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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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1. 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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Programs
Steering Committee
Program Closure Phase Activity
2. First lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Information Flow
Relationship among projects within a program
3. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Management
Pre-Program Preparations
4. 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 Closure
Program Approval Factor
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Benefit Delivery
5. 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
Product Lifecycle
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Steering Committee
Program Setup Phase Activity
6. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Integration Testing
Program Initiation
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
7. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio
8. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Realization Planning
Program
Program Closure Phase Activity
9. Program Initiation
Process Groups
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Setup Output
Main Program Phases Two of Five
10. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Any time
Product Lifecycle
Program Life Cycle
11. ___________ 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
Programs end
Program Charter Contents
Benefit
12. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
Program Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
13. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Closure
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Identification
Program Manager
14. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Means of Governance
Program Management
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Realization Planning
15. Third lifecycle phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Strong communication skills
Pre-program Preparations
Program Setup
16. 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
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Governance
Program infrastructure
17. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Programs
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
18. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Management
Domain interaction
Product Lifecycle
Phase-Gate Review Approach
19. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Manager
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Information Flow
20. 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.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Phase-Gate Review
21. 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.
Benefit
Phase-Gate Review
Program Manager
Program Information Flow
22. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Portfolio Components
Program begins
Programs
23. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization Planning
Project Domain
Components
24. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Shutdown
Project Domain
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Governance
25. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Approval Factor
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program begins
Program Charter Contents
26. 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 Charter Approval
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program infrastructure
Program Setup
27. Management oversight of a program
Process Groups
Program Setup
Programs end
Governance
28. Program Closure
Program Information Flow
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Shutdown
29. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Steering Committee
Program
30. 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 Governance
Benefits Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Organizational Process Assets
31. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefits Management
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup Phase
Program Governance
32. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Programs end
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Start
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
33. 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
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Management Responsibilities
Phase-Gate Review
Strong communication skills
34. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Project
Portfolio Review Board
Process Groups
35. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Domain
Phase-Gate Review
Program Information Flow
Programs
36. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Any time
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Benefits Management
Portfolio
37. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Project
Project Management
Program Benefit Delivery
38. 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
Integration Testing
Programs
39. Program Setup
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization Planning
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Portfolio
40. 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
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Life Cycle
Portfolio
Program begins
41. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.
Program Approval Factor
Program Governance
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Main Program Phases One of Five
42. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Management
Program Charter
Program Closure Phase Activities
43. 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
Initiating and planning
Program
Portfolio Components
44. 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.
Program Management
Program Governance
Program Closure Phase
Program Charter Contents
45. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Process assets
Program Setup
Portfolio Components
Program Closure Phase
46. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Enterprise environmental factor
Integration Testing
Domain interaction
Programs
47. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Program Information Flow
Program Benefit Delivery
Strong communication skills
Program Shutdown
48. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Charter Contents
Project Management
Program Setup Phase
Program Benefit Delivery
49. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Identification
Program Life Cycle
Programs end
50. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Programs end
Program Setup Output
Program Initiation Phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity