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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






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






4. 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.






5. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






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






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






8. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






9. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






10. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






11. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






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






13. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






14. 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






15. 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






16. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






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






18. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






19. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






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






21. 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






22. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






23. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






24. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






26. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






27. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






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






29. 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






30. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






31. Provider of products - services or results






32. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






33. 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






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






35. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






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






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






39. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






40. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






41. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






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






43. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






44. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






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






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






47. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






48. 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






49. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






50. 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.