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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Risk breakdown structure
Change Control Board
Mgmt by Objectives
Power/Influence Grid
2. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Delphi Technique
Charismatic
Visionary
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
3. 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
Pareto Diagram
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Gold Plating
Coaching
4. Communication that is not on the record
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Project Scope Statement
Unoffical Comm
Offical
5. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Causal/econometric
Time series method
Compromising
6. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Elements of scope
Penalty Power
Offical
Total Quality Management TQM
7. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Project management and quality
Indentify Risk
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Penalty Power
8. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Work around
Bottom-up Estimating
Interactive Communication
9. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
90%
Hygiene factors
Withdrawing/Avoiding
10. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Acquire Project Team
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Resource breakdown structure
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
11. 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
Compromising
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Start to Finsh
Zero duration
12. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Unoffical Comm
Develop Project Team
6 sigma
Director
13. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Sample Testing
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
FORMAL Communication
Work Authorization System
14. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Penalty Power
Horizontal Comm
Power/ Interest Grid
15. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Requested Changes
Formal Power
Salience Model
16. 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.
Plan Communication
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Mutual Exclusivity
Just-in-time (JIT)
17. 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
Finish to Finish
Summary Schdule
Visionary
Design of Experiments
18. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
The 100% Rule
Pareto Diagram
Breach
Monte Carlo Technique
19. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Level of Scope development
Work around
Perks
Report Performance
20. 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
Emphasis on defining scope
Pull Communication
Compromising
Demings' 14 principles of Management
21. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Conformance
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
90%
Verbal and Non-verbal
22. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Conformance
RAM charts
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
23. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Visionary
Confronting/ Problem solving
Strong Matrix
Secondary Risk
24. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Forcasting
Project management and quality
n *(n -1) /2
Facilitator
25. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
External Contraints
PMIS
Scheduling
26. 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
Formal Power
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
27. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Closing the project
Work Package
People responsible for quality
Communications requirement analysis
28. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Level of Scope development
Risk Triggers
29. 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
Vertical Comm
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Hygiene factors
Commincations Mgmt plan
30. 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
Power/Influence Grid
Bottom-up Estimating
Rolling Wave Planning
Run Chart
31. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Risk Breakdown Structure
Closing the project
32. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Pull Communication
Collaborating
Causal/econometric
Nonconformance
33. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Visionary
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Plan Risk Mgmt
34. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Develop Project Team
Milestone Schedule
Project Slack
Crashing
35. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Milestone Schedule
Project Selection
Work Package
Verbal and Non-verbal
36. Commuincation within the project
Resource breakdown structure
Bottom-up Estimating
Internal comm
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
37. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Plan Risk Mgmt
Project Slack
Mgmt Reserves
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
38. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Approved Change
Conformance
Demings' 14 principles of Management
A Lag
39. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Scatter Diagram
Unoffical Comm
Plan Risk Mgmt
40. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
External Comm
Indentify Stakholders
RAM charts
Staffing Mgmt Plan
41. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Change Control System
Bottom-up Estimating
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
42. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk breakdown structure
Risk Register
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Schedules - project priorities - resources
43. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
Concept of the Halo Theory
PMIS
Staffing Mgmt Plan
44. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Influence/Impact Grid
ISO 3 Steps
Risk Triggers
Risk breakdown structure
45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
PMIS
Finish to Start (Most common)
Implied warranty
Smoothing and withdrawal
46. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Requested Changes
Controlling communication
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Develop Project Team
47. 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
External Contraints
Rolling Wave Planning
Vertical Comm
Power/ Interest Grid
48. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Variance Analysis
Cost of Quality
Demings' 14 principles of Management
49. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
Work Authorization System
Change Control Board
Commincations Mgmt plan
Internal comm
50. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Facilitator
Power/Influence Grid
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)