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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






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






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






4. 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.






5. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






6. 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






7. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






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






9. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






10. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






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






12. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






13. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






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






15. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






16. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






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






18. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






19. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






24. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






25. 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






26. 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






27. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities






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






29. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






30. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






31. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






32. 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.






33. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






34. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






35. Adding features and functionality (project scope) without addressing the effects on time - costs - and resources or without customer approval






36. Developing an approximation of the monetary resources needed to complete project activities






37. 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






38. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






39. 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






40. A component of work performed during the course of a project






41. 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.






42. Graphic display of schedule related information.






43. 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






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






45. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






46. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram






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






48. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






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






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