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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






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






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






4. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






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






6. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






7. What is the output of Identify Risk?






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






9. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






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






11. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






12. Communication that is not on the record






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






14. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






15. Delphi Technique Interviewing






16. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






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






18. Shows the type of resources broken down






19. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated






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






21. Communication formula






22. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






23. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






24. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






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






26. Communication in writing or oral






27. 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






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






29. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem






30. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






31. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






36. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






42. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






43. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






44. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






45. 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






46. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






47. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






48. What is the number source of conflict?






49. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






50. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.