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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Fourth lifecycle phase






6. Recommended to assist program control and management as well as to facilitate program governance.






7. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.






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






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






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






16. 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






17. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






18. Similar to program and project domains - portfolio managemetn and program management domains interact in their ________






19. _________when funding is approved or program manager is assigned.






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






21. Program Closure






22. Second phase of benefits management






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






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






25. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.






26. Management oversight of a program






27. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






32. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.






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






34. ___________ 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.






35. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.






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






37. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.






38. Fourth Phase of benefits management






39. Program Initiation






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






41. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.






42. The program has received the "approval in principle" from a selection committee.






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.






44. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched






45. Oversees the progress of the program and the delivery of the coordinated benefits from its components. Implementation is critical for the success of a program since it is difficult for an individual to manage complex programs.






46. Pre-Program Preparations






47. 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






48. First lifecycle phase






49. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.






50. 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