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Cost plus award fee Contact

Is the type of cost reimbursement contract that will reimburse the seller for their permitted costs associated with performing the contact work, plus pay a fee based on the satisfaction of the buyer for achieving specified performance objectives that are stipulated in the contract.

Facilitation

Is used when cross functional requirements must be identified for the project scope.

Negotiation

Is used when project managers must obtain resources from functional managers.

Monitoring and controlling process group

Is where project performance measurements are taken and analyzed in order to determine whether the project is staying on track with the project plan.

Inputs for the Identify Stakeholders process:

Project charter, business documents, project management plan, project documents, agreements, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets.

Forming stage

Team members tend to act very formally with each other and the general attitude of the group tends to be all business.

agreements

are legally binding agreements that obligate the seller to provide the contracted product or service for the stipulated price, and obligate the buyer to compensate the seller once the terms of the contract have been fulfilled.

Benefit measurement method

is a project selection technique that will select the project using various form of analysis and comparative approaches.

Project Sponsor

is the primary advocate for the project. The person is typically an executive with the authority to assign resources to a project as well as have the final authority and decision maker for project issues

Closing Process Group

is the process group where all project activities are finalized and brought to a formal close. Projects or phases are

Stakeholder Analysis

is the process of gathering information about each stakeholder in order to determine their influence on the project as well as their expectations related to the project.

Identify Stakeholders

is the process of identifying all individuals and organizations that are impacted by the project.

Procurement Statement of Work

provides the vendors, suppliers and contractors with clearly stated goals, requirements and outcomes so they can provide a clear response to bid requests.

Organizational Process Assets (OPA)

refer to the assets of the organization that are typically obtained as a result of project experience.

Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF)

refer to the environment outside of the project that may have a significant influence over the success of the project.

Business Case

should provide a logical series of facts for initiating a project.

Planning Process Group

starts off by identifying the goals and objectives for the project.

Balanced Matrix Organization

the power is balanced between functional managers and project managers.

Encode

the step in the basic communications model of making the communication message understandable to the recipient

What if scenario analysis and simulation

Are the two modeling techniques that can be used to develop schedule.

Crashing and fast tracking

Are the two schedule compression techniques that can be used to shorten the project schedule.

Resource Leveling and resource smoothing

Are two Resource optimization techniques that can be used to adjust the schedule based on the availability of resources.

Affinity diagrams

Are used to organize potential defect causes or defect issues into groups.

Quality metrics

Defines what will be measured and how it will be measured in order to implement the control quality process.

Perform integrated change control

Gathers and reviews any change requests that have been received by either the project team or project stakeholders and approving changes.

Activity duration estimates

Is a report that lit the duration estimates for each activity or task in a work package.

Crashing

Is a schedule compression technique that uses additional resources to shorten activity durations.

Requirements traceability Matrix

Is a table that is created that lists each of the project requirements and traces them from their origin throughout the life of the project.

Make-or-buy analysis

Is a technique for plan procurement management process that will be used to determine if a product or service can be supplied by the project management team or if it is best to heave the product or service provided by an outside supplier or vendor.

Collaborate/problem solve

Is a technique for resolving conflicts that involves examining and discussing multiple viewpoints with project team members and typically leads to true consensus where all team members will be committed to the solution for resolving the conflict.

Develop team

Is the executing process of improving the skills and competencies of project team members.

Plan risk responses

Is the process of deciding what action to take in order to reduce threats and maximize the opportunities that are discovered during the risk analysis process.

Decode

Is the steps in the basic communications model of translating the message into usable information for the recipient,

Schedule Management plan output

Schedule Management Plan

Consciously incompetent

Teresa is the project manager for her department. Teresa has been working with her manager to examine her skills and her career. Teresa's manager believes that Teresa should take more training in a project management information system would make her a better project manager in her organization. Teresa agrees, though she feels that she doesn't know much about the project management information system her department uses. In the five steps of competence where is Teresa with this realization?

Perform integrate change control process

The control scope process requires that all requested changes and any required corrective actions must pass through which control process?

Statistical sampling inspects

a small sample of the work being performed to determine if it conforms to the defined standards for the project.

Bidder conference

are group meetings where all interested vendors, sellers, or bidders attend, and the services that are being requested are explained.

Sequential relationships

defines a phase relationship where one phase must finish before next project phase can begin.

Overlapping Relationship

defines a phase relationship where one phase starts before the prior phase completes.

Iterative Relationship

defines a phase relationship where work for future phases are planned as the work for the current phase is performed.

Quality metrics

defines what will be measured and how it will be measured in order to implement the control quality process.

Portfolios

are collections of programs and projects that support a specific strategic business goal or objective.

Project Scope Management

"Define Scope" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Schedule Management

"Define activities" is part of which knowledge area?

Father of Quality

Dr. W Edwards Deming

Analytical Techniques

can help a buyer identify the ability and readiness of a bidder to provide the desired product or service.

Project Cost Management

"Control Cost" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Quality Management

"Control Quality" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Resource Management

"Acquire Resources" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Schedule Management

"Control Schedule" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Integration Management

"Close Project or Phase" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Scope Management

"Create WBS" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Cost Management

"Determine Budget is part of which knowledge area?

Project Integration Management - Knowledge Area

"Develop Project Charter" is part of which Knowledge Area?

Project Integration Management - Knowledge Area

"Develop Project Management Plan" is part of which Knowledge Area?

Project Resource Management

"Estimate activity Resources" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Schedule Management

"Estimate activity durations" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Cost Management

"Estimate costs" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Identify risk" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Communications Management

"Monitor Communications" is part of knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Monitor Risks" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Stakeholder Management

"Monitor Stakeholder Engagement" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Integration Management

"Monitor and Control Project Work" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Schedule Management

"Project Schedule Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Stakeholder Management

"Project Stakeholder Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Scope Management

"Validate Scope" is a part of which knowledge area?

Formula for three-point estimating

((4 times most likely estimate) + optimistic estimate + pessimistic estimate) divided by 6

formula for calculation the total communication channels

(N * (N-1)) / 2

Preventive costs and appraisal costs

Are the two costs associated with conformance work.

Develop Project Charter

<Process>. The process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase to begin.

mathematical model

A project selection technique will select the project after calculating the value of the project

Resource smoothing

Adjusts the activities of a schedule so the resources do not exceed predefined limits.

Perform quantitative risk analysis

Analyzes project risks using a numerical approach

What if scenario analysis techique

Analyzes the schedule based on different scenarios in order to predict their effect on the project objectives.

EEF that influence the estimate activity resources process

Are Resource location, Resource availability, Team resource skill levels, Organization culture, Published estimating data, and Marketplace conditions

Approved change requests

Are authorized changes to the project plan, which either expand or reduce the scope of the project.

RFI, RFP, and RFQ

Are documents that are used to solicit bids from prospective sellers.

Recognition and rewards

Are formal ways to promote effective and desirable behavior within the project team and are given for going above and beyond the expected performance.

Communicating

Beth is a new project manager for her company and she's working with her project team to develop the project management plan. Beth knows that she must rely on several different skills to make her first project successful. Of the following management skills, which will a project manager use most?

Simulation

Calculates different project durations based on a different set of assumptions.

Schedule compression

Can shorten the project schedule without changing the project scope.

active listening

Communication includes an activity where the receiver restates what the sender has said to clarify the message and to give the sender to offer clarity if needed. What is this communication component called?

Alternatives analysis

Considers the various approaches or methods that can be used for performing the project work.

Project Procurement Management

Control Procurements" is part of which knowledge area?

Unanimity

Is a decision-making technique where all participants agree.

Majority

Is a decision-making technique where more than 50% agree.

Plurality

Is a decision-making technique where you may not have a 50% majority.

Project Scope Statement

Is a document that acts as an agreement between the project customer and the project team that defines precisely the work of the project or the output of the project.

Resource calendars

Is a document which list when resources are a viable for a project.

Work Breakdown Structure

Is a hierarchical division of the the work that needs to be done

Push Communication

Is a one-way passage of information from the sender to the recipients.

Organization's culture, infrastructure and administration

Enterprise Environmental factors that impact project scope

Positive risk or opportunities strategies

Exploit, Enhance, Share, and Accept

Stakeholder analysis

In NOT an organizational process asset that may influence the identify Stakeholders process.

Risk Avoidance

Includes modifying the project plan to eliminate or avoid the possibility of the risk occurring entirely.

Schedule network analysis

Involves calculating early and late start dates, as well as early and late finish dates for project activities.

