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What is the definition of collaborative negotiation?

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Correct Answer: Collaborative negotiation entails all negotiating parties obtaining at least some of what they want from negotiations.

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What is collaborative negotiation?

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Correct Answer: All negotiating parties obtaining at least some of what they want from negotiations.

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What is a code of accounts?

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Correct Answer: A system used to assign unique identifiers to all work breakdown structure components.

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What does the closing phase of the project management life cycle include?

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Correct Answer: All aspects of the project are officially completed and closed.

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Which of the following is not included in the closing phase of the project management life cycle?

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Correct Answer: Notifying suppliers of completion

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What is a Change management plan?

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Correct Answer: A Change management plan details the change control process.

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What is a change freeze?

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Correct Answer: The point at which scope changes to a project are no longer permissible.

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What is a change control system?

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Correct Answer: The process by which changes to the project are evaluated before approval, implemented, and documented.

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What is the primary purpose of a change control board?

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Correct Answer: To evaluate proposed changes and decide when and whether to make them.

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What does CCS do?

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Correct Answer: Change control board

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What does change control ensure?

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Correct Answer: That changes are introduced in a controlled and effective manner

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Change control is the process of identifying, evaluating, approving, and implementing changes to what?

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Correct Answer: A project

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What is the main responsibility of a project champion?

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Correct Answer: To make project success a personal responsibility

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What is the project champion responsible for?

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Correct Answer: Pushing the project team to work hard and supporting the project manager

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Who offers the Certified Associate in Project Management Certification?

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Correct Answer: Project Management Institute

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What is the purpose of a case study?

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Correct Answer: To investigate important, singular, or locally representative cases that contribute to the advancement of knowledge

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Case studies are used to _____.

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Correct Answer: Investigate important, singular, or locally representative cases

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What does CAPEX represent?

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Correct Answer: Money a company spends to acquire new fixed physical assets or upgrade old ones.

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What does CAPEX stand for?

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Correct Answer: Capital Expenditure

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What is the Capability maturity model used for?

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Correct Answer: To assess the maturity of business process capabilities

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What industry is the Capability Maturity Model now used in?

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Correct Answer: Software Development

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What is the smallest unit of time by which project activity durations are measured?

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Correct Answer: Calendar unit

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What does business value represent?

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Correct Answer: The sum of positive effects a project has on the business

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What is the business value of a project?

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Correct Answer: The sum of positive effects — tangible and intangible — it has on the business.

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What are business requirements?

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Correct Answer: The conditions a product must satisfy to effectively serve its purpose within a business.

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What is business process modeling?

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Correct Answer: The representation, analysis, and evaluation of business processes in an effort to improve them.

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What are the three categories of business processes?

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Correct Answer: Management processes, operational processes, and supporting processes.

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What creates a specific result for customers in a business process?

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Correct Answer: System of activities

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What is a business case?

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Correct Answer: A documentation of the potential outcomes of a new project, including benefits, cost, and effects.

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What does business analysis focus on?

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Correct Answer: Creating and implementing solutions to business needs

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What is business analysis?

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Correct Answer: The practice of identifying and solving business problems.

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What is the meaning of "Burst point"?

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Correct Answer: A point in a network diagram at which multiple successor activities originate from a common predecessor activity.

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What is the BCWS?

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Correct Answer: The portion of the budget allocated to work scheduled to be performed in a period of time.

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What is the budgeted cost of work performed?

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Correct Answer: The portion of the budget allocated to scheduled work actually performed in a period of time.

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What does the term "budget" refer to?

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Correct Answer: The sum of money allocated for a project.

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What does Brief refer to in a project?

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Correct Answer: It refers to the document produced during a project’s concept phase.

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Which of the following estimation technique is considered to be the most accurate?

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Correct Answer: Bottom-up estimating

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What is the other name for Bottom-up estimating?

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Correct Answer: Analytical estimating

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What does BOSCARD stand for?

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Correct Answer: Background, Objectives, Scope, Constraints, Assumptions, Risks, and Deliverables

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What is a blueprint?

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Correct Answer: A document that explains what a program means to accomplish and describes a program’s contribution to organizational objectives.

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What is the purpose of a blueprint?

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Correct Answer: To explain what a program means to accomplish and describe a program’s contribution to organizational objectives.

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What is the term for ensuring that project results give customers and stakeholders the benefits they expect?

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Correct Answer: Benefits realization

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What is the main focus of benefits realization?

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Correct Answer: Ensuring that project results give customers and stakeholders the benefits they expect.

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What does the term "baseline" represent?

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Correct Answer: The costs and schedules approved at the start of the project

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When is a bar chart used?

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Correct Answer: To diagram project activities' start and end dates

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What is a balanced scorecard?

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Correct Answer: A tool used to assess whether an organization’s activities are correlated with its general vision and objectives.

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What is portfolio balancing?

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Correct Answer: Balancing a portfolio's components based on risk, costs, and use of resources.

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What is the backward pass?

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Correct Answer: This calculates late-start and finish dates for project activities by working backwards from the project end date.

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What is authorized work?

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Correct Answer: Work that management or others in authority approve.

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What is authorization?

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Correct Answer: The power to make decisions that the management grants.

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What is an assumption?

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Correct Answer: A factor deemed to be true during the project planning process, though proof of their validity is not available.

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What is the process of assigning people to project work for changing numbers of hours per day as the project moves through different stages?

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Correct Answer: Assignment contouring

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Which of the following is NOT an artifact?

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Correct Answer: Project management

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What does artifact refer to?

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Correct Answer: Items that support software development

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What is the arrow diagramming method used for?

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Correct Answer: To construct activity-on-arrow (AOA) diagrams.

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What type of analysis is used to examine the various methods by which a project 's goals may be achieved?

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Correct Answer: Approach analysis

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What type of activity is apportioned effort?

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Correct Answer: One of three types of activities used to measure work performance as part of earned value management.

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What is the other name for apportioned effort?

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Correct Answer: Activities such as quality assurance

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What is an application area?

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Correct Answer: The specific project category of which the project is a part.

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Which of the following is true about analytical estimating?

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Correct Answer: It is the most accurate estimation technique.

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What is the most accurate estimation technique?

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Correct Answer: Analytical Estimating

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Which of the following is NOT a reason why Analogous Estimating is the most inaccurate estimation technique?

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Correct Answer: It uses historical project data to prepare time and cost estimates.

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What does alternative analysis involve?

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Correct Answer: The evaluation of possible courses of action in order to find the most suitable course of action.

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What is allocation?

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Correct Answer: The assigning of resources for scheduled activities in the most efficient way possible.

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What is the Agile Manifesto?

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Correct Answer: A set of principles that emphasizes meeting changing requirements through collaborative development and making ongoing improvements through iteration.

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What is the main focus of Agile software development?

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Correct Answer: Being reactive to changes in external environments

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What does agile project management focus on?

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Correct Answer: Teamwork, collaboration, and stakeholder involvement

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What is Agile project management?

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Correct Answer: A project management approach that draws from concepts of agile software development.

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What is the aim of agile development?

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Correct Answer: To meet ever-changing customer requirements

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What is the main characteristic of agile development?

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Correct Answer: It is adaptive

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What is the time frame that aggregate planning uses demand forecasts to manage scheduling and planning for project activities?

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Correct Answer: Between three and 18 months in advance.

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What does administrative closure refer to?

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Correct Answer: The set of formal requirements fulfilled to end a project

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APF rejects which type of project management?

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Correct Answer: Traditional, linear project management

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What does Actual Progress measure?

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Correct Answer: The amount of work completed on a project.

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What is actual expenditure?

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Correct Answer: The sum of costs paid from a budget.

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Actual effort is expressed in what units?

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Correct Answer: Person-hours

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Actual effort is best defined as

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Correct Answer: The amount of labor performed to complete an activity.

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What is the meaning of "actual duration"?

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Correct Answer: The length of time taken to complete an activity.

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Which of the following does ACWP represent?

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Correct Answer: The total cost incurred for work done in a given period of time.

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Which of the following is not a valid Management Accounting term?

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Correct Answer: ACWP

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What do nodes in an AON network diagram represent?

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Correct Answer: Activities

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Which of the following is NOT a relationship type illustrated by AON diagrams?

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Correct Answer: Finish-to-middle

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What type of relationship can be indicated by an AOA diagram?

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Correct Answer: Finish-to-start

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What is represented by arrows in AOA diagrams?

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Correct Answer: Activities

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What is an activity list?

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Correct Answer: A document that lists all the activities necessary to complete a project

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What is an activity label?

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Correct Answer: A short descriptor for an activity.

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What is an activity code?

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Correct Answer: An alphanumeric value by which activities can be grouped and filtered.

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What is the smallest unit of work necessary to complete a project work package?

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Correct Answer: Activity

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What is the purpose of tracking an action item's status?

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Correct Answer: To track the progress of the action item from creation to closure

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What is the purpose of an action item status?

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Correct Answer: To track an action item's progress from creation to closure

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What is an action item?

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Correct Answer: An activity or task that must be completed.

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What does the acquisition process obtain?

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Correct Answer: Personnel and resources necessary for project work

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What does "end user" refer to in the context of the definition of "acceptance test"?

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Correct Answer: A team of people who use the product to identify potential problems

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What are acceptance criteria?

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Correct Answer: The specific requirements expected of project deliverables.

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What is the definition of "accept"?

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Correct Answer: A decision to take no action against a threat.

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What is statistical signal processing?

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Correct Answer: An approach which treats signals as stochastic processes, utilizing their statistical properties to perform signal processing tasks

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What is nonlinear signal processing?

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Correct Answer: The analysis and processing of signals produced from nonlinear systems

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What is digital signal processing?

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Correct Answer: The processing of digitized discrete-time sampled signals.

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Which of the following is true about discrete-time signals?

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Correct Answer: They are defined only at discrete points in time

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What is continuous-time signal processing?

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Correct Answer: For signals that vary with the change of continuous domain

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