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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shows the type of resources broken down
FORMAL Communication
Resource breakdown structure
Autocratic
Phase results are verified and documented
2. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Breach
Interactive Communication
Monte Carlo Technique
Perks
3. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Contingency Reserves
A Lag
4. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Monte Carlo Technique
Indentify Risk
Analogous or Top down Estimating
LAG
5. One choice does not include any other choices
The 100% Rule
Mutual Exclusivity
Risk Register
Root cause analysis
6. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Collaborating
Assumptions
PMIS
Develop Human Resource Plan
7. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Reward Power
Code of Accounts
Summary Schdule
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
8. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Start to Finsh
Commincations Mgmt plan
Elements of scope
Autocratic
9. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Crashing
Judgemental methods
People responsible for quality
Work Authorization System
10. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Expert Power
Mutual Exclusivity
Facilitator
Smoothing/Accommodating
11. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Pull Communication
Rolling Wave Planning
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
12. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
Milestone list
People responsible for quality
Variance Analysis
13. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Free (or Total) float
Conformance
Nonconformance
14. 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
Elements of scope
Bill of materials
Summary Schdule
Rolling Wave Planning
15. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Penalty Power
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Milestone list
16. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Develop Project Team
Forcing
Just-in-time (JIT)
Mgmt Reserves
17. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Approved Change
Mgmt Reserves
18. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Develop Project Team
The 100% Rule
Smoothing and withdrawal
19. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Business Risk
Work Package
Summary Schdule
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
20. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Finish to Finish
Risk breakdown structure
Acquire Project Team
Create WBS
21. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
3 Processes of quality managment
Run of Seven Rule
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Contingency Reserves
22. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Secondary Risk
Critical Path Method
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
23. 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
Influence/Impact grid
PMIS
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
3 Processes of quality managment
24. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Offical
Interactive Communication
Scheduling
25. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Mediator
Push Communications
Run of Seven Rule
Change Control System
26. 3 main components of the communication model
Impact
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
27. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Salience Model
Life-cycle costing
Scope Baseline
Pure Risk
28. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Work Authorization System
Sigma
Phase results are verified and documented
Project Slack
29. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Offical
Risk breakdown structure
Penalty Power
Time series method
30. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Influence/Impact Grid
Variance Analysis
Work Authorization System
Communications requirement analysis
31. 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
Pull Communication
Resource leveling
Work Authorization System
Business Risk
32. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Withdrawing/Avoiding
External Contraints
Organization Breakdown Structure
Secondary Risk
33. A milestone has a ______duration
Sample Testing
Root cause analysis
Zero duration
Delphi Technique
34. 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
Charateristics of a project
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Perks
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
35. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Distribute Information
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Make money and to protect the public
Activity List
36. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Develop Project Team
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Closing the project
Team development Life Cycle
37. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Project Scope Statement
Root cause analysis
Start to Finsh
Expert Power
38. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Facilitator
Work Package
Communications requirement analysis
Risk Owner
39. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Start to Start
Influence/Impact grid
40. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Critical Chain Method
Root cause analysis
Organization Breakdown Structure
41. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
LAG
Power/Influence Grid
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Register
42. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Strong Matrix
Mgmt by Objectives
Organization Breakdown Structure
43. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
FORMAL Communication
Formal Power
Scatter Diagram
Conformance
44. 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.
Internal comm
Assumptions
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Bottom-up estimating
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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Scope Baseline
Progress Report
46. Communication in writing or oral
Nonconformance
Project Slack
Written or oral
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
47. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Project Scope Statment
Referent Power
Offical
A Lag
48. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Cost of Quality
Internal comm
Total Quality Management TQM
49. Communication formula
Activity List
Brainstorming
Approved Change
n *(n -1) /2
50. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Mgmt by Objectives
Benchmarking
Level of Scope development
Indentify Risk