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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. Commuincation within the project






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






4. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






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

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16. 3 main components of the communication model






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






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






19. 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






20. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement

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21. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






22. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






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






24. 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






25. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






26. 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






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






28. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






29. 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






30. 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






31. Communication with peers






32. 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






33. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






34. 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






35. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






36. Communication that is not on the record






37. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






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






39. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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.






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)






48. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)






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






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







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