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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. 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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Setup Phase Activity
Portfolio
Program Setup
2. 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
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Phase-Gate Reviews
Programs
Program Charter Contents
3. A program must have more than one to function.
Steering Committee
Process assets
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Components
4. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program infrastructure
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Portfolio
Governance
5. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Phase-Gate Reviews
Process Groups
Phase-Gate Review Approach
6. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Program Charter Contents
Program Charter
Phase-Gate Reviews
Domain interaction
7. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Relationship among projects within a program
8. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Charter Approval
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Benefits Realization
9. 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
Program Start
Program Management Responsibilities
Project Management
Portfolio Management
10. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefit
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Shutdown
11. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Closure Phase
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Review Board
Program
12. Part of the Program Initiation phase and is one of its main outputs.
Benefits Transistion
Programs end
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Benefits Realization Planning
13. 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 Components
Program Closure Phase Activity
Phase-Gate Review
Program Initiation Phase Activity
14. First lifecycle phase
Program Life Cycle
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Closure Phase
15. 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
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefits Management
Phase-Gate Reviews
16. Second lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Information Flow
Program Initiation
17. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
PMO
Integration Testing
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
18. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Project Management
Strong communication skills
Enterprise environmental factor
19. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Portfolio
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Setup
Project Domain
20. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Program infrastructure
Integration Testing
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Product Lifecycle
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.
Organizational Process Assets
Program Shutdown
Process assets
Benefits Identification
22. Delivery of Program Benefits
Process assets
Program Information Flow
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Closure Phase
23. Program Setup
Program Closure Phase Activities
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Product Lifecycle
Portfolio
24. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Management Plan Content
Program Manager
25. Management oversight of a program
Program Information Flow
Governance
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Portfolio
26. 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
PMO
Enterprise environmental factor
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Closure Phase Activity
27. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Phase-Gate Reviews
Delivery of Program Benefits
Means of Governance
28. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Portfolio Components
Benefits Management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefit
29. Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio Review Board
Portfolio
Main Program Phases One of Five
Benefits Management
30. 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.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Reviews
Pre-program Preparations
31. 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 Approval
Program Governance
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Approval Factor
32. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Management Plan Content
Program Setup
Program Setup Phase
Project Domain
33. 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
Programs
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Life Cycle
34. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Project
Organizational Process Assets
35. Program Closure
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Domain interaction
36. In a portfolio the program's ____________ receive inputs from the portfolio domain.
Initiating and planning
Process Groups
Program Closure Phase
Benefits Management
37. Third lifecycle phase
Program Setup
Phase-Gate Review
Organizational Process Assets
Program Management Plan Content
38. 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 Identification
Program
Program Start
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
39. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
PMO
Benefits Realization
Program Manager
40. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Charter Approval
Program Charter
Portfolio Management
41. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Benefits Management
Program Start
Program Benefit Delivery
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
42. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Setup
Program Initiation Phase Activity
43. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Portfolio Management
Program
Program Benefit Delivery
Initiating and planning
44. 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
Program Setup Phase
Project Domain
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Management Plan Content
45. 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 Setup Phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Domain
Program Setup Output
46. 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 Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Domain
47. 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.
Benefits Identification
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Information Flow
Benefits Transistion
48. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Components
Benefits Transistion
Delivery of Program Benefits
49. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Charter Approval
Programs end
Program Closure
Benefits Realization
50. Second phase of benefits management
Program Initiation Phase
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Process Groups
Programs