Fast tracking

Is a a schedule compression technique that schedules activities that are normally completed sequentially instead are performed at the same time.

Interactive communication

Is a a two-way exchange of information between communication participants.

Elements of scope baseline

Project scope statement, WBS and WBS dictionary

Funding limit reconciliation

Manages project funds and verifies that the correct amounts are being spent during each phase of the project.

Resource Calendars

are documents that display the schedule and availability of contracted resources

Variance analysis

Which of the following is one of the data analysis techniques that may be used for the control scope process?

Work Performance Information, change requests, project management plan updates, and Project documents updates

Monitor stakeholder engagement outputs

Types of estimates for three-point estimating

Most likely, Optimistic, and Pessimistic estimates.

No conformance work

Not performing the work correclty

Work performance information, Change requests, Project management plan updates, and project document updates.

Outputs for control scope process

Project Integration Management

Perform Integrated Change Control" is part of which knowledge area?

Conformance work

Performing the work correctly

Monitor and control project work

Process will give the project manager and the project team current information on the health of the project.

Outputs of the develop project charter process

Project Charter and assumption log

Develop project management plan process

Project charter is an input

Pull communication

Puts the responsibility on the recipient for obtaining the information.

Expert Judgment come from

Project sponsor, project team members, project stakeholders, managers within the organization, industry consultants, and subject matter experts.

Storming stage

Project team members become confrontational with each other, as they vie for control, or preferred positions within the group.

Norming stage

Project team members have settled into their positions in the group and decisions are made together by all members of the project team.

Requirement doucmentation

Provides a description of how the project requirements fulfill the business need for the project.

Basis of estimates

Provides the details that support the cost estimates.

Expert judgment, Change control tools, Data analysis, Decision making, and Meetings

What are the tool and techniques for the perform intergraded change control process?

Expert judgement, project management information system, and meetngs

What are the tools and techniques for the direct and manage project work process?

Analogous estimating

Relies on similar past projected to help create activity duration estimates for the current project.

Inspection and decision making

What are two tools and techniques for the validate scope process?

Scope creep

What are unapproved changes to the project scope?

Planning step

Shewhart created the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Which step is responsible for establishing the objectives and processes in order to deliver results to meet the expected quality output objectives?

Doing Step

Shewhart created the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Which step is responsible for executing of the project plan?

Acting Step

Shewhart created the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Which step is responsible for implementing the fix for the deviation from the planned output?

Checking step

Shewhart created the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Which step is responsible for measuring the results and compare the results against the expected output objectives?

Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

Shewhart worked to improve manufacturing quality control. He also created the _________

Stat to Start

Specifies that the beginning of a successor activity depends on the beginning of the predecessor activity.

Finish to start

Specifies that the beginning of a successor activity depends on the completion of the processor activity.

Start to Finish

Specifies that the completion of a successor activity depends on the begin inning of the predecessor activity.

Finish to finish

Specifies that the completion of a successor activity depends on the completion of the predecessor activity.

Cost baseline and management reserves

The project budget is made up of what two elements?

Performing stage

The project team starts to address project problems and not personnel issues within the group.

Deliverables

The work of breaking the large project down into smaller units of work called ____________

Mathematical model and benefit measurement

Two categories of decision models

Business case and the benefits management plan

Which documents are typically used for inputs to develop the project charter?

Deliverables, Work performance data, Issue log, change requests, project management plan updates, project documents updates, Organizational process assets updates.

What are the outputs for direct and manage project work process?

Scope management plan and requirements plan

What are the outputs for the plan scope management process?

Accepted deliverables, Work performance information, Change requests, and project documents updates.

What are the outputs for validate scope process?

Manage quality

Verifies that quality standards defined in the project quality management plan are being achieved on the project.

Alternatives analysis, Cost-benefit analysis, Earned Value analysis, Root cause, analysis, Trend analysis, and Variance analysis

What are the data analysis techniques for the monitor and control project work process?

Project management plan, Project documents, Work performance information, Agreements, Enterprise environmental factors, and Organizational process assets.

What are the inputs for monitor and control project work process?

Resource Skills Assessment

Which of the following is NOT an output for the acquire resources process?

Activity cost estimates and contingency reserves

What is the cost baseline made up of?

Risk management Plan

What is the single output for plan risk management process?

Project management plan

What is the single output for the develop project management plan?

