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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. 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






2. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






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






4. A request - demand or assertion of rights by a seller against a buyer or vice versa for consideration - compensation - or payment under the terms of a legally binding contract (such as for a disputed change)






5. Hierarchically organized depiction of the project organization arranged so as to relate the work packages to the performing organizational units






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






7. Assurance that a product - service or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders






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






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






10. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints






11. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






12. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






27. ACWP






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






29. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






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






31. Launching a process that can result in the authorization of a new project






32. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






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






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






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






36. 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






37. Extending or generating parallel schedule network paths from the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by schedule activity with more than one successor activity






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






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






40. Provider of products - services or results






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






42. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






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






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






45. Organizational body or entity assigned various responsibilities related to the centralized and coordinated management of those projects under its domain.






46. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.






47. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






48. 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






49. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






50. 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