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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






3. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






4. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






5. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






6. 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.






7. Narrative description of products - services or results






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






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






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






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






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






13. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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






24. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






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






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






27. 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






28. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






29. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






30. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






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






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






33. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






34. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






35. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






36. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






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






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






39. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






40. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






41. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






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






43. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






44. 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






45. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






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






47. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






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






49. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






50. Budgeted cost of work performed