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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. Pre-Program Preparations






8. Fourth Phase of benefits management






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. Program Setup






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Program Closure






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 lifecycle.






29. Second lifecycle phase






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






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






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






33. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






34. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.






35. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






37. Third lifecycle phase






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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






42. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






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






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






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






46. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






48. Fifth lifecycle phase






49. 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






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