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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A program manager has been identified - and the key input into this phase - a program brief or charter defining high-level scope - objectives - visions and constraints has been generated.
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Identification
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
2. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Portfolio Review Board
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Process Groups
3. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Programs end
Relationship among projects within a program
Portfolio Components
Benefits Analysis and Planning
4. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Program Closure
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program begins
Programs end
5. Management oversight of a program
Governance
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Closure
Program Closure Phase Activities
6. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Program Governance
Governance
Benefits Transistion
Program Charter
7. 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
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Organizational Process Assets
Program Closure Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
8. Identification - monitoring and control of the inter-dependencies between the projects; Dealing with the escalated issues among the projects that compromise the program; and tracking the contribution of each project and the non-project work to the co
Any time
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Process Groups
9. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Portfolio Review Board
Program Domain
Program Setup Phase
10. 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
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Management Plan Content
Relationship among projects within a program
Program infrastructure
11. 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.
Portfolio Review Board
Program Management Plan Content
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
12. Program Closure
Program begins
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Identification
13. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Domain
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Charter
14. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Pre-program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Shutdown
15. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Means of Governance
Components
Programs
Main Program Phases Five of Five
16. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio
Program Approval Factor
Enterprise environmental factor
17. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Organizational Process Assets
Program Charter Contents
18. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Benefits Realization Planning
Program
Process assets
19. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Components
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Project Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
20. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Project Management
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefit
21. 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
Program Setup Phase
PMO
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
22. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Start
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activities
Process Groups
23. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Multiple related projects that are initiated during the program's life cycle and are managed in a coordinated fashi
Program
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Project
24. Delivery of Program Benefits
Initiating and planning
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Project Management
25. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Pre-Program Phase Activity
26. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Initiation
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Process Groups
Components
27. Focuses on the analysis of the available information about organizational and business strategies - internal & external influences - program drivers - and the benefits that involved parties expected to realize.
Pre-program Preparations
Program Closure Phase
Program Setup
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
28. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Start
Program Governance
Integration Testing
29. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Steering Committee
Program Management Plan Content
Benefits Management
Program begins
30. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Project
Program Setup
31. Third lifecycle phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Setup
Program Charter
Steering Committee
32. ___________ when all compenents within the program have successfully produced their deliverable and have been incorporated into the final product; and that procud has been delivered or tranistioned into operations.
Programs end
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
PMO
Benefits Management
33. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Charter Approval
Program Domain
Strong communication skills
Program Initiation Phase Activity
34. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program Manager
Program
Any time
Program Charter
35. Second phase of benefits management
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Portfolio Review Board
Program begins
36. Primary objective is to develop in greater detail how a program can be structured and managed to deliver the desired outcomes that were identified in the program mandate.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase
Project
37. Second lifecycle phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Initiation
Program Closure Phase
Program Setup Phase
38. 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
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Closure Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review
39. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Closure Phase
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Management
40. Each one functions as a "go" or "no-go" decision point on the program as a whole. Performed to check the program performance against the planned criteria for exit from the phase that has just been completed - and to determine the readiness for procee
Program Management
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Phase-Gate Review
41. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Manager
Project Domain
Program Charter Contents
Domain interaction
42. Third phase of benefits management
Program Setup Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization
Program Setup Phase
43. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program
Program Management
Program Closure Phase
Program Setup Output
44. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Enterprise environmental factor
Integration Testing
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio Management
45. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Information Flow
Domain interaction
Program Management Responsibilities
46. 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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Closure Phase
Program Charter Contents
47. Goes from Program to the components during the early phases of initiating and planning - and then from the components to the program during the later phases of planning and in the executing - monitoring and controlling - and closing phases.
Program Information Flow
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Benefits Management
Program
48. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Program Setup Phase
Program
Portfolio Components
49. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Components
Product Lifecycle
Enterprise environmental factor
50. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Components
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Charter Approval
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives