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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. 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
Program Closure
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Parallel lifecycle to Program
2. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program infrastructure
Benefits Management
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
3. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program Initiation
Means of Governance
Program Setup Output
Enterprise environmental factor
4. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Portfolio Components
Governance
Delivery of Program Benefits
Project Management
5. 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
Process assets
Program Management
Programs end
Program Charter Contents
6. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.
Governance
Program Charter Approval
Program Governance
Pre-program Preparations
7. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
PMO
Benefits Identification
Components
Any time
8. Management oversight of a program
Project Management
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup Phase Activity
Governance
9. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Project Management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Portfolio
10. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program
Program Approval Factor
Domain interaction
Project Domain
11. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Programs
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Components
Program Domain
12. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Charter Approval
Project Domain
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Start
13. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Integration Testing
Process Groups
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Realization
14. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Phase-Gate Review
Integration Testing
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio Management
15. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Pre-Program Preparations
Enterprise environmental factor
16. 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.
Program Benefit Delivery
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program infrastructure
Program Charter Contents
17. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program infrastructure
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program begins
18. 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 Information Flow
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program infrastructure
Programs
19. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Benefits Management
Program begins
20. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Product Lifecycle
Program Manager
Means of Governance
Program Charter Contents
21. Projects related only by a shared client - technology - seller - or resources - A collection of components (i.e. projects - programs - portfolios - and other work such as maintenance and related ongoing operations) that are grouped together to facili
Strong communication skills
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio
Program Setup Output
22. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Portfolio
PMO
Integration Testing
Strong communication skills
23. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program infrastructure
Program Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Approval Factor
24. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Management Plan Content
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
25. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Reviews
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Benefit Delivery
26. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Setup Output
Project
Program Management Plan Content
27. Program Closure
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio
Project Domain
28. Third lifecycle phase
Means of Governance
Program Domain
Program infrastructure
Program Setup
29. The centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objective and benefits. It involves aligning multiple projects to achieve the program goals and allows for optimized or integrated cost - schedule - and effort.
Program Life Cycle
Means of Governance
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Management
30. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Domain
Benefits Management
Program Benefit Delivery
31. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Life Cycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Management Plan Content
32. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Portfolio Components
Program Life Cycle
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Manager
33. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Project Management
Product Lifecycle
Benefit
Program infrastructure
34. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Charter Contents
35. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Domain interaction
Program Start
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
36. Aligning the vision - mission and values - Developing an initial detailed cost and schedule plan - Conducting feasibility studies - where applicable - Establishing rules for make/buy decisions as well as those for selecting subcontractors - Develo
Project Management
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
37. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Benefits Transistion
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Process assets
Main Program Phases Two of Five
38. Infrastructure (existing facilities and equipment) - Existing human resources - personnel administration (staffing/retention policies - etc.) - company work authorization systems - marketplace conditions - - stakeholder risk tolerances - political c
Product Lifecycle
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Manager
Portfolio
39. Program is ended by ________
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Steering Committee
40. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Portfolio
Program Benefit Delivery
Initiating and planning
Benefits Management
41. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Benefit
Pre-Program Preparations
Organizational Process Assets
42. A program manager has been identified - and the key input into this phase - a program brief or charter defining high-level scope - objectives - visions and constraints has been generated.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Management
Program Setup Phase
PMO
43. 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
Enterprise environmental factor
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program
Organizational Process Assets
44. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Programs
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Review
Program Closure Phase
45. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Program Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup Output
46. 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
Portfolio Components
Program Approval Factor
Portfolio Review Board
Program Domain
47. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Program Approval Factor
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Benefits Realization Planning
48. Second lifecycle phase
Benefits Management
Project Domain
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Initiation
49. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Setup Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Main Program Phases One of Five
Main Program Phases Four of Five
50. 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
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Governance
Program Closure Phase Activity