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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects






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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






9. 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






10. Program Closure






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






12. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






14. Management oversight of a program






15. 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.






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






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. 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.






19. Fifth lifecycle phase






20. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






22. 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.






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






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






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






26. First lifecycle phase






27. Program Initiation






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Second phase of benefits management






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






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






35. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






37. 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






38. Program is ended by ________






39. Third lifecycle phase






40. Second lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Program Setup






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






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






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