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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






3. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






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






5. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






6. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






7. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






8. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






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






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






11. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






12. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






13. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






14. 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.






15. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






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






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






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






19. 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






20. Subdivision of a phase






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






22. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






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






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






31. Float (total float - free float)






32. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






33. Slack - 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.






34. 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






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






36. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






37. 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






38. ACWP






39. 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






40. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






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






42. 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






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






44. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






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






46. 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






47. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






48. 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






49. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






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