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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. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Project
Program Setup Output
Project Domain
Phase-Gate Review Approach
2. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Program Setup Phase
Project Management
Relationship among projects within a program
Means of Governance
3. 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.
Program Charter Approval
Program Charter
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Setup Phase
4. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Steering Committee
Portfolio
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter Approval
5. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program infrastructure
Integration Testing
Benefits Management
Program Charter Contents
6. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Process assets
Program Setup Phase
Program Information Flow
Program Setup
7. 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
Benefits Realization Planning
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Benefits Identification
Program Management Responsibilities
8. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Strong communication skills
Organizational Process Assets
Benefits Transistion
Pre-Program Preparations
9. A program must have more than one to function.
Benefits Management
Benefits Realization Planning
Program
Components
10. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Program Life Cycle
Project Domain
Program Initiation
Relationship among projects within a program
11. 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.
Means of Governance
Program Setup Phase
Program Information Flow
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
12. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Governance
Program begins
Any time
Program Setup Phase
13. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Project
Benefit
Program Closure
Program Charter Approval
14. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Programs
Portfolio Components
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Charter Approval
15. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Manager
Program Life Cycle
16. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Integration Testing
Programs end
Product Lifecycle
PMO
17. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Project
Program Charter
Program Management
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
18. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Charter
Project
Initiating and planning
19. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Setup Output
Portfolio Management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
20. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Portfolio
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization Planning
21. 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
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Setup Phase
Process assets
Pre-Program Phase Activity
22. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Steering Committee
Benefits Realization Planning
23. 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
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Domain interaction
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
24. 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
Program Setup
Organizational Process Assets
PMO
Project
25. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Manager
Organizational Process Assets
Program Setup Output
26. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Portfolio Management
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Process Groups
27. 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.
Pre-program Preparations
Program Setup
Portfolio Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
28. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Project
Benefits Management
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Domain interaction
29. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Program Setup
Program Domain
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Charter
30. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup
Any time
Main Program Phases Two of Five
31. 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
Project Domain
Enterprise environmental factor
Program infrastructure
Program Management Plan Content
32. Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Main Program Phases One of Five
Pre-program Preparations
Program Management Plan Content
33. Second phase of benefits management
Program Management
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio
Benefits Analysis and Planning
34. 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.
Integration Testing
Program Governance
Program Management
Benefits Management
35. Third lifecycle phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Closure
Domain interaction
Program Setup
36. ___________ 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.
Programs end
Organizational Process Assets
Portfolio Management
Means of Governance
37. Second lifecycle phase
Benefits Management
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Initiation
Program Charter Contents
38. Program Closure
Program Manager
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Management
Program Approval Factor
39. 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.
Portfolio Management
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Manager
Program Initiation Phase
40. 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
Portfolio Management
Program Closure Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
Phase-Gate Review
41. 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
Program Charter
Relationship among projects within a program
Strong communication skills
Program Approval Factor
42. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Portfolio
Benefits Management
Product Lifecycle
Program Closure Phase
43. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program begins
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
44. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Benefits Identification
Program begins
Program Setup
Benefits Management
45. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Governance
Enterprise environmental factor
Program infrastructure
Project Management
46. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Life Cycle
Main Program Phases One of Five
47. Fifth lifecycle phase
Benefits Identification
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Closure
Main Program Phases Three of Five
48. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Portfolio Management
Benefits Identification
Means of Governance
49. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Contents
50. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Pre-program Preparations
Project Domain
Process assets
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives