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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 ______________________.
Benefit
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Governance
2. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Closure Phase Activities
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Initiation Phase
Program Closure
3. 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 Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Management Plan Content
Program Life Cycle
Project
4. 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.
Project Domain
Program Initiation Phase
Portfolio Review Board
Initiating and planning
5. A program must have more than one to function.
Components
Initiating and planning
Program Approval Factor
Phase-Gate Review Approach
6. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
PMO
Portfolio
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Setup Phase
7. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Project
Project Management
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Closure Phase Activity
8. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Benefits Identification
Portfolio
Phase-Gate Review
Benefits Management
9. Program Initiation
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Management Plan Content
10. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Project Management
Portfolio Components
Phase-Gate Review
Organizational Process Assets
11. First lifecycle phase
Program Life Cycle
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program
Pre-Program Preparations
12. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter Contents
Initiating and planning
Program Charter
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
13. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Portfolio Review Board
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Closure Phase Activities
14. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Process assets
Program Initiation
Program Management Plan Content
Program Closure Phase Activity
15. Second lifecycle phase
Program Initiation
Pre-Program Preparations
Delivery of Program Benefits
PMO
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.
Program Closure
Program Setup Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Program Approval Factor
17. 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 Shutdown
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Management
Product Lifecycle
18. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Benefit
Program begins
Project Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
19. ___________ 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.
Programs end
Portfolio Management
Program Initiation Phase
PMO
20. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Program Management Plan Content
Program begins
Program Setup
21. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Setup
Program Domain
Program Management Plan Content
Governance
22. 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.
Program Closure Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Closure
Program Setup Phase
23. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Benefits Identification
Domain interaction
Any time
Program
24. 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
Program Setup Output
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase Activity
Project
25. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefit
Programs end
Benefits Management
PMO
26. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio
Integration Testing
Enterprise environmental factor
27. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Benefit Delivery
Benefits Realization Planning
Portfolio
Program Charter Approval
28. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Initiating and planning
Portfolio Management
Program Setup
Project Domain
29. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Manager
Pre-Program Preparations
Any time
30. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program
Project Domain
31. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Steering Committee
Benefits Identification
Program Charter
Benefits Realization Planning
32. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Management Responsibilities
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Closure Phase
Program Start
33. 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.
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Information Flow
Benefits Transistion
Process assets
34. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Approval
Steering Committee
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
35. Third lifecycle phase
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Setup
Program Charter Approval
Program
36. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Management
Programs end
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefits Identification
37. Second phase of benefits management
Governance
Enterprise environmental factor
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Analysis and Planning
38. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Setup Output
Governance
Project
39. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Means of Governance
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
40. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Organizational Process Assets
Program Initiation Phase Activity
41. 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.
Benefits Management
Program Management
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Three of Five
42. Program Setup
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Benefits Realization
43. 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
Any time
Process Groups
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
44. 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.
Initiating and planning
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
45. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Transistion
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Benefit Delivery
46. Program is ended by ________
Steering Committee
Program
Program Information Flow
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
47. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Process Groups
PMO
Program
Program begins
48. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Initiating and planning
Any time
Main Program Phases Five of Five
49. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Closure
Program Initiation Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
50. 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
Program Setup Output
Portfolio
Project Domain
Program Initiation Phase Activity