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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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.






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






3. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






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






5. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






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






7. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






8. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






9. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






10. 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






11. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






12. 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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






17. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






18. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






19. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






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






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






22. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






23. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






24. 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






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






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






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






28. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






29. 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






30. Budgeted cost of work performed






31. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






32. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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






34. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






35. 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.






36. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






37. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






38. 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






39. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






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






41. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






42. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






43. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






45. Reserve






46. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






47. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






48. 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.






49. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






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