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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.
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. 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.
Governance
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Setup Phase
Program Shutdown
2. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program Charter Approval
Portfolio Components
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Program Benefit Delivery
3. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Life Cycle
Program Setup Phase Activity
Pre-program Preparations
Main Program Phases One of Five
4. Third phase of benefits management
Benefits Realization
Relationship among projects within a program
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Benefits Analysis and Planning
5. Delivery of Program Benefits
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Program Setup Phase
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Portfolio
6. 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
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Charter Approval
PMO
7. 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 Management
Program Shutdown
Program Initiation
8. A group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. Multiple related projects that are initiated during the program's life cycle and are managed in a coordinated fashi
Program
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Management
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
9. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Portfolio Components
Program Manager
Program begins
Enterprise environmental factor
10. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Information Flow
Program Charter
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.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
PMO
Benefits Realization
Program Information Flow
12. 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
Program Domain
Delivery of Program Benefits
Portfolio
Pre-program Preparations
13. 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.
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Project Management
Program Setup Output
Program Initiation Phase
14. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Strong communication skills
Benefits Realization Planning
Benefits Transistion
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
15. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program infrastructure
Phase-Gate Reviews
Benefit
16. 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 Contents
Program Approval Factor
Program Information Flow
Project Management
17. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Means of Governance
Program
Program Closure Phase Activity
Portfolio
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.
Programs end
Program Setup Phase
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program infrastructure
19. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.
Program Start
Organizational Process Assets
Program begins
Pre-Program Phase Activity
20. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio
Program Governance
21. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Benefits Management
Portfolio
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Closure Phase Activity
22. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Any time
Portfolio Review Board
Project Domain
Program begins
23. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Portfolio
Benefits Realization
Program Governance
Program Shutdown
24. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Process Groups
Programs
Program Setup Output
Program Manager
25. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Enterprise environmental factor
Project Domain
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Organizational Process Assets
26. Program Closure
Components
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Domain
27. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Setup Phase
Delivery of Program Benefits
Benefits Identification
Program Setup Phase Activity
28. 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.
Phase-Gate Review
Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio Review Board
29. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Management Responsibilities
Main Program Phases One of Five
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Program Closure Phase
30. ___________ 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.
PMO
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Programs end
31. Second phase of benefits management
Program Benefit Delivery
Project
Program Setup Phase Activity
Benefits Analysis and Planning
32. 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
Portfolio
Enterprise environmental factor
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
33. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
PMO
Program Setup Phase
Pre-program Preparations
Portfolio Management
34. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Program Charter
Process assets
Program
35. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Setup Phase
Portfolio Management
Benefits Realization
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
36. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Phase-Gate Reviews
Program Charter Contents
Benefit
37. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Project
Program Setup Phase Activity
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
38. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Portfolio Components
Program Life Cycle
Program Charter
Program Management Responsibilities
39. 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.
Organizational Process Assets
Pre-program Preparations
Project Management
Components
40. 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
Components
Governance
Benefits Analysis and Planning
41. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________
Pre-program Preparations
Program Charter Contents
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Domain
42. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Phase-Gate Review
Program Initiation
Project Management
43. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Portfolio Review Board
Integration Testing
Product Lifecycle
Project Management
44. 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 Initiation Phase
Benefits Management
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Start
45. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Project Management
Integration Testing
Program
Program Setup Phase Activity
46. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Enterprise environmental factor
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Portfolio Management
Strong communication skills
47. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Relationship among projects within a program
Program Domain
Program Life Cycle
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
48. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Setup Phase
Program Setup
Program Manager
Enterprise environmental factor
49. 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 Setup
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Program Closure Phase Activity
Process assets
50. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Benefits Management
Program Benefit Delivery
Program begins
Program Charter