Risk register

What is the single output for the identify risk process?

Project Closed

When the project goals and objectives have been met and they are signed off by the project stakeholders.

Milestone list

Will define significant activities and the scheduled dates for completing these activities.

Risk Register

Will document how risk events will impact resource selection for project activities

Fair agreement for both the client and the vendor

You are the project manager for your organization and you're working with a new client to start a project at the client's site. You and the client are negotiating the price, schedule, and other concerns for a contract for the new project. In the negotiating, You and the client should be negotiating for what result?

Functional managers

fill the administrative duties of the organization and usually have the final authority to provide staff members to a project.

Organizational process assets

for develop project charter process includes all historical information from past projects that can be used when creating the project charter.

Scheduled baseline

Is the approved version of the project schedule by the project stakeholders that can only be changed through a formal change control procedure.

Cost baseline

Is the approved version of the time-phased project budget, which can only be changed through formal change control procedures.

Manage communications

Is the executing process of creating, collecting, distributing, storing, and retrieving project information as defined in the communication management plan.

Acquire resources

Is the executing process of obtaining the project team members so the activities of the project can be completed on schedule.

Manage Team

Is the executing process of tracking the performance of individual project team members and providing feedback on their performance.

Direct and manage project work

Is the executing process that involves putting the project management plan in to action.

Validate Scope

Is the formal acceptance of completed project outputs and deliverables.

Project Management Plan

Is the formal, approved document that is concerned with defining and documenting the activities that will be required for the project.

Work performance data

Is the information that is collected about the project work being performed.

Collect requirements

Is the planning process of defining and documenting stakeholders' needs to meet the project objectives.

Plan stakeholder engagement

Is the planning process of developing necessary strategies to manage stakeholders of the entire duration of the project.

Define activities

Is the planning process of documenting specific activities that must be performed in order to create the project deliverables.

Estimate Activity Resources

Is the planning process of estimating the proper amount of resources that are required to complete each project task.

Plan procurement management

Is the planning process of identifying what good and/or service will need to be purchased from outside of the organization.

Sequence activities

Is the planning process of placing the individual activities into a logical order, which will identify dependencies that exist among all activities.

Decomposition

Is the process for documenting major deliverables of the project breaking them down into smaller work packages.

Pre-assignment

Is the process of assigning members to the project before the project starts.

Verified deliverables

Is the process of checking the deliverables in order to verify that they have in fact been completed.

Rolling Wave Planning

Is the technique for the define activities process of planning current activities in greater detail than activities that will be performed in the future.

Dependency determination

Is the technique for the sequence activities process that defines the dependencies which impact the sequencing of project activities.

Precedence Diagramming method (PDM)

Is the technique for the sequence activities process that uses rectangles to represent project activities, which are connected with arrows representing dependencies between the project activities.

Communication methods

Is the technique of managing the communication process is to ensure that the information that must be communicated has been accurately distributed, received and understood.

Cost of quality

Is the technique that tracks the total cost to produce the product or service of the project in order to adhere to the defined project quality specifications.

Cost Plus fixed Fee Contract

Is the type of cost reimbursement contract that will reimburse the seller for their costs associated with performing the contract work, plus pay a pre-negotiated fixed fee.

Firm Fixed Price Contract

Is the type of fixed price contract that is where the price of the product or service to be purchased is fixed and does not change unless the scope changes.

Project Management Office (PMO)

an organizational unit of the company or organization that oversees the management of projects throughout the organization.

cash flow analysis model

analyzes expected cash flows for each project.

Programs

are defined as groups of related projects that are managed using the same techniques in a coordinated fashion.

Outputs for the Identify Stakeholders process:

are stakeholder register, change requests, project management plan updates and project documents updates

Change requests

are the output for the conduct procurements process that are required changes to the project management plan and any subsidiary planning documents as a result of implementing the conduct procurements process

Independent estimates

are used as an indicator of the equality of the procurement documents

Agreements

are used when working with or using an external contractor or business entity.

scoring model

assigns a weights for different criteria and then scores the criteria for each project.

Legal Requirement driver

is a business case driver for doing the project to responding to codes and laws.

Quality metrics

is a project document that defines what will be measured and how it will be measured in order to implement the control quality process.

matrix organizational structure

were created to minimize the difference between functional and projectized organizational structures.

functional organizational structure

work is arranged within main business functions such as production, operations, marketing, and human resources

Project Scope Management

"Collect requirements" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Procurement Management

"Conduct Procurement" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Scope Management

"Control Scope" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Resource Management

"Develop schedule" is a process in which knowledge area?

Project Resource Management

"Develop team" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Integration Management

"Direct and Manage Project Work" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Stakeholder Management - Knowledge Area

"Identify stakeholders is a process of which knowledge area?

Project Communications Management

"Manage Communications" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Quality Management

"Manage Quality" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Stakeholder Management

"Manage Stakeholder Engagement" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Resource Management

"Manage Team" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Perform quantitative risk analysis" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Procurement Management

"Plan Procurement Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Resource Management

"Plan Resource Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Plan Risk Responses" is part of which knowledge area?

Plan Communications Management

"Plan communications management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Cost Management

"Plan cost management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Quality Management

"Plan quality Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Risk Management

"Plan risk management" is a part of which knowledge area?

Project Scope Management

"Plan scope Management" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Schedule Management

"Sequence Activities" is part of which knowledge area?

Project Scope

Is defined as the work that must be performed to deliver a product, service or result with the specified features and functions.

Business case driver

is a business case driver for doing the project to respond to a new technology.

Customer Request Driver

is a business case driver for doing the project to respond to what the company's customers are requesting.

Market Demand Driver

is a business case driver for doing the project to respond to what the market is requesting

Stakeholder Register

A document that includes details related to the identified project stakeholders, their expectations regarding the project and level of influence in the organization.

Project schedule Network Diagrams

Are graphical displays of the project schedule activities and any dependencies, which are logical relationships between project activities.

Approved change requests

Are the change requests that have been approved by the change control group.

Cost Estimates

Are the costs of project resources which may impact the selection of project resources

External failure costs

Are the defects and incorrectly performed work found by the customer.

Internal failure costs

Are the defects and incorrectly performed work found by the project team.

Internal failure costs and external failure costs

Are the two cost associated with no conformance work.

inputs for project charter

Business documents, agreements, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational process assets.

Resource breakdown structure

Is a comprehensive list of project resources organized by resource type.

Resource requirements

Is a report that lists the different types and quantities of resources organized for each activity or talk in a work package.

Force/direct

Is a technique for resolving conflict that requires each party involved in the conflict to give up something to resolve the conflict.

Compromise/reconcile

Is a technique for resolving conflicts that requires each party involved in the conflict to give up something to resolve the conflict.

Withdraw/avoid

Is a technique for resolving conflicts that results in both parties involved the conflict retreating from the conflict or any potential conflict situation.

Smooth/accommodate

Is a technique for resolving conflicts that will place the focus of the conflict resolution on areas of agreement instead of areas of disagreement.

Focus group

Is a technique for the collect requirements process that involves interviewing a group of qualified project stakeholders together by a trained moderator.

Benchmarking

Is a technique of performing measurements in order to compare planned results to actual results.

Critical path Method

Is a technique that calculates the flexibility, sometimes called float, for each path in the network schedule.

Cost-benefit analysis

Is a technique that considers the trade-offs related to the cost of quality.

Risk catagories

Is a tool that defines project risks.

Probability and impact matrix

Is a tool that organizes project risk and defines the probability as very low, low, medium, high and very high. Risk are then evaluated against the criteria of cost, time, scope and quality to determine the impact of each risk in each area.

Transfer risk

Is a tragedy for transferring risk to a third party.

Fixed price contract

Is a type of procurement contract that is used when the total price is fixed for a specified product or service.

Three-point estimating

Is an activity duration estimating technique that tries to reduce uncertainty or risk by using three estimates for an activity duration.

Mitigate Rsk

Is an attempt to reduce the probability of a risk event and the impact of the risk to acceptable levels.

Bottom-up estimating

Is an estimating technique where activities are broken down and the resources for each work segment are estimated, and then all of the individual estimates are aggregated.

Activity List

Is an output of the define activities process that creates a complete list of all activities that must be scheduled for the project.

Fixed price incentive fee contract

Is the type of fixed price contract that sets a fixed price for.a specified product or service, and typically includes financial incentives for achieving specific performance outputs or delivery dates.

Fixed price with economic price adjustment contract

Is the type of fixed price contract that sets a fixed-price for a specified product or service, but it includes predefined adjustments as a result of changes in the economy, such as inflation, interest rates, and market conditions of the commodities over the long duration of time.

Time and material contact

Is the type of procurement contract that has aspects of both fixed-price and cont reimbursement associated with them and are typically used when a definitive statement of work cannot be defined.

Project schedule

Is to determine and document the start and finish dates for each of the project activities.

Root cause analysis

Is used to identify the causes of problems so preventative actions can be taken.

Definitions of risk probability and impact

Is used to identify the probability of a identified project risk actually occurring and the impact on the project.

WBS Process Output:

Scope baseline

Determine Budget

Takes all of the cost estimates for each of the activities for the project and summing them together and creating the project budget.

Acquistion

Which of the following is not a tools and techniques for the develop team process.

Develop Project Charter and Identify stakeholders

Which of the following processes are within the Initiating Process Group

Communication skills and a positive attitude

You are the project manager of the Systems Upgrade Project for your organization. As a project manager, you want to influence the organization and the project team for the better. What two key aspects are most helpful in influencing your organization as a project manager?

Discounted cash flows

a cash flow analysis technique takes into account the fact that money received in the future is worth less than money received today.

Net Present Value (NPV)

a cash flow analysis technique that allows calculating an accurate value for the project in today's dollars and is useful when the cash inflow varies each month.

payback period

a cash flow technique that identifies the length of time it takes for the organization to recover all the costs of producing the product, service or result of the project.

Cost-benefit analysis

a technique that considers the trade-offs related to the cost of quality.

Cost of quality

a technique that tracks the total cost to produce the product or service of the project in order to adhere to the defined project quality specifications.

successful project

accomplishes the defined project objectives and meets or exceeds the expectation of project stakeholders.

Social need driver

is a business case driver for doing the project because it is the right thing to do.

interpersonal and team skills

conflict management, facilitation, and meeting management

Source Selection Criteria

define the criteria define the criteria that will be used to evaluate the bidders responding t the procurement documents. p

Weak Matrix Organization

functional managers have all of the power and project managers are essentially project coordinators.

Initiating group

grants the approval to commit the organization's resources to working on the project or phase and its also authorizes the project manager to begin working on the project.

Steering committee

group in an organization is typically responsible for reviewing, selecting and prioritizing projects

Control charts

illustrate how a process is performing over time on a project.

Cause-and-effect diagrams

illustrate how various factors are linked and are useful to uncover the root cause of project problems.

Project management plan, project documents, Work performance data, EEF, OPA

inputs for the monitor communications process

Risk audits

involve analyzing risk responses to determine their effectiveness.

Monitor stakeholder engagement

involves monitoring the entire stakeholder management process and relationships.

Executing Process Group

involves putting the project management plan into action.

Stakeholder registers from past, similar projects

is NOT one of the tools and techniques for the identify stakeholders process.

cost-benefit analysis

is a project selection method compares the cost to produce a product, service or result to the benefits that the organization will receive as a result of executing the project.

Inspection during contract

is a technique of performing actual inspections of the seller's work during the execution of the contract.

Progressive Elaboration

is a term that is used to describe how the deliverable are continually refined and worked out in greater detail as the project progresses.

Expert Judgment

is a tool and technique for the develop project charter process, but it is not an example of data gathering technique.

Closing project or phase

is the only process in the closing process group.

Verified Deliverables

is used to verify that the deliverables of the project conform to the project scope or what was required to be produced by the project defined in the project scope.

Closing Process Group

is where all project activities are finalized and brought to a formal close.

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group

is where project performance measurements are taken and analyzed in order to determine whether the project is staying on track with the project plan.

Inspection

is where the actual project work is examined to determine if it conforms to the planned quality standards and involves taking measurements and comparing the results to quality specifications.

Resource Leveling

makes necessary adjustments to the schedule to account for over allocated resources, limited availability of critical resources, or when the same resource have been assigned to different tasks at the same time.

Project managers responsible

managing project processes and applying knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to complete project activities.

Projectized Organizational Structure

primarily used in organizations where project work is the primary business of the organization.

Strong Matrix Organization

the balance of power is with the project manager.

Project sponsor

the person that promotes the project and gathers support for the project.

Scatter diagrams

track two variables to identify relationships between the two variables.

Histograms

use a vertical bar chart to illustrate when a particular action occurred on a project.