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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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.






2. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






3. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






4. Compares technical accomplishments during project execution to the project management plan's schedule of planned technical achievements.






5. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






6. Budgeted cost of work performed






7. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






14. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






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






16. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






17. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






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






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






20. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






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






22. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






23. The process of defining and documenting stakeholder needs to meet project objectives






24. Processes involved in estimating - budgeting - and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget






25. 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






26. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






27. 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.






28. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline






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






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






31. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






32. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






33. 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






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






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






36. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






37. Risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response






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






39. Modification that allows an acceleration of the successor activity.






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






41. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






42. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






43. 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






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






45. Buyer pays the seller a set amount (as defined by the contract) and the seller can earn an additional amount if the seller meets defined performance criteria






46. 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.






47. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






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






49. 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






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