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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Resource Leveling
Risk Breakdown Structure
Decision Tree Analysis
Project Scope Statement
2. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Earned Value
Path Convergence
Most Likely Duration
Optimistic Duration
3. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Secondary Risk
Control Account
Risk Management Plan
Program Management Office
4. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Portfolio Balancing
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Code of Accounts
To-Complete Performance Index
5. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Level of Effort
Estimate to Complete
S-Curve Analysis
Program Management
6. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Decomposition
Bottom-up Estimating
Change Control
Change Control System
7. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Predecessor Activity
Portfolio
Schedule Management Plan
Change Request
8. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Cost Variance
Program
Project Scope Statement
S-Curve Analysis
9. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Effort
Performing Organization
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Level of Effort
10. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Project Scope Statement
Risk Breakdown Structure
To-Complete Performance Index
11. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Control Account
Fast Tracking
Critical Path Method
Human Resource Plan
12. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Total Float
Change Control System
Start-to-Start
Estimate at Completion
13. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
S-Curve Analysis
Resource Leveling
Path Convergence
Risk Acceptance
14. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Risk
Trigger Condition
Corrective Action
Stakeholder
15. A technique used to estimate cost or duration by applying an average of optimistic - pessimistic - and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates.
Level of Effort
Three-Point Estimate
Schedule Compression
Code of Accounts
16. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Project Life Cycle
Assumption
Planned Value
Defect Repair
17. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Corrective Action
Late Start Date
Pessimistic Duration
Procurement Management Plan
18. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Schedule Compression
Threat
Human Resource Plan
Opportunity
19. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Communication Management Plan
Product Life Cycle
Program Management Office
Project Schedule
20. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Risk Category
Summary Activity
Variance at Completion
Critical Path Method
21. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that is required to be produced to complete a process - phase - or project.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Logical Relationship
Deliverable
Code of Accounts
22. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Activity
Critical Chain Method
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Resource Calendar
23. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Backward Pass
Data Date
Bottom-up Estimating
Procurement Management Plan
24. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Program Management
Project Calendar
Logical Relationship
Project Management Plan
25. Plans - processes - policies - procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization.
Organizational Process Assets
Milestone
Predecessor Activity
Risk Register
26. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Total Float
Portfolio
Planned Value
Quality Management Plan
27. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Path Convergence
Rolling Wave Planning
Early Finish Date
Resource Calendar
28. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Schedule Baseline
Budget at Completion
Earned Value Management
Risk Transference
29. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Finish-to-Start
Portfolio Management
Project Management
Most Likely Duration
30. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Product Life Cycle
Analogous Estimating
Assumption
Pessimistic Duration
31. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Lead
Level of Effort
Schedule Baseline
Control Account
32. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Risk Category
Program
Activity
Analogous Estimating
33. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Optimistic Duration
Requirements Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Portfolio Management
34. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Schedule Variance
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk Avoidance
Schedule Performance Index
35. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Variance Analysis
Critical Path Activity
Project Scope
Enterprise Environmental Factors
36. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Risk Avoidance
Project Calendar
Variance at Completion
Schedule Compression
37. A group of potential causes of risk.
Risk Category
Decision Tree Analysis
Portfolio
Resource Leveling
38. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Resource Leveling
Risk Register
Preventive Action
Control Account
39. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Procurement Management Plan
Forward Pass
Estimate to Complete
40. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Change Control
Start-to-Start
Quality Management Plan
Performing Organization
41. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
What-If Sce
Gantt Chart
Summary Activity
Critical Path Method
42. A technique for estimating the duration or cost of an activity or a project - using historical data from a similar activity or project.
Successor Activity
Total Float
Analogous Estimating
Activity
43. A schedule compression technique in which activities or phases normally done in sequence are performed in parallel for at least a portion of their duration.
Finish-to-Finish
Fast Tracking
Lag
Predecessor Activity
44. A representation of the plan for executing the project's activities including durations - dependencies and other planning information - used to produce a project schedule along with other scheduling artifacts.
Decomposition
Change Control System
Project Scope
Schedule Model
45. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Portfolio
Project
Discrete Effort
Data Date
46. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one successor.
Level of Effort
Path Divergence
Risk Mitigation
Cost Management Plan
47. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Risk Management Plan
Project Management
Scope Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
48. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Project Scope
Earned Value
Product Life Cycle
49. An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. (Note: Discrete effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Performing Organization
Critical Path
Discrete Effort
Assumption
50. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Organizational Process Assets
Summary Activity
Project
Acceptance Criteria