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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. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Charter
Program Management Plan Content
Main Program Phases Four of Five
2. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Manager
Governance
Benefits Realization Planning
3. 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
Integration Testing
PMO
Program Closure Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
4. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Portfolio Components
Programs
Program Charter Contents
5. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio Review Board
Benefits Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Charter Contents
6. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Management
Program Closure
Any time
7. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Manager
Program Management Plan Content
Project Management
8. First lifecycle phase
Program Management Responsibilities
Means of Governance
Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio Review Board
9. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Means of Governance
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio Management
10. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Program Management Plan Content
Integration Testing
Program Initiation
Means of Governance
11. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Realization
Steering Committee
12. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Strong communication skills
Program Manager
Components
Domain interaction
13. 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 Realization Planning
Program Setup Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Setup Phase
14. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Initiation Phase Activity
15. Second lifecycle phase
Product Lifecycle
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Initiation
Program Charter Contents
16. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Project Domain
Program Domain
Portfolio Management
Program Charter Contents
17. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Setup
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program
Governance
18. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Approval Factor
19. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Initiating and planning
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Realization Planning
20. Identification - monitoring and control of the inter-dependencies between the projects; Dealing with the escalated issues among the projects that compromise the program; and tracking the contribution of each project and the non-project work to the co
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Management Responsibilities
Portfolio Review Board
21. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Pre-program Preparations
Program Initiation Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Any time
22. 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 Shutdown
Program Management
Program Setup
Portfolio Review Board
23. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Project
Benefits Management
Project Domain
24. 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.
Portfolio Components
Program Setup Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Phase-Gate Review Approach
25. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Manager
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Portfolio Review Board
26. Third lifecycle phase
Program infrastructure
Product Lifecycle
Program Setup
Enterprise environmental factor
27. 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
Program Benefit Delivery
Pre-program Preparations
Program infrastructure
28. Program Closure
Pre-program Preparations
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Start
Main Program Phases Five of Five
29. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Program Closure
Any time
Benefits Transistion
Parallel lifecycle to Program
30. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Identification
Program Closure Phase Activities
31. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Information Flow
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Closure Phase Activities
32. 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
Any time
Governance
Program Setup Output
33. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Charter
Program Manager
34. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program Charter Contents
Pre-program Preparations
Portfolio Components
Programs end
35. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Program Management
Project Domain
Pre-program Preparations
36. 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 Benefit Delivery
Program Shutdown
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Governance
37. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Closure Phase
38. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Benefits Transistion
Process assets
Program Charter Contents
39. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Benefit
Pre-program Preparations
Benefits Identification
Program Management Responsibilities
40. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Any time
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases One of Five
41. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Program Charter Approval
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
42. Second phase of benefits management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Benefits Identification
Benefits Analysis and Planning
43. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Process Groups
Means of Governance
Program Benefit Delivery
44. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Integration Testing
Program Governance
Program Management Plan Content
Delivery of Program Benefits
45. First phase of benefits management
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Management Responsibilities
Steering Committee
Benefits Identification
46. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Setup Phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
47. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Any time
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Four of Five
48. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Benefits Realization
49. ___________ 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.
Portfolio Components
Program begins
Program Closure Phase Activity
Programs end
50. Pre-Program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Phase-Gate Review
Main Program Phases One of Five