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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The policies - guidelines - or procedures that govern the recruitment of staff.
Staffing Requirements
Recruitment Practices
Develop Schedule
Mathematical Analysis
2. Subdivision of project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components
Decomposition
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Project Integration Management
Differences between Operations and Project
3. 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.
Triggers
Requirements Documentation
Project Communications Management
Mandatory Dependencies (or Hard Logic)
4. 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.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Rework
Project Management
Define Activities
5. A management control point where the resource plans - scope - schedule and actual cost are integrated and compared to earned value for performance measurement.
Configuration Management System
Budget Updates
Control Account
Procurement negotiations
6. Seller is a subcontractor - vendor - or supplier - who will typically manage the work of the project. Buyer is the customer who has outsourced work to the seller.
Forecasting
Transference
Buyer-Seller relationship
Schedule Baseline
7. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships - and productivity.
Collocation
Control Account
Conduct Procurements
Identify Stakeholders
8. It includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - dissemination - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Project Communications Management
Project Human Resource Management
Control Costs
9. A structured review of the seller's progress to deliver project scope and quality - within cost and on schedule - as compared to the contract.
Define Scope
Procurement audits
Quality
Procurement performance reviews
10. The expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work break down structure component - or the project.
Estimate to Complete (ETC)
Resource Calendar
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
Scope Statement
11. It is used to identify stakeholders that can provide information on detailed project and product requirements. It contains the following information regarding the identified stakeholders: identification information (name - designation - location - co
Project Schedule
Define Scope
Stakeholder register
Trend Analysis
12. Describes the extent to which a risk is known or understood. Measures extent of data available as well as reliability of data.
Focus groups
Data precision
Project Scope
Scope Statement
13. This involves calculating the theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activities without regard to any resource pool restrictions.
Parametric Estimating
Mathematical Analysis
Critical Path Methodology (CPM)
Activity List
14. Lists or files maintained with information on prospective sellers. These lists will generally have information on relevant past experience and other characteristics of the prospective sellers
Project Portfolio Management
Qualified seller lists
Control Schedule
Crashing
15. Documents the characteristics of the product - result - or service which the project is undertaken to create.
Observations
Estimate Activity Resources
Distribute Information
Product Description
16. Describes the need - justification - requirements - and current boundaries for the project.
Conditional Diagramming Methods
Quantitatively based durations
Scope baseline
Proposals
17. This compares technical accomplishments during project execution with the project management plan's schedule of technical achievement.
Quality
Earned Value Analysis
Residual Risks
Technical performance measurement
18. Project Simulation uses a model that translates the specified detailed uncertainties of the project into their potential impact on project objectives.
Determine Budget
Precedence Relationships
Simulation
Project Plan Updates
19. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments.
Collect Requirements
Acquire Project Team
Re-baselining
Project Records
20. The state - quality - or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. An applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.
Constraints
Probability and impact matrix
Project Plan
Sensitivity Analysis
21. For many procurement items - the procuring organization may elect to either prepare its own independent estimate - or have an estimate of costs prepared by an outside professional estimator - to serve as a benchmark on proposed responses.
Risk Audits
Mathematical Analysis
Independent estimates
Requirements Traceability Matrix
22. The document that sets out the format and establishes the activities and criteria for planning - structuring - and controlling the project costs. The cost management plan is contained in - or is a subsidiary plan of - the project management plan.
Quality Management Plan
Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique (GERT)
Observations
Program
23. Involves developing a better understanding of the product of the project
Product Analysis
Constraints
Performance Reviews
Contingency - Buffer - Reserve
24. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas - or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts which data can be addressed later in Perform qualitative and quantitative
Mitigation
Contract
Performance Reviews
Brainstorming
25. Modifications to the cost estimation prepared for the project
Subproject
Product description
Revised Cost Estimates
Constraints
26. 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
Project Assumption Testing
Resource Calendar
Procurement Documents
Mathematical Analysis
27. Technique to evaluate the degree to which data about risks is useful for risk management.
Resource Pool Descriptions
Probability and impact matrix
Project Scope Management
Data Precision Ranking
28. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints.
