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1. Probability that a risk will occur.
Risk probability
Conduct Procurements
Avoidance
Communications management plan
2. They involve measuring value or attractiveness to the project owner. Includes considering the decision criteria and a means to calculate value under uncertainty.
Project Scope
Prototypes
Project Selection Methods
Project Communications Management
3. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Project Plan
Transference
Project Management
Project Cost Management
4. Measuring - examining and testing undertaken to determine whether results conform to requirements; also called reviews - product reviews - audits - and walkthroughs
Communications management plan
Parametric Estimating
Performance Reviews
Inspection
5. Involves procedures required to close a contract as specified in the prescribed procedures for close procurements. Includes product verification and administrative closure.
Activity List
Report Performance
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Close procurements
6. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.
Scope baseline
Project Planning Methodology
Verify Scope
Determine Budget
7. A collection of formal (note: not informal) documented procedures - which defines how the documentation and project deliverables will be managed - changed and approved.
Constraints
Data Precision Ranking
Matrix Organization
Change Control System
8. 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
Verify Scope
Project Assumption Testing
Observations
Procurement resources
9. The expected total cost of a schedule activity - a work breakdown structure component - or the project when the defined scope of work will be completed.
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Project Human Resource Management
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Life Cycle Costing
10. Factors that will limit the project management team's options (e.g. - a predefined budget)
Deliverable
Constraints
Stakeholder Analysis
Manage Stakeholder
11. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Resource Leveling
Quality Metrics
Data Precision Ranking
Plan Risk Management
12. 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
Report Performance
Develop Schedule
Risk Categories
System or Process
13. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Project Assumption Testing
Total Float
Project Procurement Management
Project Time Management
14. Changing the project management plan to eliminate the threat entirely.
Risk Database
Initiation
Avoidance
Acquire Project Team
15. 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
Data precision
Earned Value Analysis
Flowcharts
Resource Pool Descriptions
16. Process of monitoring the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline
Communications management plan
Risk Management Plan
Control Schedule
Quality Metrics
17. Formal written notice from a person or organization responsible for contract administration - informing that the contract has been completed.
Formal acceptance and closure
Focus groups
Mitigation
Organization Breakdown Structure
18. 1. Operations do not have any timelines. Projects are temporary and have finite time duration. 2. Operation's objective is usually to sustain the business. Project's objective is to achieve the target and close the project.
Differences between Operations and Project
Data precision
Parametric Estimating
Team Building Activities
19. Broader view of Project Cost Management - whereby other than project costs - we consider the effect of project decisions on the cost of using the project's product.
Scope Statement
Interviews
Life Cycle Costing
Sequence Activities
20. Process of defining how to conduct risk management activities for a project.
Scope Management Plan
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Plan Risk Management
Simulation
21. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.
Process Adjustments
Team Development
Contract
Staffing Requirements
22. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.
Cost Management Plan
Verify Scope
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Plan Risk Management
23. 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
Trend Analysis
Deliverable
Verify Scope
Checklists
24. The process in which the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages are aggregated to establish an authorized cost baseline.
Project Time Management
Corrective Action
Quality Metrics
Constraints
25. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.
Acquire Project Team
Assumptions Analysis
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Project Cost Management
26. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Administer procurements
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
Project Communications Management
Make-or-buy analysis
27. Includes identified risks - risk owners - results of Perform qualitative risk analysis process - agreed upon response strategies - etc.
Project Scope Management
Expert Judgment
Risk Register
Project Procurement Management
28. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Project Procurement Management
Contract Change Control System
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
29. It shortens the project schedule without changing the project scope - in order to meet schedule constraints - imposed dates - or other schedule objectives. -. This technique includes crashing and fast tracking.
Fixed- price contracts
Schedule Compression
Staffing Pool Description
Forecasting
30. Deliverable- oriented grouping of project components that organizes and defines the total scope of the project - work not in the WBS is outside the scope of the project.
Scope Statement
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assumptions
Secondary Risks
31. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.
Triggers
Secondary Risks
Quality Management Plan
Quality Audit
32. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Grade
Requirements Documentation
Monitor and Control Risks
33. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Assumptions Analysis
Communications Technology
Project Human Resource Management
Interviews
34. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Estimate Activity Durations
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Project Records
35. 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
Risk Management Plan
Schedule updates
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
36. Describes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It includes developing the project plan - managing the execution of the project plan - monitoring & controlling work - integrating the chang
Product description
Project Integration Management
Fast Tracking
Requirements Documentation
37. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships - and productivity.
Distribute Information
Project Procurement Management
Procurement resources
Collocation
38. Technique that explores the validity of assumptions basing on which every identified project risk is conceived and developed. It identifies risks to the project from inaccuracy - instability - inconsistency - or incompleteness of assumptions.
Estimate Activity Resources
Qualified seller lists
Assumptions Analysis
Forecasting
39. Methods used to distribute information to team members and other stakeholders.
Close procurements
Information Distribution Methods
Plan Risk Management
Project Assumption Testing
40. Repository that provides for collection - maintenance - and analysis of data gathered and used in the risk management process. Use of this database assists risk management throughout the organization and - over time - forms the basis of a risk lesson
Procurement Documents
Project Scope
Phase Exits/ Stage Gates/ Kill Points
Risk Database
41. Seller prepared documents that describe the seller's ability and willingness to provide the requested product.
Project Quality Management
Proposals
Residual Risks
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
42. Seller is a subcontractor - vendor - or supplier - who will typically manage the work of the project. Buyer is the customer who has outsourced work to the seller.
Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Buyer-Seller relationship
Crashing
Assumptions
43. Any modification to the agreed upon project scope as defined by the approved WBS
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Quality Improvement
Scope Changes
Plan Procurements
44. Activities specifically taken by management and team members to help individual team members work together effectively - thereby improving team performance
Change Control System
Team Building Activities
External Feedback
Scope Management Plan
45. Persons or organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by the performance or completion of the project. They may also exert influence over the project - its deliverables - and the
Free Float
Trend Analysis
Project Stakeholders
Schedule Compression
46. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Control Scope
Procurement audits
Project Scope Management
Requirements Traceability Matrix
47. An authorized time-phased budget at completion (BAC) used to measure - monitor - and control overall cost performance on the project. Developed as a summation of the approved budgets by time period and is typically displayed in the form of an S-curve
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Change Control System
Quality Assurance
Project Files
48. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Program
Plan Procurements
Code of Accounts
Decomposition
49. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Requirements Documentation
Data Precision Ranking
50. Project team accepts the risk - i.e. team decides not to change the project plan to deal with the risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy.
Risk Management Plan
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Acceptance
Scope Statement
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