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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






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






3. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






4. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






5. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






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






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






8. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






9. 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






10. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






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






12. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






13. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






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






15. A product - result or service generated by a process






16. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






17. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






18. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






19. 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






20. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






21. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






22. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






23. 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.






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






25. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






26. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






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






28. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






29. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






30. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






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






32. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






33. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






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






35. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






36. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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






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






39. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. Budgeted cost of work performed






46. 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






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






48. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






49. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






50. 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