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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






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






5. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






7. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






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






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






10. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






15. Third phase of benefits management






16. Program Setup






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






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






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






20. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






21. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






22. 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.






23. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.






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






25. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






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






27. 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.






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. ___________ 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.






30. 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






31. Program Closure






32. Third lifecycle phase






33. 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






34. First phase of benefits management






35. 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






36. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






37. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






39. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






40. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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. Fourth lifecycle phase






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. First lifecycle phase






48. Program is ended by ________






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






50. Management oversight of a program