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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






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






3. 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






4. The process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller and awarding a contract






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






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






7. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.






8. Document that specifies in a complete precise verifiable manner the requirements - design behavior or other characteristics of a system component - product - result or service






9. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






10. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






11. 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.






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






13. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis






14. Logical relationship where completion of work of the successor activity cannot finish until the completion of work of the predecessor activity.






15. Estimating the type and quantities of material - people - equipment or supplies required to perform the activity






16. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






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






18. Total costs actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. actual cost can sometimes be direct labor hours alone - direct costs alone - or all c






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






20. 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.






21. Identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and product and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance






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






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






24. Condition or situation unfavorable to the project - a negative set of circumstances - a negative set of events - a risk that will have a negative impact on a project objective if it occurs - or a possibility for negative changes






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






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






27. Point in time associated with a schedule activities' start.






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






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






30. List of project team members - their project roles and communication information






31. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






32. 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






33. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. The approved estimate for the project or any work breakdown structure component or any schedule activity






40. Graphic display of schedule related information.






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






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






43. Fixed date imposed on a schedule activity or schedule milestone. usually - start no earlier than - finish no later than






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






45. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






46. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity






47. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






48. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






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






50. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed