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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






2. 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.






3. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Fifth lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






18. First lifecycle phase






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






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






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






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






23. Program Closure






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






25. 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






26. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






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






28. 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






29. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






30. 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






31. ___________ 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.






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






33. 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






34. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






35. 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






36. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. Also known as Executive Steering Group may issue a program mandate which defines the strategic objectives and benefits that the program is expected to deliver.






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






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






45. Program Initiation






46. Management oversight of a program






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. Fourth Phase of benefits management