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PMI: Pgmp Program Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. Components can begin ____ after the program begins.






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






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






7. 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






8. Organizational structure - culture and processes.






9. Conception - design - manufacturing - service - divestment






10. A program must have more than one to function.






11. 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






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






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






14. Program Closure






15. ___________ 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.






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






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






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






19. Program Management focuses on achieving the benefits aligned with the ______________________.






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






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






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






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






24. Fourth lifecycle phase






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Second lifecycle phase






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. Followed when benefits are delivered incrementally






33. Fifth lifecycle phase






34. Program is ended by ________






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






36. Inputs to Initiating and planning.






37. Third phase of benefits management






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. Later in the lifecycle the project status - risks - changes - costs - issues - and other information affecting the program are reported by the ________






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. Purpose is to progressively elaborate the program charter and develop the foundation for the program by establishing an infrastructure and building a detailed "road map" that provides direction on how the program will be managed and defines its key d






49. Second phase of benefits management






50. Fourth Phase of benefits management