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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






2. 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






3. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






4. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






5. 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






6. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






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






8. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






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






10. 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






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






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






13. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






14. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






15. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






16. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






17. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






18. Reserve






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






20. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






21. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






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






23. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






24. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






32. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






33. 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






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






35. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






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






37. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






38. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






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






40. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






41. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






42. 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






43. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






44. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






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






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






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






48. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






49. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






50. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.