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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






4. 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






5. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






6. 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






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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






14. Program Closure






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






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






17. Third phase of benefits management






18. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






20. Second lifecycle phase






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






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. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






30. 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






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






32. First lifecycle phase






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






34. 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






35. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. Management oversight of a program






48. Second phase of benefits management






49. Pre-Program Preparations






50. 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