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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






2. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






3. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






4. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






5. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






6. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






7. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






8. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






9. Key tool that is a statistical method or tool - that helps identify which factors may influence specific variable of a product or process under development or in production. It lets you change many factors at once.






10. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






11. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






12. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






13. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.






14. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






15. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






16. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.






17. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






18. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur






19. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






20. Communication that is not on the record






21. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






22. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






23. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team






24. What is the output of Identify Risk?






25. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






26. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






27. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






28. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






29. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






30. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






31. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






32. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






33. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






34. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






35. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






36. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






37. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






38. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.






39. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






40. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called






41. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






42. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






43. What is the number source of conflict?






44. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






45. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.






46. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






47. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs






48. Communication in writing or oral






49. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






50. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control