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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Program is ended by ________
Benefits Realization
Project Domain
Steering Committee
Program Setup Phase Activity
2. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program
Initiating and planning
Program Setup
3. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Benefit Delivery
Phase-Gate Reviews
Strong communication skills
4. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Means of Governance
Integration Testing
Any time
5. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Charter Approval
Program begins
Benefits Management
Program Setup Phase
6. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Integration Testing
Program Setup Phase
Project
Program Setup
7. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Benefit
Process assets
Project Domain
Pre-Program Preparations
8. 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
Program Domain
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Strong communication skills
9. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Portfolio Components
Product Lifecycle
Program
Process assets
10. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Charter Contents
Program begins
Program Governance
Programs end
11. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Program Life Cycle
Program Setup Phase
Means of Governance
Program Charter Approval
12. 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 Setup Phase
Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
13. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Project Management
Program Management Plan Content
Program Manager
Relationship among projects within a program
14. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Information Flow
Strong communication skills
15. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Strong communication skills
Enterprise environmental factor
Program
Program
16. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Benefit Delivery
Benefits Realization
Portfolio
17. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Program Management Responsibilities
18. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Governance
Program Management Plan Content
Project Management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
19. 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.
Benefits Management
Product Lifecycle
PMO
Program Governance
20. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Program Charter Approval
Program Charter
Initiating and planning
21. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Closure
Project Domain
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
22. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Management
Project
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
23. Also known as Executive Steering Group may issue a program mandate which defines the strategic objectives and benefits that the program is expected to deliver.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Closure
24. 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
Organizational Process Assets
PMO
Program Manager
Program Shutdown
25. Second phase of benefits management
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Steering Committee
Programs
26. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Shutdown
Program Charter
Pre-program Preparations
Program Closure Phase Activities
27. Third phase of benefits management
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Realization
Pre-Program Preparations
Program
28. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Project Domain
Program Charter Contents
Process Groups
Program Start
29. 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 Start
Program Charter Contents
Program Manager
PMO
30. 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
Governance
Program Management Plan Content
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
31. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Portfolio
Benefits Management
Program Charter Contents
32. 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
Initiating and planning
Program
Organizational Process Assets
33. 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
Project Management
Program Setup Phase
Programs
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
34. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Setup
Program Setup Phase
Benefit
Program Life Cycle
35. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Governance
Portfolio
Process Groups
Benefit
36. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Domain
37. 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
Benefits Management
Project Management
Program Charter Contents
Program
38. 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.
Pre-program Preparations
Program begins
Program Initiation Phase
Portfolio Management
39. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Approval Factor
40. Purpose is to initiate the component projects and manage the development of the program benefits - which were identified during the initial phases. Ends when the planned benefits of the program are achieved - delivered and accepted or a decision is m
Pre-program Preparations
Program Domain
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Setup
41. 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.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio Review Board
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Management
42. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Phase-Gate Review
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Approval Factor
Governance
43. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Benefits Realization Planning
44. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Benefits Realization
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
Program Benefit Delivery
45. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio Management
Program
46. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Information Flow
Pre-Program Preparations
Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases One of Five
47. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation Phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Approval Factor
48. A program must have more than one to function.
Project
Components
Program Manager
Benefits Identification
49. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Management
Program
50. First lifecycle phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
PMO
Benefit