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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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1. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Approval Factor
Process Groups
2. 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 Domain
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Shutdown
3. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Transistion
Program Management
Program Charter
4. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio Review Board
Any time
5. ___________ 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.
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
Process assets
Programs end
6. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program begins
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Manager
Project Management
7. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Domain
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Main Program Phases One of Five
Governance
8. Vision and key objectives for success criteria - Expected outcomes and benefits - Program assumptions and constraints - High-level program plan - Known risks and issues - Identifications of suitable business change managers with the ability to influe
Strong communication skills
Program Domain
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Charter Contents
9. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Means of Governance
Organizational Process Assets
Strong communication skills
10. First phase of benefits management
Benefits Identification
Phase-Gate Reviews
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Setup Phase
11. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Program Charter
Benefits Realization Planning
Phase-Gate Reviews
Relationship among projects within a program
12. 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
Organizational Process Assets
Program Shutdown
PMO
Program Charter Contents
13. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Closure Phase
Components
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Shutdown
14. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Reviews
Portfolio Management
Phase-Gate Review Approach
15. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Any time
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program
Program Start
16. 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.
Benefits Transistion
Integration Testing
Program Management
Benefits Identification
17. First lifecycle phase
Program Closure Phase
Project Domain
Program Start
Pre-Program Preparations
18. 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.
Portfolio Review Board
Program Management Responsibilities
PMO
Benefits Realization
19. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Initiation
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
Product Lifecycle
20. Delivery of Program Benefits
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Initiation Phase
Governance
Main Program Phases Four of Five
21. 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
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Portfolio
Program
22. Program Setup
Benefits Realization
Portfolio
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
23. 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
Program Setup
Relationship among projects within a program
Portfolio
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
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.
Integration Testing
Program infrastructure
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Setup Output
25. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Charter
26. Program Closure
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Portfolio Review Board
Program Management Responsibilities
Main Program Phases Five of Five
27. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Benefits Management
Program Management Plan Content
28. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Process assets
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Management
Integration Testing
29. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Portfolio Components
Program Closure Phase
Project
Enterprise environmental factor
30. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Charter Approval
Integration Testing
Portfolio
Program
31. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Life Cycle
Organizational Process Assets
32. Management oversight of a program
Governance
Enterprise environmental factor
Program
Benefits Identification
33. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Portfolio Components
Program Shutdown
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Benefit
34. 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.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program infrastructure
Program Charter Contents
Pre-program Preparations
35. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Governance
Project Domain
Benefits Management
Steering Committee
36. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Organizational Process Assets
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio Management
37. 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 Three of Five
Program Shutdown
PMO
Benefits Management
38. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Enterprise environmental factor
Programs
Portfolio Components
39. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Life Cycle
Project Domain
Phase-Gate Review Approach
40. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Benefit Delivery
Process assets
Program Information Flow
Phase-Gate Review
41. 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
Program Management
Phase-Gate Review
Portfolio Components
Benefits Realization Planning
42. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Identification
43. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Shutdown
Program Closure Phase
Program Setup Phase Activity
44. 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
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Setup Phase
Program Management
45. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Pre-program Preparations
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Initiating and planning
Program Setup Phase
46. Third lifecycle phase
Benefit
Program Setup
Project Domain
Relationship among projects within a program
47. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Closure Phase
Program Charter Contents
Pre-program Preparations
48. 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
Integration Testing
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
49. 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 Charter Approval
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program infrastructure
Program Setup Phase
50. A program must have more than one to function.
Programs end
Components
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Process assets