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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Benefits Realization
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Manager
Governance
2. First phase of benefits management
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Identification
Program Management Plan Content
Organizational Process Assets
3. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Portfolio Components
Program Information Flow
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Relationship among projects within a program
4. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Program Setup Phase
Any time
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Shutdown
5. First lifecycle phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Pre-Program Preparations
Any time
Program Setup Phase
6. 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.
Program Initiation Phase
Product Lifecycle
Pre-program Preparations
Phase-Gate Review
7. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Integration Testing
Program Life Cycle
Program Setup
8. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Setup Phase
Project Domain
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Transistion
9. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Phase-Gate Review
Program Management Plan Content
Integration Testing
Program Closure Phase
10. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Management
Benefits Management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
11. 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
Program Closure Phase Activity
Programs end
Benefits Realization
Program Setup Phase Activity
12. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Shutdown
Program Approval Factor
Program Setup Phase
Program Life Cycle
13. Program Setup
Program Closure
Program Charter Contents
Organizational Process Assets
Main Program Phases Three of Five
14. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program begins
Program Charter Approval
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
15. 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.
Program Management
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
16. 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
Means of Governance
Benefits Identification
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Benefit
17. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Integration Testing
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Manager
18. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Management
Program Closure Phase
Program
Program infrastructure
19. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Initiation
Benefits Management
20. Second phase of benefits management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Programs end
Program Setup Phase Activity
Project Management
21. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Project Domain
Portfolio Review Board
Program Manager
Program Information Flow
22. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Closure
Components
Program Charter
Program Management Responsibilities
23. Fifth lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
Program Closure
Programs
24. 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.
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Review Board
25. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Management Plan Content
Portfolio
Relationship among projects within a program
Program begins
26. Program is ended by ________
Portfolio Management
Project
Benefits Identification
Steering Committee
27. Third phase of benefits management
Program Initiation Phase
Strong communication skills
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Realization
28. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefits Management
Portfolio Review Board
Relationship among projects within a program
Strong communication skills
29. Second lifecycle phase
Benefits Management
Program Initiation
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization
30. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Portfolio Management
Process assets
Program Benefit Delivery
31. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Initiation
Program Initiation Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Charter Approval
32. 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
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Closure
33. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Portfolio Management
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program infrastructure
34. 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.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program infrastructure
Program Setup Output
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
35. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Strong communication skills
Program Governance
Program
36. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Start
Product Lifecycle
Program Closure Phase
37. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Any time
Program
Benefits Management
38. 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
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Contents
Program Management
Program Domain
39. Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Identification
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Main Program Phases Four of Five
40. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Initiating and planning
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Benefit Delivery
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
41. Third lifecycle phase
Enterprise environmental factor
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup
Program Information Flow
42. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Process Groups
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase
43. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Closure
Benefit
Programs end
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
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases One of Five
Organizational Process Assets
45. Program Initiation
Domain interaction
Any time
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Benefits Transistion
46. 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.
Program Information Flow
Benefits Identification
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Charter Approval
47. 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
PMO
Program Shutdown
Program Initiation
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
48. 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
Project Management
Program Approval Factor
PMO
Program begins
49. 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
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Approval Factor
Program Initiation Phase
50. 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.
Benefit
Program Initiation Phase
Program Life Cycle
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase