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Comptia Project + Project Management
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work
change control
project procurement management (Knowledge Area)
requirements traceability matrix
fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
2. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools
staffing management plan
technique
requirements traceability matrix
buyer
3. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance
analogous estimating (Technique)
plan quality (Process)
sponsor
quality
4. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.
backward pass
special cause
verification
change control
5. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end
perform integrated change control (Process)
path divergence
decomposition (Technique)
predecessor activity
6. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.
forward pass
risk register (Output/Input)
monitor and control project work (Process)
three point estimate (Technique)
7. 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.
lessons learned(Output/Input)
risk avoidance (Technique)
determine budget (Process)
constraint (Input)
8. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.
actual duration
risk management plan (Output/Input)
analogous estimating (Technique)
request for proposal (RFP)
9. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications
rework
scheduled start date (SS)
secondary risk
estimate to complete (ETC)(Output/Input)
10. Significant point or event in the project
defect
baseline
historical information
milestone
11. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.
duration (DU or DUR)
develop schedule (Process)
activity list (Output/Input)
change control system (Tool)
12. 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
project management process group
flowcharting (Technique)
claim
issue Point or matter in question or dispute
13. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance
request for proposal (RFP)
to complete performance index (TCPI)
common cause
regulation
14. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
role
change control board (CCB)
product life cycle
15. A component of work performed during the course of a project
effort
brainstorming (Technique)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
activity
16. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline
workaround
activity identifier
resource
earned value technique (EVT) (Technique)
17. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements
scheduled start date (SS)
actual cost (AC)
project
issue Point or matter in question or dispute
18. 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.
define activities (Process)
specification limits
virtual team
develop project charter (Process)
19. Processes that organize and manage the project team
budget
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
quality management plan (Output/Input)
request for quotation (RFQ)
20. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach
risk management plan (Output/Input)
plan communications (Process)
application area
co-location (Technique)
21. 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
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
analogous estimating (Technique)
path divergence
rolling wave planning (Technique)
22. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds
resource
project phase
subproject
variance analysis (Technique)
23. 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
objective
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
projectized organization
schedule baseline
24. Developing a detailed description of the project and product
preventative action
define scope (Process)
specification limits
defect
25. 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
scheduled start date (SS)
project calendar
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
lag (Technique)
26. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value
sensitivity analysis
regulation
variance
statement of work (SOW)
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
budget
path divergence
inspection (Technique)
data date
28. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality
code of accounts (Tool)
develop project charter (Process)
subproject
grade
29. 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
finish to finish (FF)
change control board (CCB)
seller
project
30. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date
scheduled finish date (SF)
project scope
objective
administer procurements (Process)
31. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.
change control board (CCB)
project
project schedule (Output/Input)
expert judgment (Technique)
32. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders
validation
sensitivity analysis
resource histogram
code of accounts (Tool)
33. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones
constraint (Input)
external deliverable
master schedule (Tool)
milestone schedule (Tool)
34. Learning gained from the process of performing the project
lessons learned(Output/Input)
risk category
late start date (LS)
project management system (Tool)
35. 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
fast tracking (Technique)
develop human resource plan (Process)
threshold
defect
36. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project
milestone schedule (Tool)
methodology
project
project initiation
37. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence
project team directory
secondary risk
fast tracking (Technique)
finish to finish (FF)
38. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project
performance reports (Output/Input)
code of accounts (Tool)
scope
near critical activity
39. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.
scope change
plan quality (Process)
communications management plan (Output/Input)
time and material contract (T&M)
40. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates
program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
effort
acceptance criteria
41. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.
resource histogram
objective
project calendar
application area
42. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response
performance measurement baseline
secondary risk
triggers
scope
43. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship
assumptions analysis (Technique)
change control board (CCB)
plan risk response (Process)
successor activity
44. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval
objective
scope creep
contingency reserve(Output/Input)
analogous estimating (Technique)
45. 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
Monte Carlo analysis
matrix organization
predecessor activity
template
46. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished
finish to finish (FF)
lag (Technique)
variance
preventative action
47. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram
resource histogram
contingency reserve(Output/Input)
network logic
Monte Carlo analysis
48. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules
change control
change requests
defect repair
project management information system (PMIS) (Tool)
49. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project
plan risk management (Process)
perform qualitative analysis (Process)
organizational breakdown structure (OBS) (Tool)
project phase
50. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.
secondary risk
product life cycle
finish date
output (Process)