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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Pre-program Preparations
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
2. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Product Lifecycle
Program begins
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Charter Contents
3. Management oversight of a program
Governance
Program Closure Phase
Steering Committee
Pre-Program Preparations
4. 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
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Management
Program Setup Phase Activity
5. 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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio Review Board
PMO
Program Life Cycle
6. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Process assets
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
7. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Manager
Benefits Realization Planning
Benefits Transistion
8. 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.
Benefits Transistion
Portfolio Review Board
Program Domain
Main Program Phases Three of Five
9. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Program
Process assets
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
10. 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
Steering Committee
Pre-program Preparations
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
11. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Programs end
Program Charter
Pre-program Preparations
Program Life Cycle
12. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Pre-program Preparations
Benefits Realization
Delivery of Program Benefits
Phase-Gate Review Approach
13. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Program
Benefits Transistion
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio
14. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Program Life Cycle
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Shutdown
Program Manager
15. 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
Program Shutdown
Phase-Gate Review
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program
16. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Approval Factor
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefits Realization
Any time
17. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Portfolio Components
Integration Testing
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Benefits Management
18. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Components
Project Management
Benefits Management
Program Closure Phase
19. 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.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio
Pre-program Preparations
Project Domain
20. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program Charter Approval
Governance
Program Governance
Program
21. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Charter
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Management
Program Closure
22. ___________ 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.
Program Manager
Process assets
Programs end
Organizational Process Assets
23. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Program Manager
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Initiation Phase
24. 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.
Program Closure
Program Management
PMO
Program Initiation Phase
25. 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.
Portfolio
Program Management
Program Governance
Program Start
26. Fifth lifecycle phase
Project Domain
Program
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Closure
27. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Management Responsibilities
Means of Governance
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
28. Program Closure
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Enterprise environmental factor
29. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Program Start
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Domain interaction
30. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Process Groups
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program begins
31. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Domain interaction
Portfolio Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Any time
32. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Program infrastructure
33. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Components
Process Groups
Initiating and planning
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
34. 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
Portfolio Management
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Shutdown
Pre-Program Phase Activity
35. 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
Program Approval Factor
Product Lifecycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
36. Program Setup
Program Initiation
Program Charter Approval
Program Information Flow
Main Program Phases Three of Five
37. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Charter Contents
Program
Program Closure Phase
Program Domain
38. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Setup Output
Program Closure
Program
Enterprise environmental factor
39. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Project Domain
Program Domain
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase Activities
40. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Phase
Program
Benefits Analysis and Planning
41. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Program Manager
Program Charter Contents
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Management Plan Content
42. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Portfolio Components
Program Setup Phase Activity
Benefits Transistion
Governance
43. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Closure Phase
Product Lifecycle
Program infrastructure
Main Program Phases One of Five
44. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Governance
Program Governance
45. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Information Flow
Benefits Management
Integration Testing
Process Groups
46. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Benefit Delivery
47. 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
Program Charter Contents
Program Governance
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Management Plan Content
48. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Components
Program Benefit Delivery
Steering Committee
Program Management Plan Content
49. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
Portfolio Management
Program Information Flow
Initiating and planning
50. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Programs
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefits Transistion