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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






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






4. 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)






5. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






6. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






14. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






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






16. 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.






17. Reserve






18. 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






19. Making relevant information available to project stakeholders






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






21. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually.






26. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






27. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






28. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






29. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






30. 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






31. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






32. Significant point or event in the project






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






40. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






41. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






42. Information system consisting of tools and techniques to gather - integrate and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.






43. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






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






45. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






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






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






48. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






49. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






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