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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






3. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






4. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






5. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






6. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






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






8. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






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






10. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






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






12. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






13. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






14. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






15. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






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






17. 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






18. ACWP






19. 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






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






21. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






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






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






24. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






25. 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






26. Graphic display of schedule related information.






27. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






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






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






30. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






31. 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






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






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






34. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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






36. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






37. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






38. 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.






39. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






46. 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






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






48. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






49. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






50. 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