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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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 Setup Output
Program Manager
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Benefits Identification
2. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Closure Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Charter Approval
3. Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter Contents
Program Charter Approval
Project
4. Second phase of benefits management
Benefit
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
5. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Charter Contents
Program Closure
Program Information Flow
6. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Product Lifecycle
Program Life Cycle
7. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Charter Approval
Program infrastructure
Program
Program Approval Factor
8. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Benefits Realization Planning
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Benefit Delivery
9. 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
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Charter Contents
10. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Benefits Management
Program
Project Domain
Program Domain
11. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.
Program
Program infrastructure
Programs end
Program Shutdown
12. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Any time
Program Charter Approval
Program Life Cycle
13. 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
Program
Portfolio Review Board
Components
Portfolio
14. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program begins
Program Information Flow
Program Closure Phase
15. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio Management
Any time
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
16. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program infrastructure
17. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Closure Phase
18. 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
Program Setup Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Process Groups
Steering Committee
19. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
Program Governance
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
20. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Portfolio Components
Process assets
Program Charter Approval
Benefits Management
21. A program must have more than one to function.
Benefits Identification
Components
Program
Benefits Realization
22. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Means of Governance
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Transistion
23. 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
Initiating and planning
Phase-Gate Review
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
24. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Program
Product Lifecycle
25. First phase of benefits management
Programs
Benefits Identification
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases Five of Five
26. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Process assets
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Enterprise environmental factor
27. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Benefits Realization
Benefits Management
Process assets
Any time
28. 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 Setup Phase
Program
Program Initiation
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
29. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Portfolio Management
Project Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Closure Phase Activities
30. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Realization Planning
Steering Committee
Project Management
31. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Pre-program Preparations
Steering Committee
Program Closure Phase Activity
32. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Portfolio Review Board
Program Manager
Program Life Cycle
Program Management Plan Content
33. 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
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Identification
Pre-Program Phase Activity
34. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Program Setup Output
Program infrastructure
PMO
35. 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.
Programs
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Governance
Program Information Flow
36. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Program Setup Phase
37. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Process Groups
PMO
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio Review Board
38. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Portfolio Components
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.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Initiation Phase
PMO
40. 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
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Closure Phase
41. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Components
Program Information Flow
Program
Any time
42. Third phase of benefits management
Benefits Realization
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Identification
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
43. 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
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase Activity
44. 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.
Components
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Transistion
Program Setup Phase
45. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Benefits Identification
Relationship among projects within a program
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Realization
46. Program Setup
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Charter Approval
Benefit
Organizational Process Assets
47. 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
Components
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Approval
Program Management Responsibilities
48. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Means of Governance
Program Closure Phase Activities
Portfolio
Program Shutdown
49. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Programs
Integration Testing
Benefits Management
Components
50. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Phase-Gate Review