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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






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






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






4. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






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






6. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






7. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






8. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






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






10. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






11. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






12. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






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






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






15. 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






16. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






17. Processes that organize and manage the project team






18. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






19. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






20. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






21. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






22. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






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






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






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






26. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






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






28. 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






29. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






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






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






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






33. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






34. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






35. 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






36. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






37. Subdivision of a phase






38. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






39. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






40. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






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






42. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






47. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






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






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






50. 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.