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Comptia Project + Project Management

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






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






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






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






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






6. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






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






8. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






9. 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






10. The date up to or through which the project's reporting system has provided actual status and accomplishments. also called as-of date and time-now date.






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. Form of progressive elaboration planning where the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the work breakdown structure - while the work far in the future is planned at a relatively high level of the work break






15. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






16. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






17. 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






18. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






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






25. 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






26. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






27. A formal approved document that defines how the project is executed - monitored - and controlled.






28. Collection of generally sequential project phases whose name and number are determined by the control needs of the organization involved in the project






29. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.






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






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






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






33. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






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






35. The process of completing each project procurement






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






37. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






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






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






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






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






42. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






43. A product - result or service generated by a process






44. Graphic display of cumulative costs - labor - hours - percentage of work or other quantities - plotted against time. used to depict planned value - earned value and active costs.






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






46. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.






47. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






48. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






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






50. Risk that remains after risk responses have been implemented