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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. 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
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program
Program Charter Approval
2. 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
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Transistion
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Management
3. 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
Program Management Responsibilities
Programs end
Program Closure Phase Activities
Programs
4. Third phase of benefits management
Benefits Realization
Steering Committee
Program Setup
Relationship among projects within a program
5. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Program
Strong communication skills
Main Program Phases Four of Five
6. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Charter Approval
Main Program Phases One of Five
7. 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
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
8. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Program Initiation
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Setup Phase
Integration Testing
9. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Realization Planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Programs end
Process assets
10. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Charter Contents
Program Approval Factor
Program
Phase-Gate Review Approach
11. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
PMO
Program Benefit Delivery
Benefits Identification
Program Charter Contents
12. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Closure
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Four of Five
13. Pre-Program Preparations
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Charter
Portfolio Management
Main Program Phases One of Five
14. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Manager
Program Setup Phase
Means of Governance
Program Initiation Phase Activity
15. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Phase-Gate Reviews
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Program Manager
16. 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
Program Initiation Phase
Portfolio
Program begins
17. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Benefits Realization Planning
Benefit
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management
18. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Programs
Benefits Realization Planning
Integration Testing
19. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Components
Pre-Program Preparations
Phase-Gate Reviews
Parallel lifecycle to Program
20. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Integration Testing
Program Charter
Program Charter Contents
Means of Governance
21. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefits Management
Program
22. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Program Initiation Phase
Project Management
Means of Governance
Project Domain
23. 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
Program Management Plan Content
Portfolio
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Initiation Phase
24. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Project
Program Charter Contents
Domain interaction
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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Setup
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program
26. 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.
Domain interaction
Program Charter Contents
Program Management
Enterprise environmental factor
27. ___________ 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 Charter Contents
Programs end
Program Management Responsibilities
28. 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
Program Domain
PMO
Program Approval Factor
Program Manager
29. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program begins
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Benefits Realization Planning
Project Management
30. Management oversight of a program
Program
Governance
Means of Governance
Program Management
31. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Phase-Gate Review
Programs
Program Benefit Delivery
Components
32. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Charter Approval
Pre-program Preparations
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefit
33. Second phase of benefits management
Program Start
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Approval Factor
Programs
34. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Benefits Management
Project Domain
Integration Testing
Program Closure Phase Activities
35. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Program Management
Benefits Transistion
Program Approval Factor
Benefits Realization
36. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Means of Governance
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Programs
Program Charter Approval
37. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Steering Committee
Relationship among projects within a program
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Closure Phase
38. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Review
Program Management Plan Content
Program Life Cycle
39. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Any time
Governance
Program Approval Factor
Benefits Analysis and Planning
40. 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
Portfolio
Program Closure Phase Activities
Project Management
Program Setup Phase Activity
41. Each one functions as a "go" or "no-go" decision point on the program as a whole. Performed to check the program performance against the planned criteria for exit from the phase that has just been completed - and to determine the readiness for procee
Benefits Management
Portfolio
Program Closure Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review
42. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Programs end
Process assets
Portfolio Management
43. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Project
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Governance
Benefits Identification
44. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Information Flow
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter Contents
45. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Any time
Strong communication skills
Benefits Management
46. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Realization Planning
Product Lifecycle
47. 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.
PMO
Pre-program Preparations
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Initiation Phase
48. 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 Closure
PMO
Program Setup Output
Initiating and planning
49. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Management Plan Content
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Domain
50. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Product Lifecycle
Strong communication skills
Means of Governance
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle