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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






2. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






3. 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






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






5. Identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables






6. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






7. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented






8. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






9. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






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






11. Tracking team member performance - providing feedback - resolving issues and managing changes to optimize project performance






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






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






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






15. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






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






17. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






18. 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






19. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






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






21. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule






22. 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






23. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






24. 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






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






26. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






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






28. Amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






34. An artifact that is produced - is quantifiable and can be either an end item in itself or a component item






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






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






37. Project schedule network diagram drawn in such a way that the position and length of the schedule activity represents its duration. bar chart that includes schedule network logic






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






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






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






41. A technique that explores the accuracy of assumptions and identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions






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






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






44. 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






45. Processes that organize and manage the project team






46. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






47. ACWP






48. 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






49. Significant point or event in the project






50. Budgeted cost of work performed