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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






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






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






5. Performed to defined a new project or a new phase of an existing project by obtaining authorization to start the project or phase






6. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






7. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






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






9. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






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






11. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






24. 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.






25. Narrative description of products - services or results






26. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






27. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






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






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






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






31. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






32. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






33. Analytical technique to determine the essential features and relationships of components in the project management plan to establish a reserve for the schedule duration - budget - estimated cost or funds for a project






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






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






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






38. 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






39. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






40. Something tangible used in performing an activity to produce a product or result






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






42. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






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






45. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






46. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






47. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






48. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






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






50. Permission and direction to begin work on a specific schedule activity or work package or control account. sanctions project work to ensure that the work is done by the identified organization - at the right time - and in the proper sequence