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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. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Life Cycle
Portfolio
Portfolio
2. 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
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Portfolio
3. Program Setup
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
4. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program begins
Any time
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Charter Approval
5. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Life Cycle
Product Lifecycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
6. 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.
Project Domain
Program Initiation Phase
Program
Pre-program Preparations
7. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Project Management
Program begins
Program Domain
Phase-Gate Reviews
8. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Phase-Gate Review
Components
Program Charter Contents
9. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Review
Project Management
10. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Realization
11. Projects related only by a shared client - technology - seller - or resources - A collection of components (i.e. projects - programs - portfolios - and other work such as maintenance and related ongoing operations) that are grouped together to facili
Portfolio
Benefits Analysis and Planning
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
12. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Benefits Realization Planning
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Governance
Program
13. 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 Setup Phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
Governance
14. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Pre-program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
Project
15. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter Approval
Benefits Management
16. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Portfolio
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Management
Process assets
17. Delivery of Program Benefits
Project Management
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Information Flow
Phase-Gate Reviews
18. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Management Plan Content
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Integration Testing
Program Information Flow
19. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Program Management
Domain interaction
Program Setup
Program Setup Phase Activity
20. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Delivery of Program Benefits
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Domain
21. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program Manager
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
Portfolio Components
22. 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.
Portfolio Review Board
Program Management
Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Five of Five
23. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Start
24. Management oversight of a program
Program Closure
Portfolio
Governance
Process Groups
25. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Integration Testing
Benefits Management
Means of Governance
Initiating and planning
26. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Components
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Means of Governance
27. 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
Means of Governance
Domain interaction
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure
28. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio Components
Benefit
29. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Program Management Plan Content
Benefits Management
Project
Means of Governance
30. Third lifecycle phase
Benefit
Program Start
Means of Governance
Program Setup
31. 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
Initiating and planning
Program Approval Factor
Program Domain
32. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Benefits Realization
Portfolio Management
Programs
Benefits Identification
33. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Management
Program begins
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Initiation Phase
34. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Components
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Charter
35. 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.
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Components
Program Charter
Pre-program Preparations
36. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Management
Organizational Process Assets
Program Management Plan Content
37. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup Phase
Integration Testing
38. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Management
39. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Process Groups
Benefits Management
Program Domain
40. Second phase of benefits management
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Benefits Management
41. 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.
Strong communication skills
Program Management
Program Domain
Benefits Management
42. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Charter
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Domain interaction
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
43. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Means of Governance
PMO
44. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Information Flow
Program Closure
Product Lifecycle
Program Initiation Phase
45. 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 Benefit Delivery
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Manager
Program Governance
46. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Governance
Programs
Portfolio
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
47. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Means of Governance
Components
Benefit
Program Setup Phase
48. 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 Information Flow
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter Contents
49. ___________ 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.
Program Manager
Programs end
Program Governance
Strong communication skills
50. 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
Program Setup Phase
Governance
Process assets
Phase-Gate Review