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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






3. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






4. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






5. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






10. 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.






11. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






12. 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






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






14. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






15. 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






16. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






17. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






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






19. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






20. 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






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






22. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






23. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






28. Reserve






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






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






31. 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






32. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






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






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






35. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






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






37. 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






38. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






39. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






40. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






41. 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






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






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






44. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






45. Narrative description of products - services or results






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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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.