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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






2. 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






3. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






4. Delphi Technique Interviewing






5. 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






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






7. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






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






9. 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






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






11. Commuincation within the project






12. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






13. 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






14. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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15. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






16. 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






17. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






19. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






20. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






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






22. Communication up and down the organization






23. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






24. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






25. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






26. Difference between internal and external risk






27. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






28. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel






29. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project






30. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






31. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






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






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






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






38. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






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






40. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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41. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






42. 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






43. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






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






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






46. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






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






48. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






50. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free