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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Second lifecycle phase






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






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






4. Program Setup






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






6. 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.






7. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






8. First lifecycle phase






9. Program Closure






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






11. ___________ 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.






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. Fourth lifecycle phase






18. 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






19. Second phase of benefits management






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.






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






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






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






24. 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






25. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






34. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Program is ended by ________






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






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






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






46. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






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






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






49. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






50. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.