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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. 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






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






4. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






5. 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






6. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






7. 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.






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. The process of completing each project procurement






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






23. 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






24. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






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






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






27. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






28. Provider of products - services or results






29. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






30. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






31. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






32. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






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






34. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






35. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






36. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






37. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






38. 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






39. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






45. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






46. 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






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






48. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






49. 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.






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