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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. Delivery of Program Benefits






5. 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






6. Second lifecycle phase






7. Fourth lifecycle phase






8. Fourth Phase of benefits management






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Third lifecycle phase






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






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






21. Management oversight of a program






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






26. Program Closure






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






28. Program Initiation






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






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






31. First lifecycle phase






32. 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.






33. Pre-Program Preparations






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. Second phase of benefits management






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






42. Complies with the needs of corporate governance and also ensures that the expected benefits are realized in a predictable and coordinated manner.






43. 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






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






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






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






47. May not necessarily be interdependent or directly related






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






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






50. 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.