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Comptia Project + Project Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively
project calendar
change requests
value engineering
practice
2. Narrative description of products - services or results
start to start (SS)
staffing management plan
master schedule (Tool)
statement of work (SOW)
3. 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.
requirement
opportunity
monitor and control risks (Process)
schedule performance index (SPI)
4. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy
precedence diagramming method (PDM) (Technique)
buyer
risk
risk acceptance (Technique)
5. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed
activity list (Output/Input)
project organization chart (Output/Input)
performing organization
near critical activity
6. 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
project management body of knowledge
enterprise environmental factors (Input/Output)
scope management plan(Output/Input)
workaround
7. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service
scheduled finish date (SF)
requirements traceability matrix
deliverable (Output/Input)
specification
8. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance
schedule network analysis (Technique)
regulation
earned value (EV)
expected monetary value (EMV)
9. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data
template
earned value management (EV
trend analysis (Technique)
sequence activities (Process)
10. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.
communications management plan (Output/Input)
planning package
milestone
project management body of knowledge
11. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.
project management system (Tool)
lead (Technique)
close procurements (Process)
activity attributes (Output/Input)
12. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports
change control system (Tool)
reserve analysis (Technique)
activity code
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
13. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work
estimate activity durations (Process)
start to start (SS)
project procurement management (Knowledge Area)
work authorization
14. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than
activity
lag (Technique)
imposed date
procurement documents (Output/Input)
15. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services
quality
change control
common cause
request for quotation (RFQ)
16. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.
role
calendar unit
Monte Carlo analysis
request for proposal (RFP)
17. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities
requested change(Output/Input)
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
produce scope
project management team
18. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.
technical performance measurement (Technique)
develop human resource plan (Process)
risk acceptance (Technique)
change control system (Tool)
19. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions
variance analysis (Technique)
work authorization system (Tool)
procurement documents (Output/Input)
assumptions analysis (Technique)
20. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones
start date
estimate activity resources (Process)
time and material contract (T&M)
master schedule (Tool)
21. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.
work package
request for quotation (RFQ)
sub network
result
22. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process
requested change(Output/Input)
closing processes (Process Group)
sub phase
material
23. 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
voice of the customer
configuration management system (Tool)
risk tolerance
schedule performance index (SPI)
24. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project
common cause
reserve analysis (Technique)
network logic
close procurements (Process)
25. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.
schedule performance index (SPI)
develop human resource plan (Process)
co-location (Technique)
develop project management plan (Process)
26. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions
slack
project scope
fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
co-location (Technique)
27. 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.
threshold
scheduled finish date (SF)
work authorization
develop schedule (Process)
28. 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.
risk
resource
work breakdown structure dictionary
variance analysis (Technique)
29. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines
external deliverable
project manager
regulation
change control
30. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity
finish to start (FS)
authority
scheduled finish date (SF)
near critical activity
31. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.
product life cycle
material
request for proposal (RFP)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
32. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project
activity code
s-curve
work authorization system (Tool)
schedule model (Tool)
33. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.
variance
milestone
Monte Carlo simulation
define activities (Process)
34. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result
portfolio management (Technique)
sub phase
produce scope
enterprise environmental factors (Input/Output)
35. 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
progressive elaboration (Technique)
change control
resource
program
36. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event
forecast
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
workaround
deliverable (Output/Input)
37. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes
logical relationship
perform quality control (Process)
late finish date (LF)
assumptions
38. 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)
project schedule (Output/Input)
project phase
claim
produce scope
39. Budgeted cost of work performed
contract (Output/Input)
defect
BCWP
duration (DU or DUR)
40. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance
lessons learned knowledge base
path convergence
simulation
sequence activities (Process)
41. 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.
output (Process)
execute
functional organization
product
42. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used
initiating processes (Process Group)
rework
precedence relationship
start to start (SS)
43. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item
practice
product
schedule model (Tool)
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
44. 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
late finish date (LF)
product life cycle
fast tracking (Technique)
budget at completion (BAC)
45. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project
path convergence
project organization chart (Output/Input)
buffer
output (Process)
46. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
change control
functional manager
close project or phase (Process)
47. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
reserve
budget at completion (BAC)
manage stakeholder expectations (Process)
48. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.
change control
functional manager
BCWP
output (Process)
49. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
firm fixed price contract (FFP)
scope baseline
quality
50. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)
value engineering
summary activity
material
project management office (PMO)