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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Budgeted cost of work performed






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






7. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






8. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






9. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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






11. A mutually binding agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified product or service or result and obligates the buyer to pay for it






12. 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






13. 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






14. Schedule activity that determines when the logical successor activity can begin or end






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






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






17. Formally documented change request that is submitted for approval to the integrated change control process






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. Narrative description of products - services or results






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






26. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






27. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






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






29. 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






30. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






31. 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






32. 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






33. Documents utilized in bid and proposal activities - which include the buyer's invitation for bid - invitation for negotiations - request for information - request for quotation - request for proposal and sellers responses






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






35. 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






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






37. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






38. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project






39. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






40. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






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






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






43. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






44. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






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