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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






3. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






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






9. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






10. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






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






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






13. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






14. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






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






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






17. 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






18. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






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






20. Logical relationship where completion of the successor schedule activity is dependent upon the initiation of the predecessor schedule activity






21. Analytical technique that uses mathematical models to forecast future outcomes based on historical results. it is a method of determining the variance from a baseline parameter by using prior progress reporting periods data and projecting how much th






22. Defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. A method of estimating a component of work. the work is decomposed into more detail. an estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work - and these estimates are then aggregated into






27. Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning - identification - analysis - responses and monitoring and control on a project






28. 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






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






30. Significant point or event in the project






31. Partially complete document in a predefined format that provides a defined structure for collecting - organizing and presenting information and data






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






33. 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






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






35. Term used in precedence diagramming method for a logical relationship in current usage. precedence relationship - logical relationship and dependency are interchangeably used






36. Developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase and documenting initial requirement that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






37. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






38. Any continuous series of schedule activities connected with logical relationships in a project schedule network diagram






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






40. A condition or situation favorable to the project - a positive set of circumstances - a positive set of events - a risk that will have a positive impact.






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






42. Type of procurement document whereby the buyer requests a potential seller to provide various pieces of information related to a product or service or seller capability






43. 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






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






45. Documented direction to perform an activity that can reduce the probability of negative consequences associated with project risks






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






47. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications






48. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






49. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






50. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram