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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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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. 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
Program Management Plan Content
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Phase
2. 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 Management Responsibilities
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Management
3. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Portfolio Management
Benefits Realization
PMO
4. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Program Shutdown
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Domain interaction
Strong communication skills
5. 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.
Benefits Realization
Program Governance
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Three of Five
6. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Governance
Benefits Realization
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup Output
7. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Charter Contents
Product Lifecycle
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Three of Five
8. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Closure Phase Activities
Phase-Gate Reviews
Main Program Phases Five of Five
9. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Components
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Shutdown
10. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Process Groups
Program Domain
Program Setup Output
11. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Information Flow
Project Management
12. 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
Program Domain
Pre-Program Preparations
Steering Committee
13. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefits Realization
Program Initiation
Program Charter Contents
14. 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 Initiation
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Program Information Flow
15. ___________ 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 Setup Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Program
16. Program Initiation
Program Governance
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Manager
Benefits Realization Planning
17. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Project Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program begins
18. Third phase of benefits management
Process Groups
Program Domain
Benefits Management
Benefits Realization
19. Management oversight of a program
Phase-Gate Reviews
Governance
Program Approval Factor
Project Domain
20. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Portfolio Management
Benefits Management
Organizational Process Assets
21. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Project Management
Program Closure Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Benefits Transistion
22. Program Closure
Program begins
Programs end
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Setup
23. 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
Benefits Realization
Program Setup Output
Program Setup Phase
24. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Project
Portfolio Management
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Domain interaction
25. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Start
26. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Life Cycle
Organizational Process Assets
Program Closure Phase Activities
27. Program is ended by ________
Program Initiation Phase
Governance
Steering Committee
Process Groups
28. 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.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefit
Program Initiation Phase
Means of Governance
29. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefits Realization
Program Life Cycle
Main Program Phases Three of Five
30. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Means of Governance
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Phase Activity
31. A program must have more than one to function.
Pre-Program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Components
32. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
PMO
Portfolio
Benefits Management
33. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Programs end
Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
34. Second lifecycle phase
Benefit
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
35. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Start
36. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Benefits Management
Project
Portfolio Review Board
Relationship among projects within a program
37. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Closure
Benefits Identification
Programs end
Project Domain
38. 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 Manager
Program begins
Program Setup Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review
39. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Organizational Process Assets
Initiating and planning
Program Initiation Phase
Program infrastructure
40. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Setup Phase
Integration Testing
Organizational Process Assets
Program
41. 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.
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program infrastructure
Program Setup Phase Activity
42. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Process Groups
Process assets
Product Lifecycle
Benefit
43. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Domain
Project
Program Benefit Delivery
Programs
44. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Closure Phase Activities
Project
Programs end
45. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Enterprise environmental factor
Strong communication skills
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Organizational Process Assets
46. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Pre-Program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio
Phase-Gate Reviews
47. 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 Manager
Portfolio Review Board
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Initiation Phase
48. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Program Charter
Pre-Program Preparations
49. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Start
Program Setup
Program Life Cycle
50. 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 Initiation Phase Activity
Program Approval Factor
Program Setup Output
Portfolio Components