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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






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






4. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






5. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






6. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






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






8. The process of completing each project procurement






9. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






10. 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






11. Subdivision of a phase






12. 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.






13. Narrative description of products - services or results






14. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






20. 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.






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






22. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






23. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






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






25. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






26. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






27. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






28. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






29. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






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






31. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






32. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






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. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






35. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






36. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






37. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






38. 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






39. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






40. 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






41. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






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






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






44. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






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






46. 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






47. 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






48. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






49. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






50. Provider of products - services or results