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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






3. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






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






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






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






7. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






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






9. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






19. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






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






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






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






23. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






24. 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.






25. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






26. 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.






27. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






28. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






29. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






30. 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






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






32. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






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






34. 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






35. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






36. 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.






37. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






38. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






39. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






40. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






41. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






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






43. A component of work performed during the course of a project






44. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






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






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






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






48. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






49. 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






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






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