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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






2. 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






3. 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






4. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






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






6. Reserve






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






8. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






9. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






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






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






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






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






22. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






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






24. 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






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






26. Provider of products - services or results






27. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






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






29. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






30. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






31. 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






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






33. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






34. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






35. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






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






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






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






39. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






40. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






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






42. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






43. 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.






44. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






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






46. 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.






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






48. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






49. 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.






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