Corrective Action
Activity List
Project Risk Management
Resource Leveling
29. The process to identify and document project roles - responsibilities - and required skills - report relationships - and create a staffing management plan.
Information Distribution Methods
Source Selection Criteria
Develop Human Resource Plan
Fast Tracking
30. An applicable restriction that will affect the performance of the project/process.
Mathematical Analysis
Constraints
Cost-reimbursable contracts
Identify Stakeholders
31. Risk Audits examine and document the effectiveness of risk responses in dealing with identified risks and their root causes - as well as the effectiveness of the risk management process.
Tolerances vs. Control limits
Total Float
Risk Audits
Cost Management Plan
32. Activities should have a coding structure to allow sorting and/or extractions based on different attributes assigned to the activities.
Project Records
Coding Structure
Deliverable
Identify Stakeholders
33. It is a tool and technique which is used to determine the information needs of the project stakeholders. This is a key component for planning the project's actual communications. It would assist in determining and limiting who will communicate with w
Project Plan Updates
Control Scope
Process Adjustments
Communication Requirements Analysis
34. A formal or informal approach to obtain information from stakeholders by talking to them directly
Interviews
Team Development
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Independent estimates
35. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Project Scope
Project Quality Management
Requirements Management Plan
Scope Change Control System
36. Used to identify project and product requirements; some of the techniques used are: Brainstorming - Nominal group technique - The Delphi technique - Idea/mind mapping - and Affinity diagram.
Conduct Procurements
Project Assumption Testing
Group Creativity Techniques
Communications management plan
37. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure.
Procurement negotiations
Code of Accounts
Prototypes
Lessons Learned
38. Meetings that are regularly scheduled to exchange and analyze information about the project and its performance.
Focus groups
Status Review Meetings
Direct costs
Requirements Traceability Matrix
39. Includes the processes that help to estimate - budget - and control costs - so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
Verify Scope
Stakeholder register
Plan Communications
Project Cost Management
40. Uses a project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into their potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Project simulation uses computer models and estimates of risk and are
Acceptance
Decomposition
Simulation
Work Results
41. The process of making relevant information available to project stakeholders in a timely manner - as planned. Performed throughout the entire project life cycle and in all management processes.
Constraints
Triggers
Distribute Information
Facilitated Workshops
42. Costs allocated to the project by the performing organization as a cost of doing business (e.g. - salaries of corporate executives). Usually calculated as a percentage of direct costs.
Work Results
Staffing Requirements
Pareto Diagram/ Chart
Indirect costs / Overhead costs
43. Describes the processes concerned with identifying - analyzing - and responding to project risk. It includes planning risk management - identifying risks - performing qualitative risk analysis - performing quantitative risk analysis - planning risk r
Communications management plan
Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)
Project Risk Management
Simulation
44. Describes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It includes estimating the cost - determining the budget - and controlling the costs.
Bid / quotation
Project Cost Management
Status Review Meetings
Estimate Activity Resources
45. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming item into compliance with requirements or specifications. It is a frequent cause of project overruns in most application areas.
Report Performance
Acceptance
Technical performance measurement
Rework
46. Probability that a risk will occur.
Group Decision Making Techniques
Identify Risks
Mitigation
Risk probability
47. 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.
Attribute Sampling vs. Variables Sampling
Project Files
Deliverable
Differences between Operations and Project
48. Process of developing a detailed description of the project and product
Root Cause Analysis
Define Scope
Trend Analysis
Design of Experiments (DOE)
49. They possess a blend of functional and projectized characteristics. Weak matrices maintain many of the characteristics of a functional organization - and the Project Manager's role is more that of a coordinator or expediter than that of a manager. Si
Matrix Organization
Identify Risks
Crashing
Manage Stakeholder
50. Process of implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks - and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.
Assumptions
Monitor and Control Risks
To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI)
Critical Path Method