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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






3. 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






4. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






5. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






13. 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.






14. 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






15. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






16. Reserve






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






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






19. Processes that organize and manage the project team






20. 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






21. 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






22. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






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






24. Graphic display of schedule related information.






25. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






26. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






27. 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)






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






29. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






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






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






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






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






34. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






35. 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.






36. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






37. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






38. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






39. 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






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






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






42. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






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






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






45. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






46. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






47. Provider of products - services or results






48. 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






49. The process of prioritizing risks for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact






50. 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