Scope, Schedule, and Cost Planning - recognize the schedule compression techniques of crashing and fast tracking, and the schedule optimization techniques of leveling and smoothing
Resource and Risk Planning - identify the types of organizational change
Communication, Changes, and Documentation - list the steps of the change control process
- recognize the types of common project changes
Controlling Project Work and Closing - identify project expenditures and compare actual spending against the plan
- use earned value management formulas to determine cost and schedule performance
- use earned value management formulas to forecast the final project costs and variance from the budget
- apply scheduling tools and techniques to determine project performance
- distinguish between quality control tools
- identify sources of lessons learned
- list the steps required to close a project or phase
Planning and Controlling the Schedule - recognize if resource leveling is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize if resource smoothing is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize if crashing is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
- recognize if fast tracking is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
Controlling Project Work, and Closing - calculate the planned value and earned value, given the budget, % of time passed, and % of work completed
- calculate the schedule variance and schedule performance index, given the earned value and planned value
- calculate the cost variance and cost performance index, given the earned value and actual costs
- determine project performance, given a set of raw data points
- utilize work performance data to determine project performance
- determine the estimate at completion, using the formulas for scenarios 1 and 2
- recognize how the choice of EAC formula depends on the project situation
- use a control chart to determine when a process is out of control
Quality and Procurement Planning - list the characteristics of quality control
- recognize the types of change requests that arise from quality processes
Project Documents, Terminology and Acronyms - distinguish between work performance data, information, and reports
- identify change requests and the change log
- distinguish between earned value management terminology and acronyms
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