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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. Inputs to Initiating and planning.
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio Management
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program
2. Application of knowledge - tools - skills and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements
Project
Benefits Transistion
Portfolio Review Board
Project Management
3. Comprised of projects that focus on achieving their individual requirements.
Programs
Benefits Management
Program Charter
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
4. Influence the program's success and include any or all processes related to the assets.
Program Life Cycle
Organizational Process Assets
Components
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
5. Pre-Program Preparations
Program Information Flow
Program infrastructure
Main Program Phases One of Five
Program Charter
6. Second phase of benefits management
Program Setup
Benefits Analysis and Planning
Phase-Gate Reviews
Enterprise environmental factor
7. Scope definition and planning - Requirements definition - decomposition - validation and management - Benefits definition - decomposition - management - cost and realization - Activity definition and sequencing - Duration estimates - Sched
Program Benefit Delivery
Pre-program Preparations
Program Setup Output
Programs end
8. The formal document that consolidates all the available information about the program.
Phase-Gate Review
Pre-Program Preparations
Program Life Cycle
Program Charter
9. 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.
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure
Benefit
Program Charter Contents
10. Program Closure
Main Program Phases Five of Five
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Program Manager
Main Program Phases One of Five
11. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.
Program Approval Factor
Program Initiation Phase
Program Closure Phase Activities
Product Lifecycle
12. 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
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Portfolio Components
Process Groups
13. 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
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
Process Groups
Project
14. 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 Setup Phase
Program Setup Phase
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Charter
15. Often occurs immediately after product delivery and customer acceptance. Sometimes occurs after product transitions into an operational phase and is managed by normal operations.
Relationship among projects within a program
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Program Shutdown
Program Management Responsibilities
16. Fifth lifecycle phase
Program Closure
Domain interaction
Program Management Plan Content
Program Approval Factor
17. Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Charter
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Management Responsibilities
Program Benefit Delivery
18. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.
Domain interaction
Program Initiation Phase
Portfolio Management
Benefits Management
19. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________
Benefits Management
Portfolio Review Board
Project Domain
Steering Committee
20. 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 Approval Factor
Program Management Plan Content
Portfolio and subsequently with organizational objectives
Benefits Transistion
21. Status updates - audits - phase-gate reviews - change control
Benefits Management
Strong communication skills
Means of Governance
Program Closure
22. One of the truest measures of an organization's intent - direction - and progress. Guides investment decisions - resource allocation - and priorities of an organization.
Benefits Realization Planning
Components
Governance
Portfolio
23. 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
Benefits Identification
Phase-Gate Review
Program Closure
Components
24. First phase of benefits management
Delivery of Program Benefits Phase
Phase-Gate Review Approach
Integration Testing
Benefits Identification
25. Program Manager must have _________________ to deal with various stakeholders including team members - sponsors - managing directors - customers - vendors - and senior management - and other program stakeholders.
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Strong communication skills
Program Manager
Program Benefit Delivery
26. Translated by the program team from the Initiating and Planning processes.
Portfolio
Strong communication skills
Main Program Phases Four of Five
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
27. Focuses on assuring that programs and projects are selected - prioritized and staffed with respect to their alignment with organizational strategies.
Program Shutdown
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Components
Program Manager
28. 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.
Pre-program Preparations
Pre-Program Phase Activity
Benefit
Project Management
29. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related
Benefits Realization Planning
Portfolio Components
Initiating and planning
Program Management Plan Content
30. Fourth lifecycle phase
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Benefits Identification
Delivery of Program Benefits
Program Domain
31. Second lifecycle phase
Program Initiation
Program Initiation Phase
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Product Lifecycle
32. 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
Benefit
Any time
Program Charter Contents
33. Often the most time and cost-intensive effort of the program.
Governance
Integration Testing
Program begins
Portfolio Components
34. 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
Domain interaction
Program Setup Phase
Program
Phase-Gate Reviews
35. First lifecycle phase
Pre-Program Preparations
Portfolio Components
Program Charter Contents
Phase-Gate Reviews
36. A means of achieving organizational goals and objectives that are so large scale that they cannot be achieved by single projects.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Management
Program
Portfolio Review Board
37. Can happen all at once at the end or incrementally unlike projects which usually deliver only at the end.
Program
Program Benefit Delivery
Portfolio
Benefits Identification
38. 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
PMO
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
Program Lifecycle relationship to Product Lifecycle
39. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program life cycle.
Program infrastructure
Benefits Management
Program Setup Phase
Program Closure Phase Activity
40. Requires the establishment of processes and measures for tracking and assessing benefits throughout the program lifecycle.
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Portfolio Management
Benefits Management
Benefits Identification
41. Purpose is to execute a controlled close down of the program.
Program Domain
Strong communication skills
Program begins
Program Closure Phase
42. 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 Setup
Program Charter Approval
Program Benefit Delivery
Program Setup Output
43. Organizational structure - culture and processes.
Program Domain
Program Life Cycle
Program Setup
Enterprise environmental factor
44. Third lifecycle phase
Phase-Gate Review
Program Information Flow
Project Domain
Program Setup
45. 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
Government or industry standards (regulations - quality - etc.)
Program Start
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Program Charter Contents
46. Management oversight of a program
Benefits Management
PMO
Pre-Program Preparations
Governance
47. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.
Program Governance
Program Initiation Phase Activity
Process assets
PMO
48. Program Initiation
Main Program Phases Two of Five
Strong communication skills
Program Setup Phase
Program Charter
49. Program Setup
Main Program Phases Three of Five
Program Approval Factor
Program Closure Phase Activities
Governance
50. 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.
Strategic goals and benefits - funding allocations - requirements - timelines and constraints
Program Information Flow
Program Scope - Deliverables - budget and schedule
Pre-program Preparations