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PMP: Project Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






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






3. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






4. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






5. 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.






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






7. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






8. 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.






9. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






10. 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






11. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






12. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






13. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






14. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






15. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






16. Communication up and down the organization






17. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






18. 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






19. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






20. 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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






27. 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






28. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






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






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






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






32. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






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






34. 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






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






36. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






37. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil






38. Communication formula






39. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






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






41. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






42. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






43. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






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






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






46. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






47. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






48. 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






49. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






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