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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. 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






6. 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






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






8. 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






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. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






11. 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






12. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






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






14. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






15. 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.






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






17. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






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






19. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






20. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






21. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






22. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






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






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






25. 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






26. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






27. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






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






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






30. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






31. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






32. Narrative description of products - services or results






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






34. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






40. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






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






42. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






43. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






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






45. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






46. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases