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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Product Lifecycle
Program Start
Initiating and planning
Benefits Transistion
2. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Initiation
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Integration Testing
3. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Program Shutdown
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Initiation Phase
4. Defines program management processes - manages schedule and budget at the program level - Defines program quality standards and components - Provides document configuration management - Provides centralized support for managing changes and tracking r
Main Program Phases One of Five
PMO
Portfolio Components
Program Charter
5. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Shutdown
Phase-Gate Review
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Identification
6. Third phase of benefits management
Project Domain
PMO
Benefits Realization
Program Management
7. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Closure
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase Activity
8. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
Components
9. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Enterprise environmental factor
Delivery of Program Benefits
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Components
10. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Benefits Realization Planning
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Benefit Delivery
Program infrastructure
11. First phase of benefits management
Programs end
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Identification
Main Program Phases Four of Five
12. Establishing a project governance structure to monitor and control the projects - Initiating projects in order to meet program objectives - Ensuring component deliverables meet the requirements - Analyzing the progress to plan - Identifying environme
Programs
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
13. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
14. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Project Domain
15. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Programs end
Program
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
16. Review status of benefits with stakeholders - Disband the program organization - Disband the program team - Dismantle the infrastructure and ensure arrangements are in place for appropriate redeployment of all physical resources - Provide customer su
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
17. Desired outcomes - Benefits analysis - which identifies and plans for their realization Strategic fit within the organization's long term goals. - Total available resources - Estimated time scale - costs - and effort required to set-up - manage and d
Program Approval Factor
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase
18. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Program Information Flow
Benefits Identification
Program Management
19. Program Setup
Program Governance
Program Domain
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
20. Goes from Program to the components during the early phases of initiating and planning - and then from the components to the program during the later phases of planning and in the executing - monitoring and controlling - and closing phases.
Program infrastructure
Program Information Flow
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Output
21. Identification - monitoring and control of the inter-dependencies between the projects; Dealing with the escalated issues among the projects that compromise the program; and tracking the contribution of each project and the non-project work to the co
Product Lifecycle
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Information Flow
Program Governance
22. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Charter Approval
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
23. Program is ended by ________
Portfolio Components
Steering Committee
Program Charter
Portfolio Management
24. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Charter
Programs end
Portfolio
Program Setup Output
25. Second phase of benefits management
Delivery of Program Benefits
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefits Analysis and Planning
26. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Organizational Process Assets
Program
Benefits Transistion
Program Initiation Phase Activity
27. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Domain
Components
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Realization
28. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefits Management
Integration Testing
Program Management Responsibilities
29. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Benefits Realization Planning
Project Domain
Program Life Cycle
Main Program Phases Three of Five
30. Purpose is to progressively elaborate the program charter and develop the foundation for the program by establishing an infrastructure and building a detailed "road map" that provides direction on how the program will be managed and defines its key d
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
Program Start
Program Approval Factor
31. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Multiple related projects that are initiated during the program's life cycle and are managed in a coordinated fashi
Program Management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program
Main Program Phases Three of Five
32. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Management Plan Content
Portfolio Components
Main Program Phases One of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits
33. Justification - vision - strategic fit - outcomes - scope - benefit strategy - assumptions and constraints - components - risks and issues - time scale - resources needed - stakeholder considerations - program governance - and the initial high-level
Program Setup Phase
Benefits Realization
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter Contents
34. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Initiating and planning
Main Program Phases One of Five
Process assets
35. Third lifecycle phase
Steering Committee
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Product Lifecycle
Program Setup
36. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Program infrastructure
Initiating and planning
Benefit
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
37. Supports program manager and provides information on schedule and budget - performance - risks - inter-component status and issues - stakeholder communications - and all other program management information.
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Charter
Programs
Program infrastructure
38. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Manager
Enterprise environmental factor
Program infrastructure
Program Setup
39. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Life Cycle
Program Benefit Delivery
Process Groups
40. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program begins
Phase-Gate Review
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Domain interaction
41. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio Review Board
Steering Committee
Benefits Realization
42. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Contents
43. Second lifecycle phase
Program
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Initiation
Program Initiation Phase
44. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Governance
Program Approval Factor
45. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Charter
Program begins
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio Components
46. Understanding the strategic benefits of the program - Developing a plan to initiate the program - Defining the program objectives and their alignment with the organizational goals - Developing a high level business case demonstrating an understanding
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Closure Phase Activity
47. Primary objective is to develop in greater detail how a program can be structured and managed to deliver the desired outcomes that were identified in the program mandate.
Program Closure Phase
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases One of Five
Strong communication skills
48. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Governance
Program Setup
Product Lifecycle
49. Each one functions as a "go" or "no-go" decision point on the program as a whole. Performed to check the program performance against the planned criteria for exit from the phase that has just been completed - and to determine the readiness for procee
Phase-Gate Review
Process Groups
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase
50. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Management
Programs
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Strong communication skills