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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






3. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.






4. 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






5. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






6. 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.






7. Purpose is to progressively elaborate the program charter and develop the foundation for the program by establishing an infrastructure and building a detailed "road map" that provides direction on how the program will be managed and defines its key d






8. 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






9. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.






10. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






11. A program must have more than one to function.






12. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






13. Fifth lifecycle phase






14. 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.






15. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.






16. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






17. Pre-Program Preparations






18. Program Closure






19. Program Initiation






20. ___________ 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.






21. First lifecycle phase






22. First phase of benefits management






23. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.






24. 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






25. Second phase of benefits management






26. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






28. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






29. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






30. Delivery of Program Benefits






31. Vision and key objectives for success criteria - Expected outcomes and benefits - Program assumptions and constraints - High-level program plan - Known risks and issues - Identifications of suitable business change managers with the ability to influe






32. 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






33. 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






34. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






35. Management oversight of a program






36. 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






37. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.






38. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.






39. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






40. 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






41. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






42. 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






43. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control






44. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






45. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.






46. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






47. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






48. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.






49. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






50. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.