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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






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






3. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






4. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






5. Commuincation within the project






6. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






7. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






8. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






9. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






10. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






11. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations






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

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13. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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.






19. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






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






21. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






22. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






23. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






24. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






25. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






26. One choice does not include any other choices






27. Communication that is not on the record






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






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






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






31. 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






32. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






34. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






35. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






36. 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)






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






38. 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.






39. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.






40. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






41. Difference between internal and external risk






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






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






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






45. 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






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






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






48. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






49. 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






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