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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.
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1. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Realization Planning
Portfolio Review Board
Project Management
Program Shutdown
2. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Portfolio Components
Program Closure Phase
3. Program is ended by ________
Portfolio Management
Program Charter Contents
Steering Committee
Benefits Identification
4. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Program Life Cycle
Components
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Means of Governance
5. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Project Domain
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Life Cycle
Portfolio Review Board
6. A program must have more than one to function.
Program begins
Components
Programs end
Portfolio
7. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Benefits Identification
Benefits Realization
Program Life Cycle
Portfolio Components
8. 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
Strong communication skills
Program Governance
Program Initiation Phase Activity
9. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Charter Contents
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Phase
10. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Any time
Components
Program Initiation Phase
11. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Program Setup Output
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Charter Contents
12. 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
Process assets
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Output
Program
13. Pre-Program Preparations
Pre-Program Preparations
Components
Main Program Phases One of Five
Relationship among projects within a program
14. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Integration Testing
Means of Governance
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
15. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio Management
Portfolio
16. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Shutdown
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Domain interaction
17. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter Approval
Program Management
18. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program
Program Start
Benefits Realization Planning
Portfolio
19. 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 Life Cycle
Program Closure Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Approval Factor
20. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Manager
Process Groups
Phase-Gate Reviews
21. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Strong communication skills
Means of Governance
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
22. Second phase of benefits management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Approval
23. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program
24. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefit
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
25. 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
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Strong communication skills
Portfolio Management
26. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.
Pre-program Preparations
Program infrastructure
Program Closure Phase
Organizational Process Assets
27. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Project
Program Life Cycle
Initiating and planning
Portfolio Components
28. First lifecycle phase
Initiating and planning
Process Groups
Pre-Program Preparations
Organizational Process Assets
29. 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
Benefits Realization
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Domain interaction
30. Projects related only by a shared client - technology - seller - or resources - A collection of components (i.e. projects - programs - portfolios - and other work such as maintenance and related ongoing operations) that are grouped together to facili
Program Life Cycle
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
Portfolio
31. 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
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Portfolio
32. 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.
Project Domain
Program Initiation Phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Strong communication skills
33. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Realization
Program Life Cycle
PMO
34. 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 Start
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
35. 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
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Process Groups
36. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Closure
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program infrastructure
37. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Portfolio Components
Governance
Program Charter Approval
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
Integration Testing
Benefits Realization
Phase-Gate Review
39. 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.
Process assets
Portfolio Review Board
Main Program Phases Two of Five
PMO
40. Program Setup
Programs
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Portfolio
41. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program
Program Charter Approval
Program Setup
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
42. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Program Management
Portfolio
Process Groups
Pre-Program Preparations
43. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program begins
Programs end
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Four of Five
44. ___________ 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.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Programs end
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Management Responsibilities
45. 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.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Contents
Program Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
46. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Integration Testing
Project
Program Setup Output
47. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Charter Contents
Integration Testing
Program
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
48. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Organizational Process Assets
Strong communication skills
Process assets
Program Closure Phase
49. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Domain
Pre-Program Preparations
Governance
Program Information Flow
50. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program infrastructure