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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






3. 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






4. Significant point or event in the project






5. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






6. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






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






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






9. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






10. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






11. 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)






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






16. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






17. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






18. 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.






19. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






20. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






21. 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






22. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






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






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






25. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






26. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






27. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






28. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






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






30. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






31. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






35. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






36. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






37. Subdivision of a phase






38. 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






39. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






40. 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.






41. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






42. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






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






44. 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






45. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






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






47. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






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






49. Narrative description of products - services or results






50. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project