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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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 sigma
Distribute Information
Risk Breakdown Structure
Vertical Comm
2. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Activity List
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Run Chart
Salience Model
3. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Develop Project Team
Monte Carlo Technique
4. 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
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Start to Start
Milestone Schedule
Free (or Total) float
5. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Risk Register
Resource breakdown structure
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Work Package
6. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
90%
Resource leveling
Start to Start
Power/ Interest Grid
7. Communication formula
Cost of Quality
Mgmt by Objectives
Smoothing and withdrawal
n *(n -1) /2
8. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Formal Power
Project Selection
Create WBS
The 100% Rule
9. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Mgmt by Objectives
Plan Communication
Formal Power
10. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
PMIS
Expert Power
Develop Human Resource Plan
Develop Project Team
11. 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
Elements of scope
Contingency Reserves
Just-in-time (JIT)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
12. 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
Salience Model
Work Package
Pareto Diagram
n *(n -1) /2
13. 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
Milestone Schedule
Mediator
Change Control System
Salience Model
14. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Phase results are verified and documented
Project Scope Statement
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Indentify Risk
15. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Activity List
External Comm
Time series method
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
16. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Mgmt by Objectives
Cost of Quality
Summary Schdule
Visionary
17. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Horizontal Comm
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Life-cycle costing
Scatter Diagram
18. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Root cause analysis
Run of Seven Rule
External Comm
19. Communication with peers
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Horizontal Comm
6 sigma
Team development Life Cycle
20. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Resource leveling
Penalty Power
Risk Triggers
21. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Oganization breakdown structure
Demings' 14 principles of Management
22. 3 main components of the communication model
Director
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Breach
Penalty Power
23. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Make money and to protect the public
90%
24. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Concept of the Halo Theory
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Progress Report
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
25. 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
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Elements of scope
Finish to Finish
Collaborating
26. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Perks
External Contraints
Smoothing and withdrawal
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
27. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Indentify Risk
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Manage Project Team
Risk Breakdown Structure
28. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Change Control System
Communications requirement analysis
Start to Start
29. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Code of Accounts
Assumptions
Pareto Diagram
30. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Manage Project Team
Work around
Elements of scope
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
31. What is the number source of conflict?
Risk breakdown structure
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Scheduling
Critical Path Method
32. 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
Finish to Finish
Contingency Reserves
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
33. 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.
PMIS
Sigma
Summary Schdule
RAM charts
34. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Commincations Mgmt plan
PMIS
Formal Power
Project Scope Statment
35. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Hygiene factors
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Cost plus percentage of cost
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
36. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Smoothing/Accommodating
Sample Testing
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Milestone list
37. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Variance Analysis
Nonconformance
Causal/econometric
Resource leveling
38. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Root cause analysis
Scatter Diagram
39. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Critical Chain Method
Life-cycle costing
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
40. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Breach
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Coaching
41. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Interactive Communication
Power/Influence Grid
Penalty Power
Project Slack
42. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Coaching
Influence/Impact Grid
Pure Risk
Change Control System
43. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Facilitator
Mediator
Design of Experiments
44. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Fringe
Contingency Reserves
6 sigma
45. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Plan Risk Mgmt
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Charateristics of a project
Influence/Impact Grid
46. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Level of Scope development
Code of Accounts
Emphasis on defining scope
47. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Zero duration
Run Chart
Make money and to protect the public
Critical Path Method
48. 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
Mutual Exclusivity
Bottom-up estimating
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Life-cycle costing
49. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Start to Finsh
Summary Schdule
Risk Register
Project Scope Statment
50. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Confronting/ Problem solving
Offical
Benchmarking
Verbal and Non-verbal
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