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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. 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
Strong communication skills
Program infrastructure
Project Management
2. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Program Life Cycle
Programs end
Program Closure Phase
Main Program Phases Two of Five
3. Second lifecycle phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Initiation
Phase-Gate Review Approach
4. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Program Charter
Portfolio Review Board
Program Charter Approval
Pre-program Preparations
5. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Phase-Gate Review
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Closure Phase Activities
6. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Charter Approval
Organizational Process Assets
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
7. 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 Management Responsibilities
Program Closure Phase Activities
Program Management
Program Setup Phase
8. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Portfolio Management
Project Domain
Program Benefit Delivery
Project
9. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Strong communication skills
Enterprise environmental factor
Program Management Plan Content
Phase-Gate Review Approach
10. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Closure Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Parallel lifecycle to Program
11. 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
Portfolio Review Board
Product Lifecycle
Benefits Realization Planning
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
12. Second phase of benefits management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program
Program Closure
Benefits Analysis and Planning
13. Program Setup
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Process assets
Program Initiation Phase
Main Program Phases Three of Five
14. Fourth lifecycle phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Closure
Program
Program Charter Contents
15. Program is ended by ________
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Steering Committee
Program Management Responsibilities
PMO
16. 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
Benefits Management
Benefits Realization
Integration Testing
17. 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
Program Setup Phase
Governance
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Governance
18. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Management Plan Content
Program Charter
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Portfolio Management
19. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Program Shutdown
20. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Benefits Management
Strong communication skills
Relationship among projects within a program
Process assets
21. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Program Charter
Program Life Cycle
Process Groups
Programs
22. First phase of benefits management
Portfolio
Benefits Identification
Program Setup Phase
Parallel lifecycle to Program
23. 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
Benefits Realization Planning
PMO
Program Setup Phase
Program Shutdown
24. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Process Groups
Product Lifecycle
Program Management Plan Content
25. Management oversight of a program
Program Closure Phase Activity
Governance
Program Manager
Program Setup Phase
26. A program must have more than one to function.
Components
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Benefits Realization
27. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Information Flow
Process assets
Steering Committee
28. 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
Program Setup Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Strong communication skills
29. 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
Any time
Components
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Approval Factor
30. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Delivery of Program Benefits
Enterprise environmental factor
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Programs end
31. Delivery of Program Benefits
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Portfolio Review Board
Program Setup Phase
Program
32. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Means of Governance
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program begins
33. 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 Benefit Delivery
Project Management
Benefits Identification
Program Management Plan Content
34. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service or result
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Programs end
Program Benefit Delivery
Project
35. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Domain interaction
Portfolio
Benefit
Program Management Responsibilities
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.
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Programs end
Program Start
Program Initiation
37. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program
Strong communication skills
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
38. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Portfolio Components
Any time
Program Domain
Parallel lifecycle to Program
39. 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
Integration Testing
Program Setup
Phase-Gate Review
Program Setup Phase
40. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Initiating and planning
Steering Committee
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Management
41. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program
Program Initiation
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
42. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Management
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Project Domain
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
43. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Setup Phase
PMO
Process assets
44. 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
Project
Program Setup Phase Activity
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Information Flow
45. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Organizational Process Assets
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Closure Phase
46. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program
Portfolio Components
Program Management
Program Closure Phase
47. 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
Phase-Gate Review
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio Management
Program Approval Factor
48. 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 Setup Phase
Program Information Flow
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Initiating and planning
49. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Program Setup Phase
PMO
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
50. Program Closure
Program Management
Program Setup Output
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program Shutdown