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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






2. 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.






3. Pre-Program Preparations






4. First phase of benefits management






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






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Program Initiation






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






11. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






13. 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






14. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






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






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






17. Second phase of benefits management






18. ___________ 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.






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






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






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






22. First lifecycle phase






23. 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






24. 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






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






26. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






27. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






28. 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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






33. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






34. Fifth lifecycle phase






35. Fourth Phase of benefits management






36. Program Setup






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






38. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






39. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






40. 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






41. 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






42. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Third phase of benefits management






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






49. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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