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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






3. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






4. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






5. 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






6. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






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






12. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






13. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






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






15. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






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






17. 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






18. Provider of products - services or results






19. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






20. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






21. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






22. 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.






23. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






24. 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






25. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






26. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






27. Float (total float - free float)






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






35. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






36. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






37. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






38. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






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






40. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






41. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






42. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






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






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






45. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






46. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






47. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






48. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






49. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






50. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining