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Subjects : certifications, capm
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1. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.






2. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions






3. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.






4. Terms used when the source selection decision will be based on price






5. Describes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the project team. It includes planning procurements - conducting procurements - administering procurements - and closing procurements.






6. A matrix that assigns risk ratings to risks or conditions based on a combining probability and impact scales. Risks with high probability and high impact will require further analysis.






7. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.






8. Features or services that characterize a product - result - or service






9. A group of documented procedure used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to: a) Identify and document the system's functional and physical characteristics; b)Control any changes to such characteristics; c) Record and repo






10. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.






11. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.






12. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.






13. Effect on project objectives if the risk event occurs.






14. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.






15. Used to identify project and product requirements; some of the techniques used are: Brainstorming - Nominal group technique - The Delphi technique - Idea/mind mapping - and Affinity diagram.






16. Also known as "job shadowing -" it is usually done externally by the observer viewing the user performing her job.






17. 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.






18. Structured method to guide the project team during development of project plan. Standard forms and templates or even complicated simulations may be used.






19. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






20. Probability that a risk will occur.






21. Meetings held to assess project status and/or progress.






22. If the performing organization does not have a formal contracting group - then the project team will have to supply both the resources and expertise to support procurement activities






23. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w






24. Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) includes four types of dependencies or relationships between activities: 1. Finish to Start; 2. Finish to Finish; 3. Start to Finish; 4. Start to Start






25. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.






26. A table that links requirements to their origin and traces them throughout the project life cycle






27. 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.






28. Dependencies that are contractually required or those inherent in the nature of the work. Often involve physical limitations.






29. Charts/ Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed. Such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education -






30. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following schedule activities.






31. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.






32. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives






33. 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.






34. A modification of a logical relationship that allows an acceleration of the successor activity. A negative lead is equivalent to a positive lag.






35. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.






36. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte






37. Integrates scope - cost (or resource) - and schedule measures to help the project management team assess project performance.






38. Requests to expand or reduce project scope - modify policies/ processes/plans/procedures/costs and - if approved - can affect budgets or revise schedules. These change requests are processed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.






39. A documented list of project team members - their project roles - and communication information.






40. 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.






41. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.






42. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.






43. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).






44. Special category of revised cost estimates to an approved cost baseline.






45. Defines the process by which the procurement can be modified. It includes paperwork - tracking systems - dispute resolution procedures - and approval levels necessary for authorizing changes.






46. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.






47. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers






48. Describes how risk management will be structured and performed on the project.






49. Projects are frequently divided into better manageable components or subprojects. Subprojects are often contracted to an external enterprise or another functional unit in the performing organization.






50. An estimating technique that uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration. An example for the cost parameter is multiplying