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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Rolling Wave Planning
Mgmt by Objectives
Facilitator
Make money and to protect the public
2. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Commincations Mgmt plan
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Nonconformance
A lead
3. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Mgmt by Objectives
Fast Tracking
Report Performance
4. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Work around
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Risk Register
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
5. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Mgmt by Objectives
Salience Model
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Bottom-up Estimating
6. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Develop Project Team
Scheduling
Life-cycle costing
Milestone list
7. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Just-in-time (JIT)
Work Package
8. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Risk Owner
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Requested Changes
9. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
ISO 3 Steps
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Residual Risk
Bill of materials
10. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Salience Model
Cost plus percentage of cost
Concept of the Halo Theory
11. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Autocratic
Start to Start
Hygiene factors
Gold Plating
12. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Conformance
External Comm
Impact
Crashing
13. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Collaborating
Commincations Mgmt plan
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Push Communications
14. 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.
Offical
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Contraints
Influence/Impact grid
15. 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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16. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Formal Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Impact
17. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Influence/Impact Grid
Smoothing/Accommodating
Total Quality Management TQM
Risk Owner
18. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Plan Risk Mgmt
Finish to Finish
Brainstorming
Time series method
19. 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
Expert Power
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Coaching
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
20. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Contingency Reserves
Organization Breakdown Structure
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
21. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Smoothing and withdrawal
Charismatic
Variance Analysis
22. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Statistical Independence
Charismatic
n *(n -1) /2
Concept of the Halo Theory
23. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Milestone Schedule
Facilitator
Verbal and Non-verbal
3 Processes of quality managment
24. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Change Control System
The 100% Rule
Contingency Reserves
Push Communications
25. 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
Smoothing/Accommodating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Bill of materials
Run of Seven Rule
26. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Statistical Independence
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Total Quality Management TQM
Communications requirement analysis
27. 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)
Work around
LAG
Risk breakdown structure
Push Communications
28. 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
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Resource breakdown structure
Plan Risk Mgmt
Rolling Wave Planning
29. 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.
Summary Schdule
Assumptions
The 100% Rule
Business Risk
30. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Work Authorization System
Develop Human Resource Plan
Expectancy Theory
Stakeholder Analysis
31. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Summary Schdule
Expert Power
Organization Breakdown Structure
32. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
The 100% Rule
Create WBS
6 sigma
Work Package
33. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Root cause analysis
RAM charts
34. 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
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Bottom-up estimating
Charateristics of a project
Contingency Reserves
35. Communication with peers
Sample Testing
Referent Power
Horizontal Comm
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
36. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Bill of materials
Finish to Finish
Judgemental methods
Sigma
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
Cost of Quality
Stakeholder Analysis
Secondary Risk
Influence/Impact Grid
38. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Project Scope Statement
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Director
Bottom-up estimating
39. One choice does not include any other choices
Critical Path Method
Resource breakdown structure
Develop Project Charter
Mutual Exclusivity
40. 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
Life-cycle costing
Plan Risk Mgmt
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Bottom-up estimating
41. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
n *(n -1) /2
Brainstorming
Approved Change
42. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Crashing
Report Performance
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Strong Matrix
43. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
FORMAL Communication
Conformance
Residual Risk
Develop Project Charter
44. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Visionary
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Perks
Charateristics of a project
45. 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
Statistical Independence
Mediator
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
46. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Zero duration
Brainstorming
Referent Power
Crashing
47. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Crashing
Sigma
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Stakeholder Analysis
48. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Gold Plating
Causal/econometric
Residual Risk
Project management and quality
49. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Facilitator
Indentify Stakholders
Judgemental methods
Commincations Mgmt plan
50. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
RAM charts
Impact
Mgmt by Objectives
External Contraints