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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






3. 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






4. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






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






6. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






7. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






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






9. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






10. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






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






12. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






13. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






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






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






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






24. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






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






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






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






28. A component of work performed during the course of a project






29. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






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






31. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






32. 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






33. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






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






35. Processes that organize and manage the project team






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






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






38. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






39. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






40. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






41. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






42. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






43. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






44. 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






45. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






46. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






47. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






48. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






49. 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.






50. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component