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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
People responsible for quality
Smoothing/Accommodating
Strong Matrix
Communications requirement analysis
2. 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
FORMAL Communication
Project Scope Statment
Influence/Impact Grid
3. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Implied warranty
Start to Finsh
Collaborating
Indentify Risk
4. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Fringe
Rolling Wave Planning
Milestone Schedule
Closing the project
5. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Secondary Risk
Sigma
3 Processes of quality managment
Mgmt by Objectives
6. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Referent Power
Assumptions
Bottom-up estimating
Root cause analysis
7. 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
Contraints
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Mgmt Reserves
Compromising
8. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Business Risk
Sigma
Assumptions
9. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Create WBS
Rolling Wave Planning
Gold Plating
Forcing
10. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Judgemental methods
Organization Breakdown Structure
Perks
Cost of Quality
11. 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.
Milestone Schedule
Elements of scope
Fast Tracking
Penalty Power
12. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Risk Triggers
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Forcing
Benchmarking
13. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
Summary Schdule
Influence/Impact Grid
Just-in-time (JIT)
14. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Formal Power
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Indentify Risk
Secondary Risk
15. 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.
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
PMIS
90%
Milestone list
16. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Concept of the Halo Theory
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Make money and to protect the public
Critical Chain Method
17. 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.
Make money and to protect the public
Plan Communication
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Acquire Project Team
18. 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
Design of Experiments
External Comm
Bottom-up Estimating
Acquire Project Team
19. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Emphasis on defining scope
Statistical Independence
Work Authorization System
Approved Change
20. 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
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Influence/Impact Grid
Push Communications
Referent Power
21. 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
A Lag
Summary Schdule
Benchmarking
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
22. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Acquire Project Team
Just-in-time (JIT)
Coaching
Phase results are verified and documented
23. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Project Scope Statement
Develop Human Resource Plan
Staffing Mgmt Plan
24. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Charateristics of a project
Visionary
Impact
25. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Variance Analysis
Bill of materials
Develop Human Resource Plan
Plan Communication
26. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Coaching
Mgmt by Objectives
Visionary
Plan Risk Mgmt
27. 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
28. 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
Project Scope Statment
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Resource breakdown structure
Referent Power
29. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Salience Model
Brainstorming
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Expectancy Theory
30. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Pull Communication
Create WBS
Work Package
Secondary Risk
31. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Fringe
Crashing
Mgmt Reserves
Phase results are verified and documented
32. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Pure Risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Change Control System
33. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Conformance
Bottom-up Estimating
Autocratic
Start to Finsh
34. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Activity List
Causal/econometric
Resource breakdown structure
Stakeholder Analysis
35. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Design of Experiments
Sample Testing
Progress Report
36. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Project Slack
Influence/Impact Grid
Sample Testing
37. 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
Charismatic
n *(n -1) /2
Forcasting
Influence/Impact Grid
38. Communication that is not on the record
Project Scope Statement
Charateristics of a project
Variance Analysis
Unoffical Comm
39. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Communications requirement analysis
RAM charts
Project Slack
Autocratic
40. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Just-in-time (JIT)
Change Control System
Pure Risk
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
41. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Requested Changes
Secondary Risk
Risk breakdown structure
42. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Distribute Information
Root cause analysis
Develop Project Team
Critical Chain Method
43. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Pure Risk
Project Scope Statment
Work Authorization System
44. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Pareto Diagram
Salience Model
Verbal and Non-verbal
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
45. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Business Risk
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Gold Plating
Summary Schdule
46. 3 main components of the communication model
Project Selection
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Confronting/ Problem solving
FORMAL Communication
47. 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
Vertical Comm
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Start to Finsh
Risk Breakdown Structure
48. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Resource breakdown structure
Benchmarking
Code of Accounts
Push Communications
49. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Statistical Independence
Run Chart
Requested Changes
People responsible for quality
50. 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.
Make money and to protect the public
Risk Breakdown Structure
Monte Carlo Technique
Coaching