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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






3. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






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






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






6. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






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






8. 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.






9. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






10. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






11. 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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






17. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






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






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






26. 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






27. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






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






29. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






30. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






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






32. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






33. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






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






35. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






36. Budgeted cost of work performed






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






38. 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






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






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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






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






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






46. Reserve






47. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






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






49. 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






50. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds