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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Reserve






2. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






3. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






4. 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






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






7. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






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






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






10. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






11. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






12. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






13. 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






14. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






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






16. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






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






22. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






23. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






24. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






25. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






26. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






27. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






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






29. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






30. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






31. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






32. Processes and activities needed to identify - define - combine - unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups






33. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






34. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






35. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






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






37. 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.






38. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






39. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






40. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






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






42. 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






43. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






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






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






46. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






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






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






49. 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






50. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result