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Comptia Project + Project Management
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts
master schedule (Tool)
expert judgment (Technique)
lead (Technique)
report performance (Process)
2. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
change control system (Tool)
project communications management (Knowledge Area)
manage project team (Process)
3. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed
functional manager
resource breakdown structure
administer procurements (Process)
collect requirements (Process)
4. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
work breakdown structure dictionary
manage project team (Process)
firm fixed price contract (FFP)
5. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.
near critical activity
verification
actual cost (AC)
claim
6. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers
project organization chart (Output/Input)
practice
manage project team (Process)
plan procurements (Process)
7. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component
develop project management plan (Process)
effort
close project or phase (Process)
reserve analysis (Technique)
8. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance
develop project charter (Process)
risk acceptance (Technique)
regulation
finish to finish (FF)
9. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project
project management system (Tool)
request for information (RFI)
milestone schedule (Tool)
template
10. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information
project
project communications management (Knowledge Area)
fast tracking (Technique)
finish date
11. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer
external deliverable
to complete performance index (TCPI)
program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
estimate costs (Process)
12. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result
produce scope
project charter (Output/Input)
data date
request for proposal (RFP)
13. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.
near critical activity
sub network
quality management plan (Output/Input)
free float
14. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
risk management plan (Output/Input)
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
late finish date (LF)
15. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects
tool
bottom-up estimating (Technique)
estimate at completion (EAC)(Output/Input)
historical information
16. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause
objective
bottom-up estimating (Technique)
pareto chart (Tool)
resource
17. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
activity identifier
project management team
project
lag (Technique)
18. 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.
requirements traceability matrix
estimate costs (Process)
material
risk avoidance (Technique)
19. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat
work authorization system (Tool)
progressive elaboration (Technique)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
scope change
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
planning package
work authorization
planned value (PV)
rolling wave planning (Technique)
21. 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.
plan risk management (Process)
late finish date (LF)
s-curve
staffing management plan
22. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team
perform qualitative analysis (Process)
responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) (Tool)
hammock activity
free float
23. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.
risk
work authorization system (Tool)
fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
technique
24. 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
reserve analysis (Technique)
estimate at completion (EAC)(Output/Input)
risk management plan (Output/Input)
product
25. Significant point or event in the project
schedule performance index (SPI)
variance analysis (Technique)
acquire project team (Process)
milestone
26. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved
product
scheduled start date (SS)
validation
approved change request (Output/Input)
27. 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
path divergence
resource leveling (Technique)
baseline
portfolio management (Technique)
28. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle
project calendar
percent complete
free float
plan procurements (Process)
29. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes
define scope (Process)
administer procurements (Process)
influence diagram (Tool)
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
30. The process of completing each project procurement
validation
project communications management (Knowledge Area)
develop schedule (Process)
close procurements (Process)
31. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
preventative action
estimate activity durations (Process)
change control system (Tool)
actual cost (AC)
32. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project
technique
sponsor
stakeholder
performance measurement baseline
33. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.
actual cost of work performed
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
develop human resource plan (Process)
risk management plan (Output/Input)
34. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.
start to finish (SF)
result
identify risks (Process)
enterprise environmental factors (Input/Output)
35. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.
code of accounts (Tool)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
early start date (ES)
earned value (EV)
36. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project
value engineering
late finish date (LF)
decision tree analysis (Technique)
methodology
37. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives
work performance information
plan risk response (Process)
activity attributes (Output/Input)
slack
38. 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
resource calendar
code of accounts (Tool)
sub phase
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
39. Float (total float - free float)
free float
slack
initiating processes (Process Group)
human resource plan
40. 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
product
contingency reserve(Output/Input)
planning package
objective
41. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes
change control
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
perform quality control (Process)
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
42. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline
perform qualitative analysis (Process)
external deliverable
methodology
BCWP
43. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables
root cause analysis (Technique)
define activities (Process)
functional manager
common cause
44. 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.
invitation for bid (IFB)
imposed date
opportunity
verification
45. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.
calendar unit
performance reports (Output/Input)
develop schedule (Process)
data date
46. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.
earned value (EV)
activity code
BCWS
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
47. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration
specification limits
budget
assumptions
project management knowledge area
48. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
perform quality control (Process)
virtual team
finish to start (FS)
49. 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
sub phase
precedence diagramming method (PDM) (Technique)
project team directory
variance analysis (Technique)
50. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives
estimate activity resources (Process)
administer procurements (Process)
duration (DU or DUR)
direct and manage project execution (Process)