Test your basic knowledge |

PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. Fourth Phase of benefits management






3. 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.






4. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






5. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.






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






7. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






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






10. Management oversight of a program






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






12. 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






13. Pre-Program Preparations






14. 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.






15. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result






16. 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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






25. 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






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






27. First lifecycle phase






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






29. Delivery of Program Benefits






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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






35. First phase of benefits management






36. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






37. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.






38. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






39. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Third lifecycle phase






46. Fifth lifecycle phase






47. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






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