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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






7. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






8. 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






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






10. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






11. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






12. 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






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






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






15. 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)






16. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






17. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






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






19. 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.






20. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






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






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






23. 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






24. Budgeted cost of work performed






25. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






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






27. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






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






29. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






30. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






31. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






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






33. 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






34. Subdivision of a phase






35. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






36. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs






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






38. 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






39. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






40. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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