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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






3. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






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






5. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






6. Documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers






7. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






8. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






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






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






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






12. Features and functions that characterize a product - service or result






13. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.






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






15. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






16. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






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






18. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






19. 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






20. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






21. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






22. 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






23. Subsystem of overall project management system. collection of formal documented procedures that defines how project work will be authorized to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time and in the proper sequence.






24. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed. Calculated based on performance to date or estimated by the project team based on other factors






25. Significant point or event in the project






26. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






27. 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






28. 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






29. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






30. The process of completing each project procurement






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






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






33. Identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - reporting relationships and creating a staffing management plan.






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






35. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






36. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity maybe completed based upon schedule network logic - the completion date and any constraints assigned to the schedule activities without violating a schedule constraint or delaying the project






37. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives






38. Information gathering technique examines the project from the perspective of each projects strengths - weaknesses - opportunities - and threats to increase the breadth of the risks considered by risk management






39. Float (total float - free float)






40. Something toward which work is to be directed - a strategic position to be attained - or a purpose to be achieved - a result to be obtained - a product to produced or a service to be performed






41. Monitoring and recording results of executing the quality activities to assess performance and recommend necessary changes






42. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






43. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






44. 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.






45. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






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. Assumptions are factors that - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real - or certain without proof or demonstration






48. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






49. 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






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