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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. 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
Benefits Management
Portfolio
Benefits Realization Planning
Relationship among projects within a program
2. Program Setup
Benefits Management
Program Management Plan Content
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Relationship among projects within a program
3. ___________ 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 begins
Portfolio
Program Setup Phase Activity
Programs end
4. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Portfolio Review Board
Benefit
Program Manager
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
5. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Enterprise environmental factor
Domain interaction
Portfolio Management
Governance
6. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Portfolio
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program
7. 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
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Charter Contents
Program Closure Phase Activity
8. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Pre-program Preparations
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Phase Activity
9. A program must have more than one to function.
Project Domain
Programs
Components
Process Groups
10. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Strong communication skills
Portfolio Components
11. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Benefits Realization Planning
Initiating and planning
Program Management Plan Content
Pre-Program Phase Activity
12. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Charter
Program Setup Phase
13. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Product Lifecycle
Program infrastructure
Benefits Transistion
Program Manager
14. 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
Program Initiation
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Relationship among projects within a program
15. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Portfolio Components
Steering Committee
Program Closure Phase
Portfolio Management
16. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Portfolio Components
Program begins
Initiating and planning
Program Start
17. 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
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
18. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Governance
Phase-Gate Review
Integration Testing
19. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Program
Pre-program Preparations
Program Information Flow
20. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter
Benefit
Process assets
21. 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.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Integration Testing
Program Setup Phase
22. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Benefits Realization
Benefits Management
23. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Setup
Phase-Gate Reviews
24. Program Closure
Program Setup Phase
Initiating and planning
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Pre-Program Preparations
25. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Project Domain
Program Manager
Program Domain
26. Vision and key objectives for success criteria - Expected outcomes and benefits - Program assumptions and constraints - High-level program plan - Known risks and issues - Identifications of suitable business change managers with the ability to influe
Program Charter Contents
Integration Testing
Governance
Program Shutdown
27. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program
Program Setup
Program Manager
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
28. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Project Management
29. 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 Initiation Phase
Program
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Domain
30. 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 Approval Factor
Program Charter Contents
Program Closure Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
31. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Setup Output
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup Phase
Program Shutdown
32. First phase of benefits management
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program
Benefits Identification
33. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup Phase
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup
Program Shutdown
34. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Program Setup Phase
Program infrastructure
Process assets
Program Charter Approval
35. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Initiation Phase
36. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Closure Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup Phase
37. 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 Closure Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
Program
Strong communication skills
38. Second lifecycle phase
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Manager
Programs
Program Initiation
39. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter
Program Management Plan Content
40. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Life Cycle
Program Closure Phase
Enterprise environmental factor
41. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Governance
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Initiating and planning
42. Program is ended by ________
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Setup Phase
Steering Committee
Benefits Realization
43. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Charter Approval
Strong communication skills
Benefits Management
Program Life Cycle
44. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Program Initiation Phase
Steering Committee
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Phase-Gate Reviews
45. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase
Program Approval Factor
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Identification
46. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Closure Phase
Project Domain
Means of Governance
Governance
47. 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
Main Program Phases Four of Five
PMO
Program Management Plan Content
48. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Governance
Program Setup Output
Benefits Realization Planning
Delivery of Program Benefits
49. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Program Setup Phase Activity
Project
Project Management
Program Initiation
50. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Product Lifecycle