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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






2. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






3. 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.






4. Pre-Program Preparations






5. Establishing a project governance structure to monitor and control the projects - Initiating projects in order to meet program objectives - Ensuring component deliverables meet the requirements - Analyzing the progress to plan - Identifying environme






6. 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.






7. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






8. Program Closure






9. First lifecycle phase






10. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






11. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






17. Third lifecycle phase






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






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






20. 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.






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.






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






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






24. Program Initiation






25. Fourth Phase of benefits management






26. Program Setup






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






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.






29. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.






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






31. Program is ended by ________






32. Fourth lifecycle phase






33. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






34. 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






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






36. Management oversight of a program






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






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






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






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






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






42. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.






43. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






47. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.






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






49. 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






50. 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