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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






3. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






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






5. Subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - usually representing a subproject or work package.






6. 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






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






8. Common way to determine whether a risk is considered low - moderate - or high by combining the two dimensions of a risk: its probability of occurrence and its impact on objectives if it occurs






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






10. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






11. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






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






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






19. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






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






21. 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






22. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






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






24. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






25. Directing - managing - performing and accomplishing the project work - providing the deliverables and providing work performance information






26. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






27. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






28. Structure in which the project manager has full authority to assign priorities - apply resources and direct the work of persons assigned to the project






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






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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. The process of completing each project procurement






36. 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






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






38. Risk response planning technique associated with threats that seeks to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk to below an acceptable threshold






39. 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






40. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






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






46. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






47. 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






48. 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






49. Float (total float - free float)






50. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase