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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 the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Analogous Estimating
Resource Calendar
Project Manager
Risk Avoidance
2. 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.
Budget at Completion
Scope Baseline
Apportioned Effort
Program
3. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Cost Performance Index
Total Float
Project Phase
Schedule Performance Index
4. An estimate of the longest activity duration - which takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Earned Value
Lead
Opportunity
Pessimistic Duration
5. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Critical Path Method
Actual Cost
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Portfolio
6. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Portfolio
Probability and Impact Matrix
Project Charter
Scope Creep
7. The iterative process of increasing the level of detail in a project management plan as greater amounts of information and more accurate estimates become available.
Trigger Condition
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Progressive Elaboration
Project Scope Statement
8. A method of estimating project duration or cost by aggregating the estimates of the lower-level components of the work breakdown structure (WBS).
Gantt Chart
Product Life Cycle
Precedence Diagramming Method
Bottom-up Estimating
9. A dependent activity that logically comes after another activity in a schedule.
Change Request
Successor Activity
Free Float
Effort
10. 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.
Cost Variance
Project Management Plan
Program
Risk Breakdown Structure
11. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Lead
Acceptance Criteria
Human Resource Plan
Probability and Impact Matrix
12. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Project Charter
Program
Schedule Performance Index
Earned Value
13. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Variance Analysis
Forward Pass
Earned Value
Lag
14. A condition or capability that is required to be present in a product - service - or result to satisfy a contract or other formally imposed specification.
Late Start Date
Probability and Impact Matrix
Requirement
Risk
15. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Activity
Path Convergence
Sponsor
Variance at Completion
16. 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.
Project Life Cycle
Staffing Management Plan
Program Management Office
Fast Tracking
17. An event or situation that indicates that a risk is about to occur.
Trigger Condition
Program
Late Start Date
Portfolio Management
18. A technique used for constructing a schedule model in which activities are represented by nodes and are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are to be performed.
Discrete Effort
Backward Pass
Lessons Learned
Precedence Diagramming Method
19. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Three-Point Estimate
Most Likely Duration
Late Finish Date
Organizational Process Assets
20. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Risk
Lead
Schedule Variance
Project
21. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Early Start Date
Program Management
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Start-to-Finish
22. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Risk Register
Logical Relationship
What-If Sce
To-Complete Performance Index
23. The knowledge gained during a project which shows how project events were addressed or should be addressed in the future for the purpose of improving future performance
Schedule Variance
Lessons Learned
WBS Dictionary
Risk Acceptance
24. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Lag
Actual Cost
Change Control Board
Most Likely Duration
25. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Change Control
Risk Management Plan
Decision Tree Analysis
Procurement Management Plan
26. A projection of the amount of budget deficit or surplus - expressed as the difference between the budget at completion and the estimate at completion.
Variance at Completion
Estimate at Completion
Risk Avoidance
Precedence Diagramming Method
27. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how - when - and by whom information will be administered and disseminated.
Decomposition
Communication Management Plan
Precedence Diagramming Method
Project Calendar
28. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Rolling Wave Planning
Baseline
Lag
Staffing Management Plan
29. 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.
Gantt Chart
Start-to-Finish
WBS Dictionary
Total Float
30. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Change Control
Lessons Learned
Logical Relationship
Project Management Plan
31. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Baseline
Resource Leveling
Code of Accounts
Schedule Variance
32. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Estimate at Completion
Program Management
Late Finish Date
33. A risk response strategy whereby the project team decides to acknowledge the risk and not take any action unless the risk occurs.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Risk Acceptance
Risk Register
Effort
34. 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.
Critical Path Method
Baseline
Code of Accounts
Requirements Management Plan
35. A set of procedures that describes how modifications to the project deliverables and documentation are managed and controlled.
Change Control System
Constraint
Fast Tracking
Critical Path Method
36. 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.
Project Management
Gantt Chart
Change Control System
Rolling Wave Planning
37. 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.
Program Management Office
Phase Gate
Decomposition
Optimistic Duration
38. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Project
Scope Baseline
Estimate to Complete
Preventive Action
39. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
Optimistic Duration
Apportioned Effort
Finish-to-Start
S-Curve Analysis
40. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Human Resource Plan
Late Start Date
Most Likely Duration
Risk Mitigation
41. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Late Finish Date
Scope Baseline
Threat
Late Start Date
42. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Portfolio
Risk Mitigation
Project Management
Portfolio Balancing
43. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Project Manager
Bottom-up Estimating
Constraint
Successor Activity
44. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Gantt Chart
Schedule Management Plan
Variance at Completion
45. A distinct - scheduled portion of work performed during the course of a project.
Most Likely Duration
WBS Dictionary
Activity
Schedule Performance Index
46. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Opportunity
Lag
Predecessor Activity
Start-to-Start
47. 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 Model Analysis
Late Finish Date
Phase Gate
Schedule Baseline
48. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Effort
Path Convergence
Scope Management Plan
Earned Value Management
49. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Project Charter
WBS Dictionary
Cost Performance Index
Early Finish Date
50. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Program Management Office
Threat
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Assumption