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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Judgemental methods
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Formal Power
2. 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.
External Contraints
Scope Baseline
Progress Report
Conformance
3. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Impact
Benchmarking
Project Scope Statment
Bottom-up Estimating
4. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Develop Project Team
Phase results are verified and documented
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
5. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Scatter Diagram
Push Communications
Staffing Mgmt Plan
6. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Plan Risk Mgmt
Time series method
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
External Comm
7. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
PMIS
Life-cycle costing
8. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Compromising
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Penalty Power
9. Communication with peers
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Horizontal Comm
Compromising
Analogous or Top down Estimating
10. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Report Performance
Requested Changes
Facilitator
11. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Create WBS
Benchmarking
Statistical Independence
12. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Progress Report
Risk Breakdown Structure
Expert Power
Variance Analysis
13. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
6 sigma
90%
Director
Fringe
14. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Autocratic
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
A lead
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
15. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Bill of materials
Indentify Stakholders
Acquire Project Team
Pull Communication
16. 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
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Work around
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
17. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Elements of scope
Risk Register
Internal comm
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
18. 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.
Cost plus percentage of cost
Bottom-up Estimating
n *(n -1) /2
Plan Communication
19. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Work around
Communications requirement analysis
Bottom-up estimating
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
20. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
External Contraints
Risk breakdown structure
Vertical Comm
21. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Assumptions
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Work Package
22. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Mgmt Reserves
Breach
Commincations Mgmt plan
23. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Conformance
Root cause analysis
Charismatic
Vertical Comm
24. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Pareto Diagram
Project Scope Statement
Critical Path Method
Salience Model
25. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Slack
Gold Plating
Requested Changes
26. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Progress Report
Horizontal Comm
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Make money and to protect the public
27. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Fringe
Zero duration
Expectancy Theory
28. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Autocratic
Requested Changes
Create WBS
Charismatic
29. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
A Lag
Pure Risk
Project Slack
Nonconformance
30. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Acquire Project Team
Phase results are verified and documented
Closing the project
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
31. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Free (or Total) float
Cost of Quality
Finish to Start (Most common)
Life-cycle costing
32. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Requested Changes
Controlling communication
Horizontal Comm
33. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl
Bottom-up estimating
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Gold Plating
Team development Life Cycle
34. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Emphasis on defining scope
Expectancy Theory
Time series method
35. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
FORMAL Communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Rolling Wave Planning
36. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
A lead
Business Risk
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Project Slack
37. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Develop Human Resource Plan
Secondary Risk
Free (or Total) float
38. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Project Scope Statement
Distribute Information
Power/ Interest Grid
39. 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.
Visionary
Controlling communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Salience Model
40. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Work Authorization System
Coaching
ISO 3 Steps
41. 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
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Monte Carlo Technique
Work Authorization System
42. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Elements of scope
Impact
Risk Triggers
Controlling communication
43. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Nonconformance
Pareto Diagram
Controlling communication
Risk Breakdown Structure
44. Shows the type of resources broken down
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Resource breakdown structure
Controlling communication
Work around
45. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
RAM charts
Indentify Risk
Referent Power
Contingency Reserves
46. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Gold Plating
Contraints
Judgemental methods
Develop Project Charter
47. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Total Quality Management TQM
Delphi Technique
Cost of Quality
Charismatic
48. 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
n *(n -1) /2
Mediator
Influence/Impact Grid
Emphasis on defining scope
49. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Collaborating
Change Control Board
Residual Risk
Breach
50. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Conformance
Develop Project Charter