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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. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Product Lifecycle
Project
Program Setup Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
2. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Program Management
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Setup Phase
Initiating and planning
3. 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
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Project
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Charter Contents
4. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Integration Testing
Portfolio Management
Benefits Identification
Program Closure Phase
5. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Project Domain
Strong communication skills
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Phase
6. 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
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Initiation
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure Phase
7. First phase of benefits management
Delivery of Program Benefits
Enterprise environmental factor
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Identification
8. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Benefit Delivery
Pre-Program Phase Activity
9. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Main Program Phases One of Five
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio Components
Program Start
10. 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
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
11. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Manager
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Closure
12. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Program infrastructure
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Means of Governance
Program Charter Contents
13. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program
Program Closure Phase Activities
Relationship among projects within a program
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
14. Fourth lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
15. 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.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Information Flow
Program Setup
Program Initiation Phase
16. A program manager has been identified - and the key input into this phase - a program brief or charter defining high-level scope - objectives - visions and constraints has been generated.
Portfolio Components
Program Setup Phase
Program Management Plan Content
Program Initiation
17. 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
Benefits Management
Program Closure
Program Setup Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
18. 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
Program Charter Approval
Program Approval Factor
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Management
19. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Any time
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Management
Benefits Management
20. Third lifecycle phase
Strong communication skills
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Setup
21. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Program Setup Phase Activity
Process Groups
Program Closure
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
22. A program must have more than one to function.
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Realization Planning
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Components
23. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Closure
Program Start
Benefits Transistion
24. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program infrastructure
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Manager
25. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program Setup Phase
Product Lifecycle
Portfolio
Project Domain
26. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Shutdown
Program Charter Approval
Programs
27. 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.
Process assets
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Domain interaction
Program Governance
28. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program
Project Domain
Benefits Identification
29. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Benefits Management
Program Shutdown
Program Charter
Program Setup Output
30. 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
Benefits Transistion
Program Closure Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
Strong communication skills
31. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefit
Project Domain
32. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Project
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program infrastructure
33. Second lifecycle phase
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Closure Phase
PMO
Program Initiation
34. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Project Domain
Any time
Program Closure Phase
35. Pre-Program Preparations
Program
Program Life Cycle
Program Benefit Delivery
Main Program Phases One of Five
36. Second phase of benefits management
Project Domain
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Project Management
37. Program is ended by ________
Program Management Plan Content
Steering Committee
Program Setup
Pre-program Preparations
38. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Enterprise environmental factor
Program
Domain interaction
Process Groups
39. 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 Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Charter Contents
40. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Benefit Delivery
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program
41. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program begins
Delivery of Program Benefits
Process assets
42. Program Closure
Main Program Phases One of Five
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Integration Testing
Program Setup Phase
43. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Realization
Organizational Process Assets
Program Domain
44. 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
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio
Program infrastructure
45. Program Setup
Program Start
Program Closure Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Project Domain
46. 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 Domain
Portfolio
Project Domain
Program Initiation
47. Management oversight of a program
Programs
Components
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Governance
48. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Programs
Program Charter
Programs end
49. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Initiating and planning
Project Domain
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
50. Program Initiation
Relationship among projects within a program
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Portfolio Components
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints