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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
90%
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Salience Model
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
2. 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
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Start to Start
Contraints
Project Selection
3. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Rolling Wave Planning
Approved Change
Delphi Technique
Emphasis on defining scope
4. 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.
Scope Baseline
Gold Plating
Organization Breakdown Structure
Plan Communication
5. 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.
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Pure Risk
Assumptions
Work Authorization System
6. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Run Chart
Hygiene factors
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Run of Seven Rule
7. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Statistical Independence
6 sigma
Cost of Quality
Business Risk
8. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
A lead
People responsible for quality
Distribute Information
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
9. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Requested Changes
Emphasis on defining scope
Demings' 14 principles of Management
n *(n -1) /2
10. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
3 Processes of quality managment
Elements of scope
6 sigma
Conformance
11. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Finish to Start (Most common)
Fringe
Pure Risk
The 100% Rule
12. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
External Contraints
Interactive Communication
PMIS
ISO 3 Steps
13. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Distribute Information
Work around
14. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Power/ Interest Grid
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Team development Life Cycle
Root cause analysis
15. 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
Autocratic
Fast Tracking
Cost plus percentage of cost
Bottom-up Estimating
16. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Scatter Diagram
Charateristics of a project
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Change Control System
17. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Penalty Power
Facilitator
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
18. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mgmt by Objectives
Power/Influence Grid
Causal/econometric
19. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Indentify Stakholders
Distribute Information
Free (or Total) float
Bottom-up Estimating
20. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Critical Chain Method
Confronting/ Problem solving
External Comm
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
21. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
People responsible for quality
Statistical Independence
Reward Power
Breach
22. 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.
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Monte Carlo Technique
Visionary
Influence/Impact Grid
23. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Plan Risk Mgmt
Influence/Impact Grid
Time series method
24. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Impact
Start to Finsh
External Contraints
25. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Requested Changes
Pareto Diagram
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
26. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
Charateristics of a project
Unoffical Comm
27. 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
Indentify Risk
Scatter Diagram
Pull Communication
Pareto Diagram
28. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Summary Schdule
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
External Comm
Assumptions
29. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Pareto Diagram
Root cause analysis
Sigma
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
30. 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
Horizontal Comm
Forcing
Director
Run Chart
31. Communication formula
Mediator
Brainstorming
Impact
n *(n -1) /2
32. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Reward Power
Level of Scope development
Delphi Technique
Critical Path Method
33. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Critical Path Method
Risk Owner
n *(n -1) /2
Approved Change
34. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Work around
Hygiene factors
Internal comm
Nonconformance
35. Difference between internal and external risk
Project Scope Statement
Statistical Independence
Just-in-time (JIT)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
36. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Concept of the Halo Theory
FORMAL Communication
People responsible for quality
37. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Work Authorization System
Brainstorming
Resource breakdown structure
Variance Analysis
38. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Plan Risk Mgmt
Level of Scope development
Indentify Stakholders
Analogous or Top down Estimating
39. 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
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Pure Risk
Work Authorization System
Change Control Board
40. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Internal comm
Expert Power
Confronting/ Problem solving
Power/Influence Grid
41. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Strong Matrix
Risk Register
Organization Breakdown Structure
42. 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)
Critical Path Method
Expectancy Theory
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Progress Report
43. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Pareto Diagram
90%
Bottom-up estimating
44. What is the number source of conflict?
Internal comm
Work Authorization System
Scheduling
Start to Finsh
45. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Phase results are verified and documented
Pareto Diagram
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
46. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Director
Risk Register
Pull Communication
Autocratic
47. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Work around
External Comm
Manage Project Team
48. 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
Coaching
Make money and to protect the public
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Compromising
49. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Judgemental methods
Secondary Risk
Facilitator
Power/ Interest Grid
50. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Free (or Total) float
Offical
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Concept of the Halo Theory