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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. Program Setup






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






5. 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






6. Third phase of benefits management






7. 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.






8. First phase of benefits management






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






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.






16. 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.






17. Second lifecycle phase






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






33. 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.






34. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






36. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






37. First lifecycle phase






38. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






40. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.






41. 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.






42. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.






43. Management oversight of a program






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






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






46. 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






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






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






49. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






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