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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






2. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






3. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






4. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






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






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






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






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






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






10. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






11. Budgeted cost of work performed






12. 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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






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






19. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






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






21. 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






22. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






23. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






24. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






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






31. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






32. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






33. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






34. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






35. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






36. 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






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






38. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






39. ACWP






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






41. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






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






43. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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