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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Approved integrated scope-schedule-cost plan for the project work against which project execution is compared to measure and manage performance






2. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






3. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






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






5. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed.






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






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






8. Hierarchal structure of resources by resource category and resource type used in resource leveling schedules and to develop resource limited schedules and which may be used to identify and analyze project human resource management






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






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






11. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






12. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






13. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






14. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






15. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






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






17. Subdivision of a phase






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






19. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






20. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






21. Request for proposal - but may have a narrower or more specific meaning






22. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






23. 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.






24. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






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






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






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






28. 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






29. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






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






31. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






32. 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






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






34. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






35. 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






36. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






37. Significant point or event in the project






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






39. 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






40. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






41. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables (sq. foot in construction - lines of code in software development) to calculate an estimate for activity parameters such as scope - cost - budget






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






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






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






45. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






46. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






47. Float (total float - free float)






48. 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






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. Calculation of the early start and early finish dates for the uncompleted portions of all network activities