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PMI Project Management Vocab
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A point in time when the status of the project is recorded.
Level of Effort
Requirement
Cost Variance
Data Date
2. A risk response strategy whereby the project team shifts the impact of a threat to a third party - together with ownership of the response.
Change Control
Critical Chain Method
Organizational Process Assets
Risk Transference
3. The amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a predecessor activity.
Project Management Plan
Resource Leveling
Opportunity
Lead
4. The application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Secondary Risk
Early Start Date
Deliverable
Project Management
5. A calendar that identifies working days and shifts that are available for scheduled activities.
Start-to-Start
Project Calendar
Organizational Project Management Maturity
Risk Acceptance
6. 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.
Gantt Chart
Variance at Completion
Project Management
Path Divergence
7. The level of an organization's ability to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable - controllable - and reliable manner.
Critical Chain Method
Crashing
Cost Variance
Organizational Project Management Maturity
8. 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.
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Schedule Management Plan
Project Schedule
To-Complete Performance Index
9. A diagramming and calculation technique for evaluating the implications of a chain of multiple options in the presence of uncertainty.
Decision Tree Analysis
Project Calendar
Cost Variance
Budget at Completion
10. An output of a schedule model that presents linked activities with planned dates - durations - milestones - and resources.
Summary Activity
Project Schedule
Performing Organization
Late Start Date
11. 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.
Optimistic Duration
Summary Activity
Project Calendar
Cost Variance
12. The person assigned by the performing organization to lead the team that is responsible for achieving the project objectives.
Level of Effort
Project Manager
Project Charter
Parametric Estimating
13. A relationship in which a schedule activity has more than one predecessor.
Path Convergence
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Scope Creep
Sponsor
14. An intentional activity that realigns the performance of the project work with the project management plan.
Corrective Action
Product Life Cycle
Risk Management Plan
Preventive Action
15. A document that provides detailed deliverable - activity - and scheduling information about each component in the work breakdown structure.
WBS Dictionary
Schedule Model
Defect Repair
Critical Path Method
16. The realized cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period.
Bottom-up Estimating
Actual Cost
Variance at Completion
Critical Path
17. A calendar that identifies the working days and shifts upon which each specific resource is available.
Predecessor Activity
Secondary Risk
Resource Calendar
Program Management Office
18. An activity that logically comes before a dependent activity in a schedule.
Schedule Compression
Requirement
Procurement Management Plan
Predecessor Activity
19. The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Variance Analysis
Earned Value
Predecessor Activity
Defect Repair
20. A risk that arises as a direct result of implementing a risk response.
Staffing Management Plan
Secondary Risk
Data Date
Scope Management Plan
21. A critical path method technique for calculating the early start and early finish dates by working forward through the schedule model from the project start date or a given point in time.
Portfolio Balancing
Sponsor
Communication Management Plan
Forward Pass
22. The amount of time that a schedule activity can be delayed or extended from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
Forward Pass
Resource Breakdown Structure
Total Float
Path Convergence
23. 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.
Most Likely Duration
S-Curve Analysis
Schedule Baseline
Project Schedule Network Diagram
24. A limiting factor that affects the execution of a project - program - portfolio - or process.
Change Control Board
Constraint
Opportunity
Estimate to Complete
25. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot finish until a predecessor activity has started.
Earned Value
Schedule Performance Index
Defect Repair
Start-to-Finish
26. The document that describes how the project will be executed - monitored - and controlled.
Project Management Plan
Early Start Date
Product Life Cycle
Risk Breakdown Structure
27. A formally chartered group responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying - or rejecting changes to the project and for recording and communicating such decisions.
Summary Activity
Early Start Date
Change Control Board
Requirements Traceability Matrix
28. A factor in the planning process that is considered to be true - real - or certain - without proof or demonstration.
Program Management Office
Free Float
Secondary Risk
Assumption
29. A schedule method that allows the project team to place buffers on any project schedule path to account for limited resources and project uncertainties.
Estimate at Completion
Organizational Process Assets
Constraint
Critical Chain Method
30. An enterprise whose personnel are the most directly involved in doing the work of the project or program.
Secondary Risk
Fast Tracking
Crashing
Performing Organization
31. A component of the human resource plan that describes when and how team members will be acquired and how long they will be needed.
Staffing Management Plan
WBS Dictionary
Crashing
Forward Pass
32. An iterative planning technique in which the work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail - while the work in the future is planned at a higher level.
Risk
Critical Path Activity
Stakeholder
Rolling Wave Planning
33. A technique used to shorten the schedule duration without reducing the project scope.
Requirement
Control Account
Gantt Chart
Schedule Compression
34. A hierarchical representation of resources by category and type.
Percent Complete
Risk Breakdown Structure
Stakeholder
Resource Breakdown Structure
35. The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
Project Schedule
Analogous Estimating
Estimate to Complete
Actual Cost
36. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
Defect Repair
Three-Point Estimate
Portfolio
Budget at Completion
37. A group of potential causes of risk.
Estimate at Completion
Trigger Condition
Milestone
Risk Category
38. 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.
Lessons Learned
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Schedule Variance
Human Resource Plan
39. A response to a threat that has occurred - for which a prior response had not been planned or was not effective.
Late Start Date
Program
What-If Sce
Pessimistic Duration
40. Projects - programs - subportfolios - and operations managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives.
Secondary Risk
Schedule Management Plan
Cost Management Plan
Portfolio
41. A hierarchical representation of risks that is organized according to risk categories.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Organizational Process Assets
Logical Relationship
42. A component of the project or program management plan that describes how a team will acquire goods and services from outside of the performing organization.
Deliverable
Procurement Management Plan
Scope Baseline
Activity
43. 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.
Program
Risk Category
Free Float
Project Manager
44. A logical relationship in which a successor activity cannot start until a predecessor activity has started.
Fast Tracking
Project Schedule Network Diagram
Backward Pass
Start-to-Start
45. A measure of the cost efficiency of budgeted resources expressed as the ratio of earned value to actual cost.
Cost Performance Index
Most Likely Duration
Discrete Effort
Product Life Cycle
46. A management control point where scope - budget - actual cost - and schedule are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Resource Breakdown Structure
Finish-to-Start
Control Account
Crashing
47. A technique for determining the cause and degree of difference between the baseline and actual performance.
Critical Path Method
Variance Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
Critical Path Activity
48. A technique used for dividing and sub-dividing the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable parts.
Decomposition
Data Date
S-Curve Analysis
Early Finish Date
49. A grid that shows the project resources assigned to each work package.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Staffing Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
Code of Accounts
50. The amount of time whereby a successor activity is required to be delayed with respect to a predecessor activity.
Secondary Risk
Lead
Lag
Gantt Chart