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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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1. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program begins
Enterprise environmental factor
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Organizational Process Assets
2. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Integration Testing
Benefits Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup Output
3. Management oversight of a program
Portfolio
Program Setup Output
Pre-program Preparations
Governance
4. Program Setup
Program Setup Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Closure Phase Activity
Enterprise environmental factor
5. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Program Initiation
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Setup Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Four of Five
6. 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.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Portfolio Review Board
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio Components
7. 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.
Means of Governance
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Initiation Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
8. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Life Cycle
Process Groups
Program Benefit Delivery
Program infrastructure
9. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Integration Testing
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Charter
Components
10. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program
Phase-Gate Reviews
11. 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
Portfolio Management
Program Manager
Program Charter Contents
Project
12. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Identification
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Realization Planning
Programs
13. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup Phase
Project
Program Setup Phase
14. 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
Benefits Identification
Program
Program Closure Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
15. Program Initiation
Means of Governance
Organizational Process Assets
Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
16. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Governance
Relationship among projects within a program
Portfolio Management
17. Fifth lifecycle phase
Any time
Program Closure
Program Approval Factor
Benefits Identification
18. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Product Lifecycle
Phase-Gate Review
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
19. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Portfolio Components
Process Groups
Domain interaction
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
20. 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
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program begins
21. ___________ 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 Closure Phase
Project Domain
Programs end
Relationship among projects within a program
22. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Charter Approval
Any time
Program begins
23. 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 begins
Phase-Gate Review
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Realization
24. Second lifecycle phase
Program Domain
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Initiation
Enterprise environmental factor
25. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
Phase-Gate Review
26. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Contents
Program Information Flow
Program Closure Phase Activities
27. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Benefits Transistion
Organizational Process Assets
Strong communication skills
Program Life Cycle
28. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Strong communication skills
Program Charter Contents
Organizational Process Assets
Program Charter Approval
29. 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.
Product Lifecycle
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure
30. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Program Governance
Benefit
Programs
Integration Testing
31. 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.
Benefits Identification
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program infrastructure
32. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Means of Governance
Organizational Process Assets
Program Approval Factor
33. 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 Manager
Program Initiation
Process Groups
Program Shutdown
34. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Realization Planning
35. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Programs
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup Output
36. 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 Closure Phase
Project Management
Program Management Plan Content
Program Life Cycle
37. Second phase of benefits management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Integration Testing
Program Charter Contents
38. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Governance
Any time
Program Start
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
39. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio
Program Closure Phase
40. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Benefits Identification
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
41. Program is ended by ________
Program
Phase-Gate Review
Steering Committee
Program Setup Phase
42. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Any time
Portfolio
Program Setup Phase
Program Governance
43. 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
Process Groups
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Process assets
Phase-Gate Review
44. 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.
Organizational Process Assets
Governance
Program Charter
Program Information Flow
45. 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.
Enterprise environmental factor
Portfolio Components
Initiating and planning
Pre-program Preparations
46. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Domain
Means of Governance
Components
Programs end
47. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Approval
Program Setup Output
Components
48. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Initiation Phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
49. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Portfolio Management
Program infrastructure
Project Management
Program Setup Output
50. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Closure Phase
Project Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity