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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Fifth lifecycle phase






3. 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






4. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






5. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






6. Focuses on the analysis of the available information about organizational and business strategies - internal & external influences - program drivers - and the benefits that involved parties expected to realize.






7. First phase of benefits management






8. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.






9. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






10. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






11. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






12. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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






16. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






17. Fourth Phase of benefits management






18. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






19. ___________ when all compenents within the program have successfully produced their deliverable and have been incorporated into the final product; and that procud has been delivered or tranistioned into operations.






20. Management oversight of a program






21. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects






22. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






23. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.






24. Program Closure






25. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






26. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






27. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.






28. Program Setup






29. 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






30. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.






31. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






32. Program Initiation






33. Third phase of benefits management






34. 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.






35. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






36. 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






37. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.






38. Delivery of Program Benefits






39. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






40. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






41. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






42. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.






43. Third lifecycle phase






44. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






45. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






46. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






47. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements






48. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






49. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control






50. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.