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PMI Project Management Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An intentional activity that ensures the future performance of the project work is aligned with the project management plan.
Defect Repair
Preventive Action
Risk Avoidance
Three-Point Estimate
2. A risk that would have a positive effect on one or more project objectives.
Path Divergence
Opportunity
Earned Value
Baseline
3. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Constraint
Risk Avoidance
Performing Organization
Project Scope Statement
4. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to reduce the probability of occurrence or impact of a risk.
Pessimistic Duration
Risk Mitigation
Late Start Date
Preventive Action
5. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Code of Accounts
Schedule Model Analysis
Project Schedule
Program Management Office
6. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Defect Repair
Risk Acceptance
Risk Avoidance
Successor Activity
7. An activity that can be planned and measured and that yields a specific output. (Note: Discrete effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Schedule Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
Discrete Effort
Finish-to-Finish
8. A dependency between two activities - or between an activity and a milestone.
Resource Calendar
Project Phase
Optimistic Duration
Logical Relationship
9. A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product - service - or result.
Late Finish Date
Risk Register
Risk Acceptance
Project
10. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Project Life Cycle
Critical Path Activity
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Resource Calendar
11. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Project Calendar
Cost Performance Index
Change Control
12. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Change Request
Effort
Estimate at Completion
Schedule Performance Index
13. The series of phases that represent the evolution of a product - from concept through delivery - growth - maturity - and to retirement.
Cost Management Plan
Milestone
Resource Breakdown Structure
Product Life Cycle
14. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how an organization's quality policies will be implemented.
Successor Activity
Progressive Elaboration
Resource Leveling
Quality Management Plan
15. In the critical path method - the latest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the project completion date - and any schedule constraints.
Late Finish Date
Effort
Program
Predecessor Activity
16. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Project Management
Finish-to-Start
Discrete Effort
Level of Effort
17. A bar chart of schedule information where activities are listed on the vertical axis - dates are shown on the horizontal axis - and activity durations are shown as horizontal bars placed according to start and finish dates.
Project Scope Statement
Project Management
Gantt Chart
Constraint
18. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how the roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships - and staff management will be addressed and structured.
Human Resource Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Start
Project Management
19. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Project Calendar
Project Schedule
Estimate at Completion
Performing Organization
20. A group of related schedule activities aggregated and displayed as a single activity.
Early Start Date
Summary Activity
Decision Tree Analysis
Gantt Chart
21. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Acceptance
Variance Analysis
Program
Risk Breakdown Structure
22. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Program Management Office
Fast Tracking
Schedule Management Plan
Earned Value
23. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any successor or violating a schedule constraint.
Free Float
Project Scope
Earned Value Management
Change Request
24. An individual - group - or organization who may affect - be affected by - or perceive itself to be affected by a decision - activity - or outcome of a project - program - or portfolio.
Portfolio Balancing
Start-to-Start
Cost Management Plan
Stakeholder
25. A measure of schedule efficiency expressed as the ratio of earned value to planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Path Convergence
Analogous Estimating
Forward Pass
26. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Variance
Deliverable
Level of Effort
27. The series of phases that a project passes through from its initiation to its closure.
Risk Transference
Change Control Board
Product Life Cycle
Project Life Cycle
28. A grid that links product requirements from their origin to the deliverables that satisfy them.
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Requirement
Staffing Management Plan
Early Start Date
29. The process of optimizing the mix of portfolio components to further the strategic objectives of the organization.
Schedule Compression
Staffing Management Plan
Portfolio Balancing
Project Life Cycle
30. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Communication Management Plan
Finish-to-Finish
Predecessor Activity
Variance Analysis
31. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Schedule Baseline
Parametric Estimating
Total Float
32. A measure of the cost performance that is required to be achieved with the remaining resources in order to meet a specified management goal - expressed as the ratio of the cost to finish the outstanding work to the remaining budget.
To-Complete Performance Index
Path Divergence
Early Start Date
Risk Transference
33. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Estimate to Complete
Opportunity
Variance at Completion
Portfolio Management
34. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Model Analysis
Gantt Chart
Risk Management Plan
35. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Start
Control Account
Risk Category
Discrete Effort
36. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Decision Tree Analysis
Earned Value Management
Critical Path
Resource Calendar
37. A component of the project - program - or portfolio management plan that describes how risk management activities will be structured and performed.
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Start-to-Start
Risk Management Plan
Trigger Condition
38. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Procurement Management Plan
Risk Acceptance
Decomposition
Quality Management Plan
39. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Critical Chain Method
Communication Management Plan
Variance at Completion
Risk
40. A grid for mapping the probability of each risk occurrence and its impact on project objectives if that risk occurs.
Constraint
Earned Value Management
Trigger Condition
Probability and Impact Matrix
41. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Scope Management Plan
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Decomposition
Cost Performance Index
42. A technique in which start and finish dates are adjusted based on resource constraints with the goal of balancing demand for resources with the available supply.
Defect Repair
To-Complete Performance Index
Lessons Learned
Resource Leveling
43. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to a program to meet the program requirements and to obtain benefits and control not available by managing projects individually.
Sponsor
Probability and Impact Matrix
Program Management
Project Management Plan
44. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Cost Performance Index
Earned Value Management
Program
Predecessor Activity
45. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Percent Complete
Lag
Schedule Baseline
Data Date
46. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Percent Complete
Risk
Apportioned Effort
Schedule Management Plan
47. A group of related projects - subprograms and program activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually.
Pessimistic Duration
Program
Deliverable
Schedule Baseline
48. The description of the project scope - major deliverables - assumptions - and constraints.
Schedule Management Plan
Program Management Office
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Scope Statement
49. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Corrective Action
Critical Path Activity
Summary Activity
Late Finish Date
50. A risk response strategy whereby the project team acts to eliminate the threat or protect the project from its impact.
Crashing
Risk Avoidance
Actual Cost
Change Request