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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






2. 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






3. 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






4. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






5. Communication up and down the organization






6. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






7. Commuincation within the project






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






9. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






10. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






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






12. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






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






14. 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.






15. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






16. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






17. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






18. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






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






20. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






21. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars






22. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






23. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






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






25. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






26. 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






27. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






28. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






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






30. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






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






32. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






33. A milestone has a ______duration






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






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






36. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues






37. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution






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






39. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






40. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






41. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






42. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






43. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






44. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






45. 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






46. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






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






48. 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






49. Communication that is not on the record






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