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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






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






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






4. 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






5. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






6. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






7. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






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






9. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






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






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






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






13. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






14. 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






15. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






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






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






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






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






20. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






21. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






22. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






23. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






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






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






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






27. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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






29. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






30. 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.






31. 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






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






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






34. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






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






36. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






42. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






43. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






44. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






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






46. 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.






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






48. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






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






50. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses