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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start without delaying the project finish date - or violating a schedule constraint. Calculated using the critical path method technique and determining the difference be
Project Plan
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Total Float
Organization Chart
2. Considers the characteristics of those prospective staff who are available to join the project team.
Workaround plans
Activity List
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Staffing Pool Description
3. Involves procedures required to close a contract as specified in the prescribed procedures for close procurements. Includes product verification and administrative closure.
Close procurements
Statistical Sampling
Work Results
Tolerances vs. Control limits
4. Includes the processes that organize - manage - and lead the project team.
Assumptions Analysis
Project Scope
Quality Management Plan
Project Human Resource Management
5. A functional organization has a hierarchy in which every employee has one clear superior. Staff members are grouped by areas of specialization. Functional organizations may still have projects - but the perceived scope of the project is defined by th
Functional Organization
Define Activities
Fast Tracking
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
6. Incurred for the exclusive benefit of the project (e.g. - salaries of full-time project staff).
Direct costs
Project Integration Management
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Plan Quality
7. Activities that assist in developing/enhancing the ability of team members to work together effectively and contribute to the success of the project team. It improves the people skills - technical competencies - and overall team environment and proje
Functional Organization
Transference
Team Development
Control Charts
8. Predefined approaches to risk analysis and response in some organizations that have to be tailored to a particular project.
Simulation
Product Description
Risk management policies
Cost Management Plan
9. Schematic displays of the logical relationships (dependencies) among the project schedule activities; always drawn from left to right to reflect project work chronology
Identify Risks
Communications management plan
Project Schedule Network Diagrams
Templates
10. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.
Scope Statement
Acquire Project Team
Program
Product Description
11. Process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - ad making changes and corrections as needed.
Administer procurements
Procurement file
Quality Policy
Information Distribution Methods
12. A subsequent phase of a project is sometimes begun prior to approval of the previous phase deliverables when the risks involved are deemed acceptable. This practice of overlapping phases is often called fast tracking
Lessons Learned
Procurement audits
Fast Tracking
Change Control System
13. Structured review of the project plans and assumptions - prior project files - contracts - and other information.
Scope Management Plan
Triggers
Documentation Reviews
Fixed- price contracts
14. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
Project Quality Management
Quality Management Plan
Quality Policy
15. Includes the processes required to purchase or acquire products - services - or results needed from outside the project team.
Project Procurement Management
Resource Leveling
Cost Management Plan
Free Float
16. Expectations The process of communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur. Project manager applies appropriate interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder expectations - for example - by building t
Lead
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Group Creativity Techniques
Manage Stakeholder
17. Group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain control and benefits that are not available if managed individually.
Re-baselining
Benchmarking
Program
Human Resource Practices
18. Judgment provided based upon expertise in an application area - knowledge area - discipline - industry - etc. as appropriate for the activity being performed. Such expertise may be provided by any group or person with specialized education - knowledg
Proposals
Project Human Resource Management
Procurement file
Expert Judgment
19. 1. Performed by people; 2. Constrained by limited resources; 3. Planned - excuted - monitored - and controlled; 4. Ultimate goal is to achieve organizational objectives or stratregic plans
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Functional Organization
Recruitment Practices
Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM)
20. Used to generate - classify - and prioritize product requirements. Some methods used to reach group decisions are: unanimity - majority - plurality - and dictatorship.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Assumptions
Develop Human Resource Plan
Cost Management Plan
21. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Cost Performance Baseline
Control Account
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Project Quality Management
22. Diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives.
Decision Tree
Group Creativity Techniques
Product Analysis
Define Activities
23. Also called risk symptoms or warning signs - they are indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. They may be discovered in the risk identification process and watched in the risk monitoring and control process.
Estimate Activity Resources
Triggers
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Life Cycle Costing
24. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Cost Management Plan
Activity List
Define Scope
Source Selection Criteria
25. Process of changing the schedule baseline. It is done when schedule delays are very severe - and the project schedule has to be completely changed.
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Project Assumption Testing
Re-baselining
Information Distribution Methods
26. An uncertain event or condition that - if it occurs - has a positive or negative effect on the project objective.
Organizational Policies
Risk
Project Life Cycle
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
27. Application of knowledge - skills - tools - and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements.
Independent estimates
Documentation Reviews
Project Management
Status Review Meetings
28. Focused sessions that bring key cross-functional stakeholders together to define product requirements
Source Selection Criteria
Facilitated Workshops
Collocation
Work Results
29. The process of identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success.
Stakeholder Analysis
Simulation
Requirements Management Plan
Identify Stakeholders
30. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project includes only the essential work required to complete the project successfully. It includes collecting the requirements - defining the scope - verifying the scope and controlling the scope o
Project Scope
Quality Policy
Project Scope Management
Product Scope
31. Process of assessing and combining the impact and the likelihood of identified risks. Prioritizes risks according to their potential effect on project objectives for further analysis or action.
Product Description
Statistical Sampling
Identify Stakeholders
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
32. A schedule compression technique in which phases or activities normally performed in sequence are performed in parallel. Fast tracking often results in rework and increased risk. Fast tracking only works if activities can be overlapped to shorten the
Project Stakeholders
Life Cycle Costing
Estimate Costs
Fast Tracking
33. Process of monitoring the status of the project and product scope and managing changes to the scope baseline.
Quality Management Plan
Constraints
Risk Audits
Control Scope
34. Risks that remain after planned responses have been implemented - as well as those that have been deliberately accepted.
Data Precision Ranking
Residual Risks
Quantitatively based durations
Control Account
35. A calendar of working days and non- working days that determines those dates on which each specific resource is ideal or can be active; typically defines the resource specific holidays and resource availability periods; the calendars that specify whe
Resource Calendar
Control Charts
Simulation
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
36. Clarify the structure - requirements and other terms of the purchases so that mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contract.
Source Selection Criteria
Scope Change Control System
Procurement negotiations
Configuration Management System
37. The work that must be done to deliver a product with the specified features and functions
Stakeholder register
Trend Analysis
Plan Risk Responses
Project Scope
38. Process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. Sequencing can be performed by using project management software or by using manual or automated techniques.
Project Closeout
Technical performance measurement
Sequence Activities
Constraints
39. A subdivision (fragment) of a project schedule network diagram - used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition - such as changes in preferential schedule logic or project scope.
Lag
Sub Network / Fragment Network
Product Description
Decomposition
40. Technologies or methods to transfer information among project stakeholders.
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Communications Technology
Mathematical Analysis
Process Adjustments
41. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measure of scale such as size - weight - and complexity - from a previous - similar activity as the basis for estimating the same parameter o
Contract
Project Planning Methodology
Benchmarking
Sensitivity Analysis
42. A requirement imposed by a governmental body and its compliance is mandatory.
Lag
Root Cause Analysis
Lead
Regulation
43. Provide a structure that ensures a comprehensive process of systematically identifying risks to a consistent level of detail and contributes to the effectiveness and quality of the Identify Risks process. They include categories like technical - exte
Risk Categories
Report Performance
Team Development
Expert Judgment
44. Responses to emerging risks that was previously unidentified or accepted. These were not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event.
Workaround plans
Similarities between Operations and Projects
Fixed- price contracts
Procurement Statements of Work (SOW)
45. Process of formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables
Regulation
Project Time Management
Analogous Estimating / Top-down
Verify Scope
46. This is done to take care of risks that were not identified in the risk response plan - or their impact on objectives is greater than expected.
Requirements Management Plan
Additional Risk Response Planning
Project Portfolio Management
Monitor and Control Risks
47. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.
Checklists
Interviews
Simulation
Facilitated Workshops
48. The process of analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements - and schedule constrains to create the project schedule
Develop Schedule
Perform Quality Control
Time and Material (T&M) Contracts
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
49. Structured review of the procurement process originating from the Plan Procurements process through Administer Procurements process. Objective is to identify successes and failures that warrant recognition in the preparation or administration of othe
Work Results
Source Selection Criteria
Procurement audits
Project Scope
50. Process of redefining the cost performance/schedule/performance measurement/technical baseline. If cost variances are severe - re-baselining is needed to provide a realistic measure of performance.
Project Procurement Management
Re-baselining
Risk management policies
Schedule Baseline