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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. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration
fast tracking (Technique)
project organization chart (Output/Input)
assumptions
develop project management plan (Process)
2. 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
grade
enterprise environmental factors (Input/Output)
s-curve
project risk management (Knowledge Area)
3. 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
virtual team
reserve analysis (Technique)
duration (DU or DUR)
quality
4. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project
executing processes (Process Group)
schedule model (Tool)
calendar unit
plan risk management (Process)
5. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables
reserve
BCWP
define activities (Process)
project manager
6. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success
project management process group
schedule network analysis (Technique)
master schedule (Tool)
identify stakeholders (Process)
7. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented
determine budget (Process)
workaround
path divergence
residual risk
8. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active
project procurement management (Knowledge Area)
define scope (Process)
decomposition (Technique)
resource calendar
9. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.
earned value management (EV
triggers
sub phase
fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
10. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance
rework
lessons learned knowledge base
procurement management plan (Output/Input)
planned value (PV)
11. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance
reserve analysis (Technique)
quality management plan (Output/Input)
manage project team (Process)
three point estimate (Technique)
12. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives
product
early start date (ES)
summary activity
direct and manage project execution (Process)
13. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase
project management knowledge area
project scope statement (Output/Input)
schedule baseline
close project or phase (Process)
14. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.
activity duration
start date
scheduled start date (SS)
schedule baseline
15. 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
responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) (Tool)
virtual team
input (Process) input
risk management plan (Output/Input)
16. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service
specification
project risk management (Knowledge Area)
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
regulation
17. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed
project cost management (Knowledge Area)
claim
administer procurements (Process)
to complete performance index (TCPI)
18. 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
project quality management (Knowledge Area)
co-location (Technique)
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
near critical activity
19. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds
resource
flowcharting (Technique)
objective
resource histogram
20. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics
identify risks (Process)
progressive elaboration (Technique)
budget
result
21. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule
develop schedule (Process)
lag (Technique)
decision tree analysis (Technique)
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
22. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis
estimate activity durations (Process)
simulation
verify scope (Process)
lessons learned knowledge base
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
practice
Monte Carlo analysis
plan risk response (Process)
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
manage stakeholder expectations (Process)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
project management knowledge area
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
25. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)
project schedule (Output/Input)
hammock activity
summary activity
calendar unit
26. 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)
slack
milestone schedule (Tool)
grade
27. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project
close procurements (Process)
functional manager
actual duration
projectized organization
28. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.
free float
schedule management plan (Output/Input)
workaround
percent complete
29. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives
sensitivity analysis
schedule baseline
milestone schedule (Tool)
verification
30. 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
verify scope (Process)
bottom-up estimating (Technique)
brainstorming (Technique)
project initiation
31. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization
buyer
late start date (LS)
bottom-up estimating (Technique)
monitor and controlling processes (Process Group)
32. Fixed price contract where the buyer pays the seller a set amount regardless of the sellers costs
develop project charter (Process)
strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - threats analysis (SWOT)
firm fixed price contract (FFP)
quality management plan (Output/Input)
33. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity
activity duration
portfolio
resource
program management
34. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item
project management office (PMO)
close procurements (Process)
risk management plan (Output/Input)
product
35. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met
triggers
staffing management plan
planned value (PV)
grade
36. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result
risk category
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
tool
start to finish (SF)
37. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic
risk acceptance (Technique)
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
decision tree analysis (Technique)
s-curve
38. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance
risk
develop project team (Process)
log
acceptance criteria
39. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity
budget
performance reports (Output/Input)
actual cost of work performed
scheduled finish date (SF)
40. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines
variance analysis (Technique)
result
identify risks (Process)
node
41. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions
schedule network analysis (Technique)
assumptions analysis (Technique)
planning package
resource calendar
42. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates
expert judgment (Technique)
estimate (Output/Input)
program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
trend analysis (Technique)
43. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities
schedule network analysis (Technique)
actual duration
sequence activities (Process)
start to finish (SF)
44. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity
lessons learned knowledge base
path convergence
finish date
administer procurements (Process)
45. Processes that organize and manage the project team
performance reports (Output/Input)
stakeholder
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
activity identifier
46. 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
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
early finish date (EF)
budget at completion (BAC)
plan procurements (Process)
47. ACWP
methodology
actual cost of work performed
human resource plan
backward pass
48. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th
project life cycle
late finish date (LF)
fixed price incentive fee contract (FPIF)
trend analysis (Technique)
49. Significant point or event in the project
buffer
milestone
finish to finish (FF)
free float
50. Budgeted cost of work performed
BCWP
s-curve
risk
seller