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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






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






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






4. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






5. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






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






7. 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






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






9. Shows the type of resources broken down






10. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






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






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






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






14. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






15. A milestone has a ______duration






16. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






17. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






18. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 3 main components of the communication model






24. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






25. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






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






27. 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.






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






29. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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

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36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






40. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






41. 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






42. Commuincation within the project






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






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. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start