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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






3. 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.






4. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






5. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






6. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






7. 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






8. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






9. 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






10. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






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






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






17. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






18. Shows the type of resources broken down






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






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






27. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






28. 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.






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






30. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






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






32. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






42. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






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






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






49. 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






50. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project