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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.






2. Delivery of Program Benefits






3. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






4. First phase of benefits management






5. 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






6. ___________ 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.






7. 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






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






9. Program is ended by ________






10. 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






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






12. Management oversight of a program






13. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






15. First lifecycle phase






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






17. 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






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






19. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.






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






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






22. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






23. 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






24. 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.






25. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.






26. 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.






27. 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






28. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






29. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






31. End result and expectations - Timeline for program benefit realization - Program budget - Risks and issues - Dependencies - assumptions - constraints - Management of the program and components - Other required services - Program






32. 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.






33. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.






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






35. 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






36. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






38. Third phase of benefits management






39. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






40. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






43. 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






44. Program Setup






45. 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






46. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.






47. 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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment