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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.






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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. Program is ended by ________






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






9. 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.






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






11. First lifecycle phase






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






13. A program must have more than one to function.






14. 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






15. Program Initiation






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






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






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






19. First phase of benefits management






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






24. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






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






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.






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






32. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






34. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






35. Second lifecycle phase






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






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






38. Third lifecycle phase






39. Program Setup






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.






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






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






50. 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.