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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. 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.
Program Start
Program begins
Program Setup Phase
Project Domain
2. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
PMO
Domain interaction
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter Approval
3. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Product Lifecycle
Program Charter
Project Management
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
4. 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
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio Components
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
5. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Life Cycle
Domain interaction
Program Setup Output
Process Groups
6. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Program Start
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup Phase Activity
7. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Product Lifecycle
Process assets
Program Start
Program Closure
8. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Portfolio Review Board
Program infrastructure
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Domain interaction
9. Pre-Program Preparations
Enterprise environmental factor
Main Program Phases One of Five
Project Management
Program Approval Factor
10. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Information Flow
Initiating and planning
Portfolio Components
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
11. Program Initiation
Benefits Management
Integration Testing
Strong communication skills
Main Program Phases Two of Five
12. Program Closure
Integration Testing
Delivery of Program Benefits
Portfolio Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
13. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefits Realization
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Strong communication skills
14. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Integration Testing
Benefits Management
Portfolio Components
15. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Manager
Domain interaction
Program Start
16. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Closure
Benefits Management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Project Domain
17. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Program Closure
Process assets
Program Initiation
Phase-Gate Review Approach
18. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Charter
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Phase-Gate Reviews
Main Program Phases Four of Five
19. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Benefit Delivery
Enterprise environmental factor
Process Groups
Program Closure Phase
20. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Governance
Main Program Phases One of Five
Project Domain
21. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
Program Management Responsibilities
Relationship among projects within a program
22. 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 Start
Benefits Management
Relationship among projects within a program
23. Fifth lifecycle phase
Benefits Realization Planning
Enterprise environmental factor
Portfolio Management
Program Closure
24. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
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
Project Domain
Program Initiation
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Main Program Phases Three of Five
26. ___________ 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.
Initiating and planning
Program Manager
Programs end
Main Program Phases Three of Five
27. Third phase of benefits management
Project
Program infrastructure
Benefits Realization
Benefits Transistion
28. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Benefit Delivery
Project
Portfolio
Benefits Identification
29. Second phase of benefits management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Shutdown
Process Groups
Benefits Analysis and Planning
30. Program Setup
Portfolio Components
Program Information Flow
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Charter Contents
31. 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 Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Information Flow
Program Charter Approval
Program Setup Phase
32. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Benefits Realization Planning
PMO
33. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Program
Program Closure Phase Activities
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Organizational Process Assets
34. 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 infrastructure
Means of Governance
Benefits Realization
Program Benefit Delivery
35. 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
Program infrastructure
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio
36. 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
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Main Program Phases Two of Five
PMO
37. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Portfolio
38. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Governance
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Management
39. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Shutdown
Portfolio Review Board
40. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Program Charter
Steering Committee
Benefit
Pre-Program Preparations
41. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Realization Planning
42. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Domain interaction
43. 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.
Pre-program Preparations
Program Charter Contents
Integration Testing
Program Closure Phase
44. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Portfolio
Program Setup Phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
45. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Enterprise environmental factor
Program begins
Organizational Process Assets
46. 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
Benefits Management
Program Closure
Program
Main Program Phases One of Five
47. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio Management
Program begins
Phase-Gate Reviews
48. 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 Initiation Phase
Programs
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Portfolio Components
49. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Program Closure Phase
Program Charter Contents
Governance
50. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Closure
Program Start
Program infrastructure