Test your basic knowledge |

Comptia Project + Project Management

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






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






3. 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.






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






5. Narrative description of products - services or results






6. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






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






8. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






9. A component of work performed during the course of a project






10. Document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organization resources to the project activities






11. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






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






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






14. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






15. Collect project performance data with respect to a plan - produce performance measures and report and disseminate performance information






16. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






17. Modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity. activity with a 10 day lag - cannot start until 10 days after an activity is finished






18. ACWP






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






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






21. Deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






22. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






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






24. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






25. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






26. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






27. Shortening the project schedule duration without reducing the project scope






28. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






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






30. Degree - amount or volume of risk that an organization or individual will withstand






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






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






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






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






35. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






36. Type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services.






37. 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.






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






39. 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






40. Float (total float - free float)






41. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






42. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






43. The process of completing each project procurement






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






45. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






46. Estimate or prediction of conditions and events in the projects future based on information and knowledge available at the time of the forecast. information is based on the project's past performance and expected future performance






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






48. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






49. 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






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