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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






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






3. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






4. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






5. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






6. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






7. Temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






8. 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






9. Subdivision of a phase






10. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project






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






12. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






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






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






15. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






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






17. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






29. 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






30. ACWP






31. 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






32. 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.






33. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






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






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






36. 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






37. 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.






38. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






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






40. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






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






42. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






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






44. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






45. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






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






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






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






49. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






50. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram







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