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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. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






2. 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






3. Program Setup






4. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






5. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. 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






14. First phase of benefits management






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






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






17. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






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






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






21. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






22. 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.






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






24. Management oversight of a program






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






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






27. 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






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






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






30. Third lifecycle phase






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






39. Fourth Phase of benefits management






40. Second phase of benefits management






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. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






43. Fourth lifecycle phase






44. Fifth lifecycle phase






45. 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






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






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






48. 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






49. ___________ 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.






50. 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