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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






2. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






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






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






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






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






7. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






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






9. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






10. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






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






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






13. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






14. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






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






16. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






17. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






18. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






19. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






20. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






21. 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






22. Narrative description of products - services or results






23. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






24. 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






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






26. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






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






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






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






30. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






31. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






32. 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.






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






34. 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






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






36. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






37. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






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






39. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






40. 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






41. Provider of products - services or results






42. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






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






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






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






46. A component of work performed during the course of a project






47. 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






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






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






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