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Comptia Project + Project Management

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






2. Significant point or event in the project






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






7. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






8. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






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






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






11. 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






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






13. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






14. 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






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






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






17. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






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






19. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






20. 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






21. 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






22. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






23. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






24. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






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






26. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






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






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






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






30. Float (total float - free float)






31. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






32. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






33. 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.






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






35. Provider of products - services or results






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






37. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






38. 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.






39. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






40. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






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






42. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






43. 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.






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






45. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






46. 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.






47. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






48. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






49. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






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