 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.






28. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






29. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






30. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






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






32. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






33. 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.






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






35. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






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






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






38. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






39. Budgeted cost of work performed






40. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






41. 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.






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






43. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






44. 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






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






46. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






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






48. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






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






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