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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. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Project Domain
Program infrastructure
Benefits Realization
Program Benefit Delivery
2. Third phase of benefits management
Domain interaction
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Realization
Program Setup Output
3. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
Programs
Main Program Phases Four of Five
4. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Benefits Transistion
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter
5. First phase of benefits management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Initiating and planning
Benefits Identification
Program Initiation Phase
6. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Closure Phase
Program Manager
Any time
Portfolio Management
7. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management
Relationship among projects within a program
Phase-Gate Reviews
8. Program Initiation
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Start
Program Shutdown
Main Program Phases Two of Five
9. 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
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Initiation Phase
Phase-Gate Review Approach
10. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Identification
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Management
11. 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.
Portfolio Management
Project
Domain interaction
Program Setup Phase
12. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Setup Phase
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Start
Main Program Phases Five of Five
13. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Program Setup Output
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Programs
Process assets
14. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
15. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio Components
Pre-program Preparations
16. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Initiation
Project Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
17. 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 Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio
18. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Organizational Process Assets
Program Manager
Benefits Management
Program Initiation Phase
19. Management oversight of a program
Any time
Relationship among projects within a program
Governance
Program Charter
20. 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 Initiation Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Charter Approval
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
21. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Programs end
Product Lifecycle
Pre-program Preparations
22. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Domain interaction
23. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Governance
Program Setup Output
Program Initiation Phase
24. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
Program Setup Output
Program Domain
25. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Integration Testing
Means of Governance
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Initiation
26. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Program infrastructure
Initiating and planning
Program Management Plan Content
Means of Governance
27. 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.
Program Management
Program Charter
Benefits Realization Planning
Programs
28. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Portfolio Components
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Review
29. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Setup
Project Domain
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
30. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Program Manager
Program Closure Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
31. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Integration Testing
Product Lifecycle
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Manager
32. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Benefits Realization
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Setup
33. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Portfolio Review Board
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Closure Phase
34. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Management
Program Manager
Program Domain
35. 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.
Benefits Transistion
Program Initiation Phase
Integration Testing
Program Setup Phase
36. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Project Management
Program Closure
Governance
Program Charter Contents
37. ___________ 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
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Pre-Program Preparations
Strong communication skills
38. 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
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
39. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
PMO
Strong communication skills
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Shutdown
40. 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 Setup Output
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Domain
Relationship among projects within a program
41. 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 Setup Phase
Program Approval Factor
Benefits Realization
Portfolio
42. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
43. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Management
Program Approval Factor
Program Information Flow
44. First lifecycle phase
Program Setup Output
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Pre-Program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits
45. A program must have more than one to function.
Components
Program Management
Pre-program Preparations
Main Program Phases Two of Five
46. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Initiation Phase
Program Charter Approval
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Any time
47. 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 infrastructure
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program
Parallel lifecycle to Program
48. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program Charter Contents
Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio Components
Process Groups
49. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Integration Testing
Project
Program infrastructure
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
50. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Components
Portfolio Review Board
Any time
Program Setup Phase