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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






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






4. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






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






6. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






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






8. 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






9. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






10. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






11. 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






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






13. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






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






19. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






20. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






21. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






22. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






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






24. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






25. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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






27. 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.






28. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






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






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






31. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






32. 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






33. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






34. A product - result or service generated by a process






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






36. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






37. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






38. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






39. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






40. 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






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






42. 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






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






44. ACWP






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






49. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






50. 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.