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1. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.
Control Scope
Project Stakeholders
Rework
Statistical Sampling
2. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.
Data precision
Monitor and Control Risks
Inspection
Observations
3. A schedule network analysis technique used to determine the amount of scheduling flexibility on various logical network paths in the project schedule network - and to determine the minimum total project duration. Early start and finish dates are calc
Constraints
Brainstorming
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Technical performance measurement
4. A modification of a logical relationship that directs a delay in the successor activity.
Prototypes
Lag
Information Distribution Methods
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
5. A schedule compression technique in which cost and schedule tradeoffs are analyzed to determine how to obtain the greatest amount of compression for the least incremental cost. Crashing only works for activities where additional resources will shorte
Precedence Relationships
Crashing
Analogous Estimating (top-down)
Make-or-buy analysis
6. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Transference
Change Control System
Control Scope
Root Cause Analysis
7. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Plan Risk Management
Group Decision Making Techniques
Project Closeout
Communications Technology
8. Process of obtaining seller responses - selecting a seller - and awarding a contract
Crashing
Procurement audits
Risk Audits
Conduct Procurements
9. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Identify Stakeholders
Project Risk Management
Coding Structure
Deliverable
10. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.
Project Procurement Management
Buyer-Seller relationship
Change Control System
Scope Management Plan
11. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.
Make-or-buy analysis
Risk Register
Simulation
Re-baselining
12. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Quality Audit
Resource Calendar
Procurement Management Plan
Corrective Action
13. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Risk Audits
Decision Tree
Close procurements
14. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Formal acceptance and closure
Statistical Sampling
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Control Account
15. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Project Assumption Testing
Resource Calendar
Project Procurement Management
Critical Path Method
16. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Brainstorming
Procurement performance reviews
Quality
Assumptions
17. Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers
Residual Risks
Constraints
Procurement Documents
Scope Change Control System
18. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Resource Calendar
Assumptions
Tolerances vs. Control limits
External Feedback
19. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Code of Accounts
Risk Register
Expert Judgment
Scope Management Plan
20. List of risks includes those that pose the greatest threat or present the greatest opportunity to the project together with a measure of their impact.
Prioritized list of quantified risks
Lead
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Decision Tree
21. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.
Precedence Relationships
Performance Reviews
Sensitivity Analysis
Change Requests
22. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si
Project Team Directory
Matrix Organization
Training
Cost-reimbursable contracts
23. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Flowcharts
Residual Risks
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Project Management
24. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative
Brainstorming
Lead
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Human Resource Practices
25. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.
Risk management policies
Project Plan
Residual Risks
Free Float
26. The planned dates to perform schedule activities and the planned dates for meeting schedule milestones. Includes planned start and finish dates for the project's activities - milestones - work packages - planning packages - and control accounts. This
Checklists
Bidder Conferences
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Similarities between Operations and Projects
27. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Organizational Policies
Documentation Reviews
Revised Cost Estimates
28. Refers to the centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic business objectives. Portfolio management ensures that the portfolios are reviewed to ascertain that resources are allocated as per priority and the allocation is con
Resource Pool Descriptions
Procurement Management Plan
Project Portfolio Management
Projectized Organization
29. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Deliverable
Quality Assurance
Checklists
Report Performance
30. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Quality Audit
Project Selection Methods
Observations
Parametric Estimating
31. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.
Change Control System
Scope baseline
Staffing Pool Description
Revised Cost Estimates
32. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Procurement audits
Rework
Documentation Reviews
33. An accepted action performed to bring projected future project performance in line with the project plan. These actions have to be documented.
Procurement resources
Lessons Learned
Resource Pool Descriptions
Corrective Action
34. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Precedence Relationships
Proposals
Communication Requirements Analysis
Project Management
35. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Benchmarking
Product Scope
Change Control System
Close procurements
36. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Perform Quality Control
Checklists
Proposals
Plan Procurements
37. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are
Projectized Organization
Communications Technology
Simulation
Project Scope
38. Includes all those activities designed to enhance the competencies of the project team members. Training can be formal or informal.
Distribute Information
Training
Project Quality Management
Decision Tree
39. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Project Assumption Testing
Project Scope
Control Scope
Contract
40. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Assumptions Analysis
Quality Policy
Trend Analysis
Constraints
41. Describes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination and ultimate disposition of project information. It includes identifying stakeholders - planning communication - distributing information - mana
Plan Risk Responses
Project Communications Management
Risk Management Plan
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
42. A formal procedure for authorizing project work to ensure that work is done by the identified organization at the right time and in proper sequence.
Work Authorization System
Risk probability
Configuration Management System
Product Analysis
43. An analytical technique used to determine the basic underlying reason that causes a variance or a defect or a risk. Root cause may underlie more than one variance or defect or risk. Root cause analysis is done as part of corrective action - Helps ide
Root Cause Analysis
Crashing
Documentation Reviews
Project Management
44. A -specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives.
Staffing Requirements
Plan Risk Management
Free Float
Schedule Baseline
45. A general management technique used to determine whether a particular work can be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources.
Control Costs
Make-or-buy analysis
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Root Cause Analysis
46. Risk Audits examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes - as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.
Estimate Activity Resources
Budget Updates
Risk Consequences
Risk Audits
47. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Sensitivity Analysis
Training
Project Management
Workaround plans
48. Process of documenting project purchasing decisions - specifying the approach - and identifying potential sellers.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Plan Procurements
Project Procurement Management
Project Management
49. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Quality Metrics
Project Schedule
Group Decision Making Techniques
Benchmarking
50. In a projectized organization - most of the organization's resources are involved in project work - and Project Managers have a great deal of independence and authority.
Direct costs
Quality Assurance
Projectized Organization
Project Cost Management