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PMI Project Management Vocab
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1. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Probability and Impact Matrix
Estimate to Complete
Late Start Date
Activity
2. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Path Divergence
Estimate to Complete
Project Life Cycle
Assumption
3. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Secondary Risk
Portfolio Balancing
Lead
Assumption
4. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can start based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Lessons Learned
Early Start Date
What-If Sce
Threat
5. The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time - expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost.
Cost Variance
Resource Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating
Stakeholder
6. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Early Start Date
Schedule Compression
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project Calendar
7. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Data Date
Project
Project Management Office
Schedule Management Plan
8. The expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete.
Discrete Effort
Logical Relationship
Critical Path Method
Estimate at Completion
9. A significant point or event in a project - program - or portfolio.
Project Charter
Risk Breakdown Structure
Milestone
Cost Variance
10. An estimating technique in which an algorithm is used to calculate cost or duration based on historical data and project parameters.
Lead
Project Phase
Parametric Estimating
Requirements Traceability Matrix
11. The approved version of a schedule model that can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison to actual results.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Secondary Risk
Schedule Performance Index
Schedule Baseline
12. The uncontrolled expansion to product or project scope without adjustments to time - cost - and resources.
Change Control
Scope Creep
Scope Baseline
Project Manager
13. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has finished.
Change Control Board
Finish-to-Start
Project Management Plan
Progressive Elaboration
14. Conditions - not under the immediate control of the team - that influence - constrain - or direct the project - program - or portfolio.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Opportunity
Backward Pass
Three-Point Estimate
15. A component of the project or program management plan that establishes the activities for developing - monitoring - and controlling the project or program.
Critical Path Activity
Start-to-Start
Schedule Management Plan
Schedule Model Analysis
16. The number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component - often expressed in hours - days - or weeks.
Effort
Portfolio Balancing
Backward Pass
Schedule Model Analysis
17. An earned value management technique used to indicate performance trends by using a graph that displays cumulative costs over a specific time period.
S-Curve Analysis
Three-Point Estimate
Backward Pass
Budget at Completion
18. A review at the end of a phase in which a decision is made to continue to the next phase - to continue with modification - or to end a project or program.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Phase Gate
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Successor Activity
19. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on one or more project objectives.
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Lessons Learned
Risk
Risk Avoidance
20. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Project Manager
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Management Office
Finish-to-Start
21. A document in which the results of risk analysis and risk response planning are recorded.
Schedule Performance Index
Apportioned Effort
Risk Register
Scope Management Plan
22. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Secondary Risk
Data Date
Cost Performance Index
Project Calendar
23. A group of potential causes of risk.
S-Curve Analysis
Risk Category
Risk Management Plan
Cost Performance Index
24. The approved version of a scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) - and its associated WBS dictionary - which can be changed only through formal change control procedures and is used as a basis for comparison.
Scope Baseline
Percent Complete
Project Management Office
Project Scope Statement
25. A numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Schedule Baseline
Rolling Wave Planning
Resource Leveling
Code of Accounts
26. A process used to investigate or analyze the output of the schedule model in order to optimize the schedule
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
Schedule Baseline
Schedule Model Analysis
27. A methodology that combines scope - schedule - and resource measurements to assess project performance and progress.
Staffing Management Plan
Free Float
Earned Value Management
Crashing
28. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Start-to-Start
Stakeholder
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Parametric Estimating
29. A process whereby modifications to documents - deliverables - or baselines associated with the project are identified - documented - approved - or rejected.
Project Schedule
Backward Pass
Actual Cost
Change Control
30. A management structure that standardizes the program-related governance processes and facilitates the sharing of resources - methodologies - tools - and techniques.
Risk Management Plan
Program Management Office
Schedule Model Analysis
Pessimistic Duration
31. An activity that does not produce definitive end products and is measured by the passage of time. (Note: Level of effort is one of three earned value management [EVM] types of activities used to measure work performance.)
Organizational Breakdown Structure
Portfolio Balancing
Actual Cost
Level of Effort
32. A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Change Control
Early Start Date
Cost Management Plan
Project Charter
33. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Fast Tracking
Project Calendar
Corrective Action
Product Life Cycle
34. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Bottom-up Estimating
Estimate at Completion
Most Likely Duration
Project Management
35. A collection of logically related project activities that culminates in the completion of one or more deliverables.
Schedule Model Analysis
Variance at Completion
Data Date
Project Phase
36. An estimate of the shortest activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Project Scope
Risk
Optimistic Duration
Schedule Performance Index
37. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Control Account
Predecessor Activity
Data Date
Change Control
38. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Project Management Plan
What-If Sce
Cost Performance Index
Analogous Estimating
39. A measure of schedule performance expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value.
Crashing
Resource Breakdown Structure
Schedule Variance
Schedule Baseline
40. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Data Date
Product Life Cycle
Project Scope
Earned Value
41. A set of conditions that is required to be met before deliverables are accepted.
Acceptance Criteria
What-If Sce
Backward Pass
Schedule Performance Index
42. The centralized management of one or more portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.
Scope Management Plan
Portfolio Management
Forward Pass
Cost Management Plan
43. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Project Calendar
Risk Breakdown Structure
Level of Effort
Cost Management Plan
44. The sequence of activities that represents the longest path through a project - which determines the shortest possible duration.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Planned Value
Scope Management Plan
Critical Path
45. In the critical path method - the earliest possible point in time when the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity can finish based on the schedule network logic - the data date - and any schedule constraints.
Early Finish Date
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Finish-to-Start
Data Date
46. A formal proposal to modify any document - deliverable - or baseline.
Portfolio
Effort
Change Request
Acceptance Criteria
47. An intentional activity to modify a nonconforming product or product component.
Lag
Scope Creep
Apportioned Effort
Defect Repair
48. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Risk Mitigation
Risk Register
Path Convergence
Decision Tree Analysis
49. An estimate of the most probable activity duration that takes into account all of the known variables that could affect performance.
Phase Gate
Schedule Performance Index
Change Control
Most Likely Duration
50. Any activity on the critical path in a project schedule.
WBS Dictionary
Critical Path Activity
Precedence Diagramming Method
Communication Management Plan