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Down: 1) ___ is a process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables. It is an inspection-driven process the stakeholders will complete to inspect the project scope deliverables.2) ___ is the authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or WBS (work breakdown structure) component.3) An earned value analysis technique that determines the expected remaining costs to complete the schedule activity, WBS component, or control account (or project). This is most typically calculated in a bottom-up manner.4) ___s are generally developed for risks with high impact or for risks with identified strategies that might not be effective at dealing with risks. ___s are not contingency plans.5) An earned value analysis technique that is used to calculate cost performance efficiencies: ___ = EV / AC.7) ___ is used in critical path methodology for building a project schedule network diagram that uses boxes or rectangles, referred to as nodes, to represent activities, and join each other with arrows that show the logical relationship that exists between them.8) ___ (also called contractor conferences, vendor conferences, and pre-bid conferences) are meetings with the prospective sellers prior to preparation of a bid or proposal. The meeting can discuss the request for quote, request for proposal, or the invitation for bid – all dependent on what the customer has requested.11) ___ establish clear expectations regarding acceptable behavior by project team members.12) This form of mathematical analysis is used to shorten the project schedule duration without changing the project scope. ___ involves shortening the project schedule to accomplish all the activities sooner than estimated. Crashing and fast tracking are two examples of ___ techniques.13) The ___ depends on the rates of time and materials used for producing the procured product. This is a hybrid that includes some aspects from both the fixed-price category and the cost-reimbursable category.14) A ___ is performed to verify the effectiveness of a quality management system. It is a hands-on management tool for achieving continual improvement in an organization.16) This is usually an executive in the organization. The ___ has the authority to assign resources and enforce decisions regarding the project.17) ___ is a closing process that details all the activities and interactions of the project stakeholders, project team members, and other roles and responsibilities to close the project.19) ___ technique places many or all of the most active project team members in the same physical location to enhance their ability to perform as a team. This results in an enhanced communication between the team members.20) Dependencies between two project activities whereby one activity must do something (finish or start) before another activity can do something (start or finish). ___ can also exist between an activity and a milestone. These are also known as precedence relationships. The four types of ___ are finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-start, and start-to-finish.21) The ___ is a component of the project management plan. It describes how the project team will implement the organization's quality policy.23) ___ is the application of planned, systematic quality activities to ensure that the project will employ all processes needed to meet requirements. It is a prevention-driven activity to reduce errors in the project and to help the project meet its requirements.25) ___ is the design of all information-gathering exercises where variation is present. ___ is a statistical method that plays a role in the optimization of products or processes.26) ___ is a document used to solicit proposals from the prospective sellers which require a significant amount of negotiation.30) The lowest level of a WBS. It can be easily estimated and assigned to one person or team.31) The act of informing potential vendors that an RFP, RFQ, or other procurement document is available. This is a tool and technique of the Conduct Procurements process.33) ___ is a process group or stage that occurs at the beginning of the project. It determines the nature and scope of the development. If this stage is not performed well, it is unlikely that the project will be successful in meeting the business needs.35) An ___ is a graphical way to display risk categories and their subcategories. The ___ is an element of the risk management plan.37) A/an ___ is defined as a set of related tasks performed for managing a certain aspect of a project, such as cost.38) An earned value analysis technique that calculates the difference between the BAC (budget at completion) and the EAC (estimate at completion): ___ = BAC - EAC.40) CPFF (cost plus fixed fee) contracts charge back all allowable project costs to the seller and include a fixed fee on completion of the contract.47) A performance index that calculates schedule performance efficiencies: ___ = EV / PV.49) ___ is the total cost actually incurred and recorded in accomplishing work performed during a given time period for a schedule activity. It is the cost of the work to date, including direct and indirect costs. ___ is money that has actually been expended to date.50) In contrast to an RFP, a ___ is a document used to solicit quotes or bids which require little negotiation from the prospective sellers for commodity items.51) The sum of all the budgets established for all the work of the project, the work package, the control account, or the schedule activity. It's the total PV (planned value) for the work component or project. ___ is used in earned value analysis calculations. Across: 2) ___ is one of the ten project management knowledge areas. It is a group of processes that include all the activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.6) This type of contract sets a specific, firm price for the goods or services rendered (like the fixed-price contract) and include an extra incentive for exceeding agreed-on performance criteria.9) In a ___, team members are loyal to their department and report only to their functional manager. The project manager is part-time on the project and reports to a functional manager; the team members are part-time as well. The project manager has only limited control over team members because they report to the functional manager.10) ___ are quantifiable estimates of the number of work periods needed to complete the schedule activities listed.15) In management terms, a ___ is a group of related projects. These projects are grouped to obtain benefits and control that is not available from managing them individually. ___s are a means of achieving organizational goals and objectives.18) ___ display schedule activities. They might also show activity sequences, activity start and end dates, resource assignments, activity dependencies, and the critical path.22) A schedule compression technique where two activities or phases or project phases that were previously scheduled to start sequentially start at the same time. The activities can be overlapped for the entire duration of the activity or for certain portions of the duration. ___ reduces schedule duration if applied to the critical path.24) This process is concerned with monitoring work results to see whether they fulfill the quality standards set out in the quality management plan. The ___ process determines whether the end product conforms to the requirements and product description defined during the Planning processes.27) The person responsible for applying the skills, knowledge, and project management tools and techniques to the project activities in order to successfully complete the project objectives.28) A deliverable-oriented hierarchy that defines and organizes the work of the project and only the work of the project.29) The first process in the Planning process group. The purpose of this process is to define, coordinate, and integrate all subsidiary project plans.32) The most commonly used performance measurement method. It looks at schedule, cost, and scope project measurements and compares their progress as of the measurement date against what was expected. The three measurements needed to perform earned value analysis are PV (planned value), AC (actual cost), and ___.34) This contract sets a firm price for the goods or services rendered and include an adjustment that's tied to a reliable financial index. ___ contracts are used when the contract period extends several years.36) ___ is the term that refers to the gaining of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a consequence of the teaching of vocational/practical skills and knowledge that interrelate to specific useful competencies.39) ___ is typically hierarchical arrangement of lines of authority, communications, rights and duties of an organization. It identifies how the roles, power and responsibilities are assigned, controlled, and coordinated, and how information flows between the different levels of management.41) A ___ is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do an act which is enforceable in the court of law. It is a legal agreement that mutually binds the seller (to provide the specified product, service, or result) and the buyer (to pay for it). It is an agreement that creates and defines obligations between two or more parties.42) The discount rate when the present value of the cash inflows equals the original investment. Projects with higher ___ values are generally considered better than projects with lower ___ values. ___ assumes that cash inflows are reinvested at the ___ value.43) In a ___, the seller will recoup all the costs expended during the project but the award fee portion is subject to the sole discretion of the buyer. The ___ is the riskiest of the cost plus contracts for the seller.44) ___ are the links, which tie tasks to the timing of other tasks in the project. ___ take place because all tasks in a project rarely happen at a time. Some tasks must start or finish before the other can begin. The previous or predecessor task can be linked to its succeeding or successor task, and thereby set up the task dependency between the two.45) These are the ___ that are ___ to the project.46) ___ explains the analysis of the question "What if the situation represented by scenario 'X' happens?". This what-if scenario analysis is shortly named as WISA. Businesses use what-if scenarios to determine the effect different costs or investments have on profit and other financial indicators.48) ___ is concerned with identifying all the stakeholders associated with the project, both internal and external to the organization.52) This process assesses the number of work periods needed to complete the project activities. Work periods are usually expressed in hours or days. Large projects might express duration in weeks or months.
 

 

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