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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






8. 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






9. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






11. 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






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






13. Third phase of benefits management






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






15. The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objective and benefits. It involves aligning multiple projects to achieve the program goals and allows for optimized or integrated cost - schedule - and effort.






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






17. 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






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






19. Program Setup






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






21. Delivery of Program Benefits






22. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






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






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






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






27. Third lifecycle phase






28. Second lifecycle phase






29. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






31. 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






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






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






34. Pre-Program Preparations






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






36. Understanding the strategic benefits of the program - Developing a plan to initiate the program - Defining the program objectives and their alignment with the organizational goals - Developing a high level business case demonstrating an understanding






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






38. First lifecycle phase






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






40. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Program Closure






46. 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.






47. Fourth lifecycle phase






48. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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