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PMI Project Management Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Project Scope Statement
Portfolio Balancing
Rolling Wave Planning
2. A management structure that standardizes the project-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Control Account
Resource Calendar
Project Management Office
Forward Pass
3. An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail - while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Rolling Wave Planning
Project Manager
Cost Variance
Project Calendar
4. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Project Management Office
Risk Acceptance
Change Control System
Risk
5. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Schedule Performance Index
Change Control Board
Change Control
Start-to-Start
6. A method used to estimate the minimum project duration and determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on the logical network paths within the schedule model.
Progressive Elaboration
Critical Path Method
Risk Breakdown Structure
Start-to-Finish
7. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Milestone
Portfolio
Communication Management Plan
Organizational Project Management Maturity
8. A measure of the cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal - expressed as the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to the remaining budget.
Requirement
Staffing Management Plan
Path Convergence
To-Complete Performance Index
9. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Scope
Most Likely Duration
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
10. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Assumption
Corrective Action
Project Life Cycle
Program Management
11. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Crashing
Resource Leveling
Variance at Completion
Organizational Breakdown Structure
12. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Lag
Summary Activity
Early Start Date
13. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Scope Baseline
Staffing Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Early Finish Date
14. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Variance
Cost Management Plan
Estimate at Completion
Secondary Risk
15. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Product Life Cycle
Procurement Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Management Plan
16. 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.
Schedule Model
Budget at Completion
Scope Baseline
Earned Value Management
17. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Backward Pass
Project Calendar
Cost Variance
Schedule Model Analysis
18. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
Percent Complete
Scope Baseline
Earned Value
19. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Path Convergence
Defect Repair
Most Likely Duration
Fast Tracking
20. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Manager
Program Management
Project Phase
21. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Earned Value Management
Risk Breakdown Structure
Total Float
Milestone
22. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Critical Path Method
Total Float
What-If Sce
Planned Value
23. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Resource Leveling
Backward Pass
Successor Activity
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
24. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
Schedule Baseline
Variance Analysis
Critical Path Activity
Three-Point Estimate
25. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Project Schedule
Phase Gate
Milestone
Performing Organization
26. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Program Management
Logical Relationship
Project Schedule
27. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Apportioned Effort
Activity
Critical Path Activity
Project
28. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Early Start Date
Risk Breakdown Structure
Lead
Performing Organization
29. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
S-Curve Analysis
Constraint
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Preventive Action
30. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Budget at Completion
Project Management Office
Earned Value Management
Scope Creep
31. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Project Scope Statement
Deliverable
Baseline
Resource Breakdown Structure
32. An activity where effort is allotted proportionately across certain discrete efforts and not divisible into discrete efforts. (Note: Apportioned effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance
Project Scope
Apportioned Effort
Threat
WBS Dictionary
33. The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
Planned Value
Summary Activity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Defect Repair
34. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Start-to-Start
Crashing
Backward Pass
Variance Analysis
35. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Critical Path
Portfolio Balancing
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Optimistic Duration
36. A person or group who provides resources and support for the project - program - or portfolio - and is accountable for enabling success.
Successor Activity
Sponsor
Start-to-Start
Portfolio Balancing
37. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Assumption
Start-to-Finish
Scope Baseline
Finish-to-Finish
38. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Portfolio Management
Successor Activity
Earned Value Management
Logical Relationship
39. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Project Management
Risk Acceptance
S-Curve Analysis
40. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Fast Tracking
Earned Value
Schedule Model
Assumption
41. The approved version of a work product that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Baseline
Trigger Condition
Change Control
Scope Baseline
42. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Risk Avoidance
Threat
Cost Performance Index
Schedule Model
43. 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.
Finish-to-Start
Estimate to Complete
Apportioned Effort
Three-Point Estimate
44. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Schedule Management Plan
Discrete Effort
Deliverable
Program Management Office
45. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Activity
Organizational Process Assets
Constraint
S-Curve Analysis
46. 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.
Schedule Baseline
Risk Transference
Cost Performance Index
Free Float
47. A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.
Critical Path
Variance Analysis
Critical Path Method
Resource Leveling
48. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Resource Calendar
Project Schedule
Opportunity
Risk
49. A component of a project or program management plan that describes how costs will be planned - structured - and controlled.
Project Scope
Cost Management Plan
What-If Sce
Decomposition
50. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Quality Management Plan
Risk Management Plan
Pessimistic Duration
Free Float