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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Program is ended by ________






3. 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






4. Third lifecycle phase






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 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






8. Second phase of benefits management






9. 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






10. Second lifecycle phase






11. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






12. Fifth lifecycle phase






13. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






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






16. First lifecycle phase






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






18. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






20. Program Closure






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






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






23. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






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






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






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






27. Third phase of benefits management






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






29. 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






30. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.






31. Management oversight of a program






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






33. 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






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






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






36. Program Initiation






37. 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.






38. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






41. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






42. 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






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.






44. Fourth Phase of benefits management






45. 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






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






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






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






49. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






50. ___________ 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.