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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






3. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






4. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






5. 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






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






7. 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






8. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






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






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






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






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






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






14. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






15. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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






17. 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






18. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






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






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






21. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. ACWP






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






30. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






31. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






32. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






33. 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






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






35. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






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






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






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






39. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






40. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






41. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






42. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






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






44. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






45. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






46. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






47. 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






48. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






49. 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.






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