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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Program Governance
Program Charter Contents
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
2. Establishing a project governance structure to monitor and control the projects - Initiating projects in order to meet program objectives - Ensuring component deliverables meet the requirements - Analyzing the progress to plan - Identifying environme
Program Charter
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Domain
Organizational Process Assets
3. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Closure
Project Management
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Review Approach
4. A program must have more than one to function.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Benefit Delivery
Components
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
5. Justification - vision - strategic fit - outcomes - scope - benefit strategy - assumptions and constraints - components - risks and issues - time scale - resources needed - stakeholder considerations - program governance - and the initial high-level
Portfolio Management
Program Information Flow
Program Charter Contents
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
6. Desired outcomes - Benefits analysis - which identifies and plans for their realization Strategic fit within the organization's long term goals. - Total available resources - Estimated time scale - costs - and effort required to set-up - manage and d
Process assets
Governance
Program Approval Factor
Program begins
7. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Process Groups
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Product Lifecycle
Program Manager
8. Defines program management processes - manages schedule and budget at the program level - Defines program quality standards and components - Provides document configuration management - Provides centralized support for managing changes and tracking r
PMO
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Means of Governance
Program Shutdown
9. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Management Plan Content
Program Benefit Delivery
Benefits Transistion
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
10. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
PMO
Programs
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program
11. Purpose is to initiate the component projects and manage the development of the program benefits - which were identified during the initial phases. Ends when the planned benefits of the program are achieved - delivered and accepted or a decision is m
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
12. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Portfolio
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
13. Third phase of benefits management
Benefits Realization
Benefits Transistion
Program Approval Factor
Pre-Program Preparations
14. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Life Cycle
PMO
Portfolio Management
Program Initiation Phase
15. The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objective and benefits. It involves aligning multiple projects to achieve the program goals and allows for optimized or integrated cost - schedule - and effort.
Governance
Program Management
Program Charter Approval
Program Closure Phase Activity
16. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Charter
Project Management
Project Domain
Main Program Phases Four of Five
17. Aligning the vision - mission and values - Developing an initial detailed cost and schedule plan - Conducting feasibility studies - where applicable - Establishing rules for make/buy decisions as well as those for selecting subcontractors - Develo
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Life Cycle
Program Shutdown
Program Closure Phase Activity
18. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Charter
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Initiation
Integration Testing
19. Program Setup
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Process Groups
Program Setup Phase
20. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Delivery of Program Benefits
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Life Cycle
21. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Benefit Delivery
Initiating and planning
Organizational Process Assets
Main Program Phases Four of Five
22. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Benefits Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Means of Governance
Program
23. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Components
Governance
Program Setup Phase
Program Manager
24. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
PMO
Process assets
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
25. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
PMO
Program Management Responsibilities
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Analysis and Planning
26. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Domain interaction
Benefits Management
Project Management
Program Initiation Phase
27. Third lifecycle phase
Benefit
Benefits Management
Program Setup
Programs
28. Second lifecycle phase
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Initiation
Program Governance
Portfolio Components
29. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Transistion
Program Manager
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
30. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Portfolio
Project
Program Closure Phase
Programs
31. End result and expectations - Timeline for program benefit realization - Program budget - Risks and issues - Dependencies - assumptions - constraints - Management of the program and components - Other required services - Program
Programs end
Program Management Plan Content
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program infrastructure
32. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Product Lifecycle
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
33. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Approval Factor
Programs end
Program
34. Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Management
Any time
Program Information Flow
Main Program Phases One of Five
35. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Program Setup Phase
Program infrastructure
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
36. Understanding the strategic benefits of the program - Developing a plan to initiate the program - Defining the program objectives and their alignment with the organizational goals - Developing a high level business case demonstrating an understanding
Program Closure Phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Domain interaction
Portfolio Components
37. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Program Setup Phase
Program
Program Approval Factor
Strong communication skills
38. First lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Relationship among projects within a program
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Information Flow
39. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Project Domain
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Output
Project
40. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program Manager
Pre-Program Preparations
Any time
PMO
41. Review status of benefits with stakeholders - Disband the program organization - Disband the program team - Dismantle the infrastructure and ensure arrangements are in place for appropriate redeployment of all physical resources - Provide customer su
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Phase-Gate Reviews
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activity
42. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Pre-Program Preparations
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Setup
Program
43. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Project Management
Program Charter Approval
Portfolio Review Board
44. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Domain interaction
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Charter
Program Setup Phase
45. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Integration Testing
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Realization Planning
46. Also known as Executive Steering Group may issue a program mandate which defines the strategic objectives and benefits that the program is expected to deliver.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activities
Portfolio Review Board
Portfolio Components
47. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program
Delivery of Program Benefits
Phase-Gate Review
Pre-Program Preparations
48. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Any time
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Closure
49. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter Contents
Program begins
Benefits Identification
50. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Setup Phase
Program Approval Factor
Initiating and planning
Programs