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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






2. Slack - 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.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. Reserve






7. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






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






13. 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.






14. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






15. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






16. 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






17. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






18. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






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






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






21. 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






22. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






23. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






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






25. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






26. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






27. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






28. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






29. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






30. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






31. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






32. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






33. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






34. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






35. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






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






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






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






39. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.






40. 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






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






42. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






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






44. The process of completing each project procurement






45. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






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






47. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






48. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






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






50. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com