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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






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






9. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






10. 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






11. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






12. A product - result or service generated by a process






13. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






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






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






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






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






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






19. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






25. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






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






27. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






28. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






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






30. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






31. The process of completing each project procurement






32. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






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






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. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






36. 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






37. 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.






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






39. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






40. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






41. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






42. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






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






44. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






45. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






46. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






47. Narrative description of products - services or results






48. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






49. 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.






50. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity