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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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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






2. Fourth lifecycle phase






3. Pre-Program Preparations






4. Second phase of benefits management






5. Fifth lifecycle phase






6. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.






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






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






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






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






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.






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






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






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






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






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






17. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






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






19. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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.






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






22. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






24. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






25. First phase of benefits management






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






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.






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






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






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






31. Third lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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.






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






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






38. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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.






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






41. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






42. Third phase of benefits management






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






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.






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






46. Program Setup






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






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.






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






50. Organizational structure - culture and processes.