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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






4. Third phase of benefits management






5. First lifecycle phase






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. Delivery of Program Benefits






13. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






16. 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






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






18. First phase of benefits management






19. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






21. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






23. 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






24. Fourth lifecycle phase






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. 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.






27. ___________ 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.






28. 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






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






30. Management oversight of a program






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






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






33. Second phase of benefits management






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






35. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






38. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






39. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






44. Program Closure






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






46. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






47. 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.






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






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






50. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.