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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Pre-Program Preparations






2. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






3. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






11. Program Setup






12. 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






13. 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






14. Management oversight of a program






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






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






17. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. First phase of benefits management






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






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






27. 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






28. First lifecycle phase






29. Program Closure






30. 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.






31. 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






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






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






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






35. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






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






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. Second phase of benefits management






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






47. 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






48. Second lifecycle phase






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






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