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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






6. 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






7. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






8. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






9. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






10. 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






11. 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






12. Aggregation of the processes - tools - techniques - methodologies - resources and procedures to manage a project






13. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






14. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






15. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






21. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






22. Significant point or event in the project






23. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






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






25. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






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






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.






28. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence






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






30. Graphic display of schedule related information.






31. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






35. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






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






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






38. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos






39. 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






40. Provider of products - services or results






41. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






42. Those criteria - including performance requirements and essential conditions which must be met before project deliverables are accepted






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






44. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






45. 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






46. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






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






48. 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






49. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






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