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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. Second lifecycle phase
Pre-program Preparations
PMO
Program Initiation
Program Setup Output
2. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Initiating and planning
Domain interaction
Project Management
Pre-program Preparations
3. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Management
Portfolio
Program Charter Approval
4. Program Setup
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Portfolio Management
5. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Main Program Phases One of Five
Portfolio
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup Phase Activity
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.
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Pre-program Preparations
Program Charter Contents
Program Start
7. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program Setup
Portfolio Components
Program Setup Phase
Any time
8. First lifecycle phase
Project Management
Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Life Cycle
9. Program Closure
Program Closure Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Setup Phase Activity
Relationship among projects within a program
10. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program
Pre-program Preparations
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.
Benefits Identification
Programs end
Programs
Organizational Process Assets
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
Project Management
Phase-Gate Review
Program Setup Output
Program Management Plan Content
13. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Main Program Phases One of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Process Groups
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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Programs
Portfolio Review Board
Strong communication skills
15. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Management Responsibilities
Benefits Management
Pre-Program Preparations
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.
Project
Program Setup Phase
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
17. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Approval Factor
PMO
Program Setup Output
Delivery of Program Benefits
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
Program Charter Contents
Program Setup Phase
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Setup
19. Second phase of benefits management
Program Approval Factor
Governance
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Management Responsibilities
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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Project
Program Manager
21. A program must have more than one to function.
Program Initiation Phase
Components
Program Charter Approval
Program Setup Phase Activity
22. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Governance
Program Manager
Components
Phase-Gate Review Approach
23. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Benefit
Enterprise environmental factor
Program begins
Domain interaction
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
Program Initiation Phase
Phase-Gate Review
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program
25. Fifth lifecycle phase
Process Groups
Portfolio Management
Program Closure
Phase-Gate Reviews
26. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Project Management
Program Closure
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
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
Process Groups
Program Management Plan Content
Project
Domain interaction
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
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Closure
29. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Initiation Phase
Programs end
Program begins
30. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Management
Program Shutdown
Integration Testing
31. Pre-Program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
Strong communication skills
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Setup
32. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Components
Benefit
Domain interaction
Main Program Phases Five of Five
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.
Benefit
Program Shutdown
Program Initiation
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
34. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Transistion
Programs end
Delivery of Program Benefits
35. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Phase-Gate Reviews
Domain interaction
Program
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
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
Benefits Transistion
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Charter Contents
Benefits Management
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
Program Setup Phase Activity
Any time
Program
Program Closure Phase Activity
38. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Program
Programs
Program Setup
Program Charter
39. Program is ended by ________
Program Charter Approval
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefit
Steering Committee
40. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Project Domain
Enterprise environmental factor
Program begins
Program Manager
41. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Project
Program Closure Phase Activities
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits
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
Strong communication skills
Program Closure Phase
Program Management Responsibilities
Enterprise environmental factor
43. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Initiation
Program Domain
Program Setup Phase
Any time
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
Process assets
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Domain
45. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Setup
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
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.
Portfolio Components
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Charter Approval
47. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
48. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Any time
Means of Governance
Program Initiation
Benefits Analysis and Planning
49. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Approval Factor
Program Setup Phase
50. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Initiating and planning