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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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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. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Program Closure
Portfolio Components
Program Start
Project Management
2. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Integration Testing
Program Setup Phase
Program Management
3. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Benefits Management
Product Lifecycle
Program Charter Contents
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
4. 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.
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Information Flow
Project
Program Setup Output
5. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Delivery of Program Benefits
6. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Phase-Gate Review
Project
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Integration Testing
7. Third phase of benefits management
Program Shutdown
Benefits Management
Program
Benefits Realization
8. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Domain interaction
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Setup Phase Activity
9. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Governance
Components
Program Management
Program Benefit Delivery
10. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program Charter Approval
Any time
Integration Testing
Phase-Gate Review Approach
11. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review
Programs end
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Review Approach
12. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Life Cycle
Program Charter
Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
13. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Project Domain
Enterprise environmental factor
Process Groups
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
14. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Project
Program Governance
Domain interaction
Process assets
15. 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
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio
Benefit
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
16. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio
Program Life Cycle
17. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Benefits Management
Program Management Responsibilities
Initiating and planning
Project Management
18. 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 Management
Portfolio Components
Program Charter Approval
Benefits Management
19. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Benefits Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Charter Approval
20. 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.
Program Management
Benefits Identification
Program begins
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
21. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Pre-Program Preparations
Project
Program begins
Program Benefit Delivery
22. 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
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Main Program Phases Three of Five
23. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Relationship among projects within a program
Main Program Phases Five of Five
24. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Benefits Identification
Project
Programs
25. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Relationship among projects within a program
Any time
Phase-Gate Reviews
Portfolio
26. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Review
27. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Setup
Program Start
Pre-program Preparations
Program Closure Phase Activities
28. Fifth lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Closure
Components
Program begins
29. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Governance
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
30. Third lifecycle phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Management
Program Setup
Components
31. Second phase of benefits management
Program Initiation
Integration Testing
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Setup Phase
32. Program Setup
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Management Plan Content
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program infrastructure
33. Second lifecycle phase
Program Closure Phase
Program Initiation
Benefits Realization
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
34. 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
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Setup Phase
Governance
Program Charter Contents
35. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Initiating and planning
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Setup Output
36. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Benefits Realization
Program Information Flow
Portfolio Management
Program Setup Phase
37. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefits Realization Planning
Main Program Phases Two of Five
38. 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
Portfolio Management
Program Charter Contents
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Programs end
39. 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
Program Management Plan Content
Program Setup
Program Management Responsibilities
Program begins
40. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Initiation Phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Setup Output
41. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Charter
Relationship among projects within a program
Process assets
42. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Program Initiation
PMO
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Management
43. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Governance
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases One of Five
Programs
44. 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.
Program Setup
Program infrastructure
Program
Initiating and planning
45. 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
Program Setup Phase
Program Start
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio
46. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Setup
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Output
47. Management oversight of a program
Portfolio
Program Setup Phase
Governance
Benefit
48. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Closure Phase
Program Charter Contents
Integration Testing
Portfolio
49. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Domain
Portfolio Management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Components
50. 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 infrastructure
Program Closure Phase Activity
Portfolio Management
Any time