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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






2. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






3. 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.






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






5. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






6. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






7. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






8. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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






12. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






13. 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.






14. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






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






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






17. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






18. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






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






20. 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






21. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






22. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






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






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






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






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






34. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






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






36. 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






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






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






39. Reserve






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






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






42. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






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






44. 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.






45. Budgeted cost of work performed






46. 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






47. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






48. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






49. 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






50. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c