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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






3. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects






4. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






5. 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.






6. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.






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






8. First lifecycle phase






9. First phase of benefits management






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






11. 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.






12. Third phase of benefits management






13. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. Fourth lifecycle phase






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. Second phase of benefits management






24. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






25. Infrastructure (existing facilities and equipment) - Existing human resources - personnel administration (staffing/retention policies - etc.) - company work authorization systems - marketplace conditions - - stakeholder risk tolerances - political c






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






27. 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.






28. Fifth lifecycle phase






29. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






30. ___________ 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.






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






35. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






36. 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






37. Delivery of Program Benefits






38. Program Closure






39. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






42. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.






43. 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.






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






45. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.






46. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






47. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






48. Program Setup






49. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






50. 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