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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






2. Management oversight of a program






3. 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






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. Fifth lifecycle phase






7. 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






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






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






10. Program Closure






11. 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






12. Approval from the strategic governing board to proceed to the next program phase which is program setup - Program charter or program mandate.






13. 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






14. 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






15. Second phase of benefits management






16. Third phase of benefits management






17. Lead to shutdown of the program organization and infrastructure.






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






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






24. Third lifecycle phase






25. 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.






26. 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






27. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






28. 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






29. 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






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






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






32. Pre-Program Preparations






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






34. 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.






35. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






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






37. Program is ended by ________






38. Included the organization's knowledge bases such as best practices - lessons learned & historical information - such as completed schedules - risk data - and earned valued data.






39. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






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






41. ___________ 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.






42. Clarifies distinctions among portfolio - program - and project management.






43. 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






44. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






47. 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.






48. Fourth lifecycle phase






49. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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