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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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






2. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






5. 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






6. Program Setup






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






19. 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






20. ___________ 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.






21. First lifecycle phase






22. Program Initiation






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






24. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






26. Program Closure






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






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






29. Fourth lifecycle phase






30. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. 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






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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. Management oversight of a program






46. 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.






47. 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






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






49. Second lifecycle phase






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