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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






3. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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)






9. 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






10. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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






17. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






18. 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






19. 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






20. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






21. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






22. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






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






24. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement

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25. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories






26. 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.






27. A milestone has a ______duration






28. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






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






30. Communication in writing or oral






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






40. 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.






41. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






47. 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






48. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






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






50. 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