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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






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






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






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. Pre-Program Preparations






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






19. Purpose is to progressively elaborate the program charter and develop the foundation for the program by establishing an infrastructure and building a detailed "road map" that provides direction on how the program will be managed and defines its key d






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






21. Management oversight of a program






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






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






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






25. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






26. Program Setup






27. Second phase of benefits management






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






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






30. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






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






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






34. Fifth lifecycle phase






35. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






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






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






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






39. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.






47. 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






48. Second lifecycle phase






49. 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.






50. Delivery of Program Benefits