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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






2. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






3. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






4. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






5. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






6. Reserve






7. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






8. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






9. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






10. 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.






11. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






12. 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






13. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






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






15. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






16. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






17. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






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






19. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






20. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






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






22. Float (total float - free float)






23. 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






24. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






25. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






26. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






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






28. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






29. 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.






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






31. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






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






33. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






34. 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






35. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






36. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






37. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






38. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






39. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






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






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






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






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






48. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






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






50. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause