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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Smoothing/Accommodating
Total Quality Management TQM
Internal comm
Push Communications
2. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Mutual Exclusivity
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Expectancy Theory
3. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
3 Processes of quality managment
Project Scope Statment
Vertical Comm
4. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Delphi Technique
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Milestone list
LAG
5. 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
Variance Analysis
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Project Selection
Run Chart
6. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Plan Communication
Benchmarking
Forcasting
Brainstorming
7. 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.
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
PMIS
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
8. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Root cause analysis
Mutual Exclusivity
Phase results are verified and documented
9. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Internal comm
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Confronting/ Problem solving
Delphi Technique
10. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Forcing
Causal/econometric
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
11. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Charismatic
Smoothing and withdrawal
Assumptions
12. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Forcasting
Start to Finsh
Resource leveling
13. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Just-in-time (JIT)
Root cause analysis
Free (or Total) float
14. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Influence/Impact Grid
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Manage Project Team
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
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.
Influence/Impact grid
Confronting/ Problem solving
Forcasting
Milestone Schedule
16. Communication in writing or oral
RAM charts
Written or oral
Approved Change
Milestone list
17. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Resource breakdown structure
Benchmarking
Nonconformance
Closing the project
18. 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
Start to Start
Unoffical Comm
Charateristics of a project
Elements of scope
19. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Phase results are verified and documented
Smoothing/Accommodating
Start to Finsh
Root cause analysis
20. 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
Coaching
Assumptions
Life-cycle costing
Residual Risk
21. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Change Control System
Pure Risk
Conformance
Bill of materials
22. Communication formula
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
n *(n -1) /2
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Finish to Finish
23. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
LAG
Indentify Risk
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Sigma
24. 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
Risk Owner
Summary Schdule
Oganization breakdown structure
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
25. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Smoothing and withdrawal
Cost plus percentage of cost
Mgmt Reserves
Develop Human Resource Plan
26. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Withdrawing/Avoiding
People responsible for quality
Stakeholder Analysis
Perks
27. 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
Run of Seven Rule
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Progress Report
28. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Indentify Stakholders
Resource breakdown structure
29. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Mgmt by Objectives
Bill of materials
People responsible for quality
30. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Smoothing/Accommodating
Activity List
Forcasting
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
31. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Forcasting
Power/ Interest Grid
Root cause analysis
Time series method
32. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Indentify Stakholders
Root cause analysis
Plan Risk Mgmt
33. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
FORMAL Communication
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
34. Commuincation within the project
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Internal comm
People responsible for quality
Judgemental methods
35. 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.
Collaborating
FORMAL Communication
A lead
Forcing
36. 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.
Scope Baseline
Start to Start
Cost of Quality
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
37. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Design of Experiments
Work Authorization System
External Comm
RAM charts
38. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Start to Start
Contingency Reserves
39. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Start to Start
Oganization breakdown structure
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Run Chart
40. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Work Package
Nonconformance
Resource breakdown structure
Manage Project Team
41. 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
Collaborating
Milestone Schedule
Just-in-time (JIT)
Pull Communication
42. 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
Autocratic
Develop Project Team
Team development Life Cycle
Resource leveling
43. 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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44. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Zero duration
Emphasis on defining scope
Controlling communication
Statistical Independence
45. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Pure Risk
Expert Power
Develop Project Charter
People responsible for quality
46. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Risk Owner
Strong Matrix
Run Chart
Commincations Mgmt plan
47. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Critical Chain Method
Smoothing and withdrawal
Causal/econometric
90%
48. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
RAM charts
Cost of Quality
Coaching
Risk Owner
49. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Contraints
Residual Risk
Salience Model
Unoffical Comm
50. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Expert Power
Risk Owner
Pure Risk
Work around