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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






2. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






3. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






4. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






5. 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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6. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






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






8. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






9. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






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






11. 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






12. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






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






14. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






15. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






16. 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






17. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






18. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






19. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






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






21. 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






22. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






23. 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.






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






25. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






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






27. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






28. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






29. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






30. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






31. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






32. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






33. 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.






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






35. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






36. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






37. 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






38. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






39. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






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






41. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






42. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






43. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






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






45. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






46. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






47. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






48. 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






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






50. 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