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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






3. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






4. 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.






5. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






6. 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






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






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






9. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






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






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






23. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






24. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






25. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






26. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






27. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






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






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






30. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






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






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






33. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






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






35. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






36. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






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






42. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






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






44. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






45. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






46. 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






47. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






48. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






49. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






50. 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