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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






3. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






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






5. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






6. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






13. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






14. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






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






16. 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






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






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






19. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






20. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






21. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






22. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






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






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






25. 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






26. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






27. 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






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






29. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






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






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






32. Deliverable that is subject to approval by the project sponsor or customer






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






34. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






35. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






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






37. 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.






38. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






39. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






40. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






41. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






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






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






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






45. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






46. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






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






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






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






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.






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