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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






2. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






3. 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.






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






5. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






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






7. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






8. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






9. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






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






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






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






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






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






15. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






16. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






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






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






19. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






20. Processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies - objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken






21. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






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






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






24. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






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






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






27. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






28. Reserve






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






30. Significant point or event in the project






31. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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






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






34. The process of completing each project procurement






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






36. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






37. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






38. 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






39. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






40. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






41. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






42. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






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






44. 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.






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






50. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project