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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






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






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






5. 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






6. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






7. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






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






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






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






11. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






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






18. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






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






20. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






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






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






23. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






24. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






25. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






34. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






46. 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.






47. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






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






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






50. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs