Final Exam Flashcards

1
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A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.

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Project

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2
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Involves working with stakeholders to create the document that formally authorizes a project.

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Developing the Project Charter

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Involves coordinating all planning efforts to create a consistent, coherent document.

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Developing the Project Management Plan

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4
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Involves carrying out the project management plan by performing the activities included in it.

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Directing and Managing Project Work

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Involves overseeing activities to meet the performance objectives of the project.

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Monitoring and Controlling Project Work

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Involves identifying, evaluating, and managing changes throughout the project life cycle.

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Performing Integrated Change Control

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Involves finalizing all actvities to formally close the project or phase

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Closing the Project or Phase

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Deciding how to approach and plan the risk management activities for the project.

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Planning Risk Management

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Determining which risks are likely to affect a project and documenting the characteristics of each.

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Identifying Risks

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Prioritizing risks based on their probability and impact of occurrence.

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Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis

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Numerically estimating the effects of risks on project objectives.

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Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis

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12
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Taking steps to enhance opportunities and reduce threats to meeting project objectives.

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Planning Risk Responses

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13
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Monitoring identified and residual risks, identifying new risks, carrying out risk response plans, and evaluating the effectiveness of risk strategies throughout the life of the project.

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Controlling Risk

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Ensures that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.

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Project Quality Management

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Identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and how to satisfy them, a metric standard of measure.

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Planning Quality Management

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16
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Periodically evaluating overall project performance to ensure the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards.

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Performing Quality Assurance

17
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Monitoring specific project results to ensure that they comply with the relevant quality standards.

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Performing Quality Control

18
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Determining the information and communications needs of the stakeholders.

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Planning Communications Management

19
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Creating, distributing, storing, retrieving, and disposing of project communications based on the communications management plan.

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Managing Communications

20
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Monitoring and controlling project communications to ensure that stakeholder communication needs are met.

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Controlling Communications

21
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Determining what to procure and when and how to do it.

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Planning Procurement Management

22
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Obtaining seller responses, selecting sellers, and awarding contracts.

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Conducting Procurements

23
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Managing relationships with sellers, monitoring contract performance, and making changes as needed.

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Controlling Procurements

24
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Completing and settling each contract or agreement, including resolving of any open items.

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Closing Procurements

25
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The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.

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Project Management

26
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Balancing scope, time, and cost goal.

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Triple Constraint

27
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The creation of relationships with outside vendors and suppliers for goods and services needed to complete a project.

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Project Procurement Management

28
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The process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk factors throughout the life of a project and in the best interests of its objectives.

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Project Risk Management

29
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The systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization, and between organizations

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Project Communications Management

30
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A collection of processes required to ensure that the various elements of the projects are properly coordinated.

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Project Integration Management

31
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Used to solicit quotes or bids from prospective suppliers.

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RFQ (Requests for Quotes)

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Used to solicit proposals from prospective sellers.

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RFP (Requests for Proposals)

33
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A formal, documented process that describes when and how official project documents and work may be changed. Describes who is authorized to make changes and how to make them

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Integrated Change Control

34
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Two or more people interact to exchange information via meetings, phone calls, or video conferencing. Most effective way to ensure common understanding.

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Interactive communication

35
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Information is sent or pushed to recipients without their request via reports, e-mails, faxes, voice mails, and other means. Ensures that the information is distributed, but does not ensure that it was received or understood.

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Push communication

36
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Information is sent to recipients at their request via Web sites, bulletin boards, e-learning, knowledge repositories like blogs, and other means.

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Pull communication

37
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A document that contains the results of various risk management processes and that is often displayed in a table or spreadsheet format.
A tool for documenting potential risk events and related information

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Risk Register

38
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Many IT professionals think of testing as a stage that comes near the end of IT product development.
Testing should be done during almost every phase of the IT product development life cycle.

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Quality Testing