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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






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






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






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






5. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






6. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






7. Budgeted cost of work performed






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






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






10. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






11. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






12. 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






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






14. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






15. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






16. Collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to facilitate effective management of that work to meet strategic business objectives






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






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






19. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






20. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






21. 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






22. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






23. 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






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






25. 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)






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






27. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






28. An entry in the work breakdown structure that can be at any level






29. 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






30. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






31. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






32. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






33. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






34. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






35. 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.






36. ACWP






37. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






38. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






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






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






41. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






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






43. 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






44. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






45. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






46. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






47. 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.






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






49. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






50. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives