While setting up a program's infrastructure and plan, a program management team develops documents and processes that provide commonality and consistency throughout the program's components. What…

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Options

• ABreakdowns such as the program work breakdown structure (PWBS), component project
• BIndustry standards that provide guidance to the component project managers on how to adapt
• CDocuments that enable level-adequate aggregation and consolidation of component/program
• DFiles, filing structures, and templates for knowledge repositories that contain centrally stored

• A
  89% (40)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  4% (2)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

When establishing program infrastructure, the team creates common processes and templates (already done in the scenario). What should also be prepared are structural breakdowns such as the Program Work Breakdown Structure (PWBS) and component project WBS templates. The PWBS provides the hierarchical decomposition of the program's total scope, enabling integration, planning, and aggregation of component work. Options B and C describe standards and reporting documents, which are part of the 'commonality and consistency' already mentioned in the question. Option D (file structures and templates) is also part of common infrastructure already covered. The PWBS and component breakdowns are the critical missing structural element.

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