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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






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






3. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






4. 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






5. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






6. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






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






8. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






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






10. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






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






12. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






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






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






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






16. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






17. The process of completing each project procurement






18. 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






19. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






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






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






22. 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.






23. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






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






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






26. 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






27. Provider of products - services or results






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






29. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






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






31. 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






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






33. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






34. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






35. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






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






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






38. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






39. 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.






40. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






41. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






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






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






48. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






49. 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.






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