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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






2. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






3. 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.






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






5. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






6. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






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






8. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






9. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






10. Cost - time - quality - technical or resource value used as a parameter and which may be included in product specification. crossing the threshold should trigger some action.






11. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






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






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






14. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






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






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






17. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






18. 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






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






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






21. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






22. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






23. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






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






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






26. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






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






35. 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






36. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






37. 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






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






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






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






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






42. 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






43. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






44. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






45. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






50. 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