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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Testing identified assumptions against two criteria: assumption stability and consequences on the project if the assumption is false.
Product Analysis
Proposal
Project Assumption Testing
Statistical Sampling
2. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Data precision
Root Cause Analysis
Quality Audit
3. Descriptions of which resources will be available at what times and in what patterns necessary for schedule development
Quality Metrics
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Resource Pool Descriptions
Simulation
4. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.
Project Records
Assumptions
Checklists
Simulation
5. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Risk Register
Collect Requirements
Verify Scope
Project Management
6. Allow for non-sequential activities (e.g. Loops or Conditional Branches); e.g. - GERT(Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique) and System Dynamics
Project Assumption Testing
Procurement Management Plan
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Project Stakeholders
7. Describes how individual requirements meet the business need for the project.
Change Control System
Quality Assurance
Requirements Documentation
Coding Structure
8. The process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements - and forecasts to stakeholders.
Simulation
Manage Stakeholder
Report Performance
Cost Management Plan
9. Description of the product of the project - provides important information about any technical issues or concerns that would need to be considered during procurement planning
Project Integration Management
Coding Structure
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Product description
10. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed.
Project Cost Management
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Organizational Policies
Activity List
11. Process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives
Direct costs
Collect Requirements
Precedence Relationships
Prioritized list of quantified risks
12. A documented list of project team members - their project roles - and communication information.
Workaround plans
Contract Change Control System
Project Team Directory
Team Building Activities
13. Mutually binding legal agreement that obligates the seller to provide the specified products - services - or results - and obligates the buyer to compensate the seller.
Contract
Project Quality Management
Quality Management Plan
Scope Management Plan
14. Organize and summarize the information gathered - and present the results of any analysis as compared to the performance measurement baseline. Reports should provide status and progress of the project at the required level of detail.
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
Risk Consequences
Determine Budget
Performance Reports
15. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Plan Risk Responses
Decomposition
Quality Policy
Risk Audits
16. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Lessons Learned
Revised Cost Estimates
Avoidance
Program
17. The process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources
Assumptions
Estimate Activity Durations
Additional Risk Response Planning
Independent estimates
18. 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
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Scope Statement
Total Float
Organization Chart
19. 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
Project Files
Brainstorming
Procurement file
Constraints
20. Policies - guidelines and procedures that can help the project management team with various aspects of organizational planning.
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
Team Building Activities
Human Resource Practices
Constraints
21. Factors which - for planning purposes - are considered to be true - real or certain.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Assumptions
Formal acceptance and closure
Project Life Cycle
22. 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 -
System or Process
Resource Leveling
Qualified seller lists
Additional Risk Response Planning
23. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result
Plan Risk Responses
Project
Risk probability
Acceptance
24. This is done to take care of risks that were not identified in the risk response plan - or their impact on objectives is greater than expected.
Additional Risk Response Planning
Prototypes
Revised Cost Estimates
Project Integration Management
25. Collection of generally sequential project phases.
Schedule Baseline
Project Life Cycle
Scope Changes
Project Integration Management
26. Process to monitor the status of the project to update the project budget and manage changes to the cost baseline.
Project Risk Management
Control Costs
Additional Risk Response Planning
Schedule Baseline
27. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project includes only the essential work required to complete the project successfully. It includes collecting the requirements - defining the scope - verifying the scope and controlling the scope o
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Control Scope
Project Scope Management
Critical Path Method
28. 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.
Workaround plans
Work Authorization System
Residual Risks
Control Costs
29. 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.
Benchmarking
Risk probability
Probability and impact matrix
Rework
30. A method of estimating a component of work. The work is decomposed into more detail. An estimate is prepared of what is needed to meet the requirements of each of the lower - more detailed pieces of work. These estimates are then aggregated into a to
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Scope
External Dependencies
Schedule Baseline
31. Process of identifying the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables.
Develop Schedule
Collect Requirements
Define Activities
Procurement Documents
32. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Define Activities
Inspection
External Feedback
Risk
33. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.
Requirements Documentation
Plan Communications
Re-baselining
Project Procurement Management
34. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).
Brainstorming
Bidder Conferences
Direct costs
Risk probability
35. Documented direction for executing the project work to bring expected future performance of the project work in line with the project management plan.
Work Results
Project Planning Methodology
Corrective Action
Mathematical Analysis
36. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th
Project Schedule
Control Charts
Procurement Management Plan
Functional Organization
37. Defines what kinds of competencies are required from what kind of individuals or groups and in what time frames.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Work Results
Project Quality Management
Staffing Requirements
38. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Define Scope
Data precision
Product Analysis
Information Distribution Methods
39. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.
Corrective Action
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Project Selection Methods
Re-baselining
40. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Group Creativity Techniques
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Close procurements
Facilitated Workshops
41. Risks that arise as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Work Results
Product Scope
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Secondary Risks
42. Factors that limit a buyer's options. E.g. - funds availability
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Constraints
Decomposition
43. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Facilitated Workshops
Formal acceptance and closure
Regulation
Technical performance measurement
44. Process of formally authorizing a new project or the next phase of an existing project; links the project to the ongoing work of the performing organization
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Initiation
Re-baselining
Constraints
45. Documents how requirements will be analyzed - documented - and managed throughout the project
Matrix Organization
Risk
Project Life Cycle
Requirements Management Plan
46. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Plan Risk Management
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Procurement Documents
Procurement performance reviews
47. Activities that assist in developing/enhancing the ability of team members to work together effectively and contribute to the success of the project team. It improves the people skills - technical competencies - and overall team environment and proje
Develop Schedule
Stakeholder register
Administer procurements
Team Development
48. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Independent estimates
Procurement Management Plan
Project Procurement Management
49. Dependencies determined by the Project Management Team; involve a relationship between project activities and non-project activities (i.e. - dependencies on issues that are beyond the scope of the project). These dependencies are outside the project
Performance Reports
Functional Organization
External Dependencies
Project Files
50. A formal - approved document used to define how the project is executed - controlled and monitored. It can either be at a detailed or high level and may contain one or more subsidiary plans.
Project Plan
Triggers
Estimate at Completion (EAC)
Proposal