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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






2. 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.






3. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






4. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






6. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






7. 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.






8. 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






9. 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






10. Third lifecycle phase






11. 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






12. First phase of benefits management






13. 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.






14. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






15. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.






16. Second lifecycle phase






17. ___________ 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.






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






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






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






21. Program Closure






22. 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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Delivery of Program Benefits






35. 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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






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






41. 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






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






43. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






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






45. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






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






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






48. Third phase of benefits management






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






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