Test your basic knowledge |

PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






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






3. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






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






5. Program Initiation






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






7. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






8. 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.






9. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. ___________ 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.






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






15. Third lifecycle phase






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






17. Defines program management processes - manages schedule and budget at the program level - Defines program quality standards and components - Provides document configuration management - Provides centralized support for managing changes and tracking r






18. 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.






19. 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






20. Management oversight of a program






21. Third phase of benefits management






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






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






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






29. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






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






32. 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.






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






34. Program Setup






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






36. Second phase of benefits management






37. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






39. Program is ended by ________






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






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






49. Fifth lifecycle phase






50. First phase of benefits management