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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control






5. ___________ 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.






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






7. Early in the lifecycle the desired goals and benefits as well as the approach for managing are directed by the ________






8. 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






9. 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






10. First phase of benefits management






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






12. 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






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






14. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






15. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.






16. 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.






17. First lifecycle phase






18. 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.






19. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






20. Delivery of Program Benefits






21. 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






22. Program Setup






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Program Closure






27. Program Initiation






28. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






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






32. Management oversight of a program






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






34. 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.






35. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.






36. A common outcome or a collective capability that is delivered






37. 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






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






39. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






40. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.






41. 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






42. 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






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






44. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.






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






46. Third lifecycle phase






47. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






48. 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






49. 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






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