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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






2. Pre-Program Preparations






3. 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






4. 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.






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






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






7. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






9. Program Initiation






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






11. First lifecycle phase






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






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






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






15. Second lifecycle phase






16. 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.






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






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






19. ___________ 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.






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






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






22. 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.






23. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






30. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.






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






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






33. 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.






34. Delivery of Program Benefits






35. Third lifecycle phase






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






37. Second phase of benefits management






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






39. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






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






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.






42. Program Setup






43. 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






44. 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.






45. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.






46. Program is ended by ________






47. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






48. Program Closure






49. Fifth lifecycle phase






50. 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