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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






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






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






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






6. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






7. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






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






9. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






10. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






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






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






13. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






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






15. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






16. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






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






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






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






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






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






22. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






23. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






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






25. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






26. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






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






28. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






29. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






30. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






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






32. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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.






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






37. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






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






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






40. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






41. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






42. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






43. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






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






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






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. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






48. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






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






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