SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
certifications
,
pmi
,
business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
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. 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
Program Charter Contents
Portfolio Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Portfolio Components
2. Begins when funding is approved or when the program manager is assigned.
Phase-Gate Review
Program Start
Program Management
Program Setup Phase
3. 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 Charter
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Portfolio
Program Setup Phase
4. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Program Initiation
Program
Portfolio Components
Program Management
5. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Portfolio
Components
Pre-Program Preparations
6. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Program Information Flow
Organizational Process Assets
Program Approval Factor
Integration Testing
7. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program begins
Program Setup Phase
Program Management Responsibilities
8. Focused on strategic alignment - investment appraisal - monitoring and controlling of opportunities and threats - benefits assessment and monitoring program outcomes.
Program Closure Phase Activities
Benefits Transistion
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Governance
9. Fourth Phase of benefits management
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Benefits Transistion
Benefits Identification
10. Program Setup
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program
Benefit
Program Setup Phase Activity
11. 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.
Relationship among projects within a program
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Program infrastructure
Program Closure Phase
12. Coordinates efforts between projects but does not directly manage the individual projects
Program Manager
Program Management
Benefits Management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
13. 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.
Pre-program Preparations
Benefits Transistion
Program Management
Main Program Phases Five of Five
14. First phase of benefits management
Program Management
Benefits Identification
Program Management Plan Content
Program Management Responsibilities
15. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.
Program
Governance
Portfolio
Any time
16. Management oversight of a program
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Programs end
Governance
Portfolio
17. Third phase of benefits management
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Relationship among projects within a program
Process assets
Benefits Realization
18. ___________ 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
Portfolio Management
Program
Program Initiation
19. 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
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Domain
Program Approval Factor
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
20. 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
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program
Any time
Domain interaction
21. Provides the basis of the progress to program setup - the development of the program's full business case - detailed program plans - and component charters.
Program Closure
Program Charter Approval
Benefits Transistion
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
22. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Shutdown
Process assets
Portfolio Management
23. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Portfolio Review Board
Program Closure Phase Activities
Integration Testing
Program Closure Phase
24. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.
Programs end
Program Life Cycle
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Information Flow
25. Program Initiation
Program Management Plan Content
Benefits Management
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Benefits Realization
26. 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
Benefits Management
Program Management
Program begins
27. An outcome of actions and behaviors that provides utility to the Organization.
Program Setup
Enterprise environmental factor
Benefit
Program Domain
28. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Manager
Program Shutdown
Process assets
29. Program is ended by ________
Domain interaction
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Portfolio
Steering Committee
30. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment
Portfolio
Product Lifecycle
Program infrastructure
Programs
31. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally
Parallel lifecycle to Program
Delivery of Program Benefits
Product Lifecycle
Program Charter Contents
32. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program Setup Phase
Program begins
Benefits Management
Program Benefit Delivery
33. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Benefits Transistion
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Main Program Phases Three of Five
34. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Steering Committee
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Initiation Phase
35. 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
Program Shutdown
Strong communication skills
Program Setup Output
Program Setup Phase Activity
36. 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
Components
Program Approval Factor
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
37. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Setup Output
Program Start
Program Charter Contents
38. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________
Process Groups
Program Start
Programs
Governance
39. Pre-Program Preparations
Project
Program Initiation
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Main Program Phases One of Five
40. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Means of Governance
Program Life Cycle
Integration Testing
41. 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 Transistion
Program Domain
PMO
Project Management
42. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Program Setup Phase Activity
Product Lifecycle
43. 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
Process Groups
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Management Plan Content
44. 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.
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Benefits Realization
Process assets
Program Setup Phase
45. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Integration Testing
Program Shutdown
Enterprise environmental factor
46. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Domain interaction
Benefits Realization Planning
Program Setup Phase
Any time
47. Third lifecycle phase
Phase-Gate Reviews
Project
Program Setup
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase Activity
48. Change impact in either lifecycle can be felt in the other.
Program Manager
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Project
Program Charter Contents
49. 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 Initiation
Program Charter
Portfolio
Process Groups
50. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Portfolio
Benefits Transistion
Program Governance
Organizational Process Assets