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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Plan Risk Mgmt
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Unoffical Comm
Project management and quality
2. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Visionary
Milestone list
Forcasting
Emphasis on defining scope
3. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Indentify Risk
Risk Breakdown Structure
n *(n -1) /2
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
4. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Scatter Diagram
Risk Triggers
Fringe
5. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Expectancy Theory
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Demings' 14 principles of Management
6. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Work Package
Manage Project Team
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Oganization breakdown structure
7. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Resource breakdown structure
Causal/econometric
3 Processes of quality managment
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
8. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Indentify Stakholders
A Lag
Strong Matrix
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
9. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Project management and quality
Secondary Risk
10. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Organization Breakdown Structure
PMIS
11. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Rolling Wave Planning
Hygiene factors
12. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Sigma
Risk Triggers
Collaborating
Bottom-up estimating
13. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Resource leveling
Breach
Unoffical Comm
Expert Power
14. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Root cause analysis
Resource leveling
Emphasis on defining scope
15. A milestone has a ______duration
Secondary Risk
Zero duration
Project Selection
Fringe
16. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Create WBS
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
90%
Just-in-time (JIT)
17. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Project Selection
Develop Project Charter
Milestone list
Risk Register
18. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Emphasis on defining scope
Smoothing/Accommodating
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Change Control System
19. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Judgemental methods
Smoothing and withdrawal
Distribute Information
Work Authorization System
20. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Requested Changes
Risk Owner
21. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Forcing
Mutual Exclusivity
Verbal and Non-verbal
22. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Indentify Risk
Conformance
Free (or Total) float
23. 3 main components of the communication model
Monte Carlo Technique
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Cost of Quality
Project Scope Statement
24. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Controlling communication
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Assumptions
External Comm
25. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Scheduling
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Start to Finsh
Internal comm
26. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Influence/Impact grid
Approved Change
Rolling Wave Planning
Scatter Diagram
27. 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.
Smoothing/Accommodating
Free (or Total) float
Design of Experiments
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
28. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Design of Experiments
Power/Influence Grid
Risk breakdown structure
Residual Risk
29. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Project management and quality
Mgmt by Objectives
ISO 3 Steps
Smoothing and withdrawal
30. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars
Stakeholder Analysis
Conformance
LAG
Milestone Schedule
31. 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
Scope Baseline
Resource breakdown structure
Strong Matrix
Bottom-up Estimating
32. 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
Emphasis on defining scope
Status Reports
Start to Start
Charateristics of a project
33. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Referent Power
Bottom-up estimating
Project management and quality
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
34. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Finish to Start (Most common)
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Scope Statment
Progress Report
35. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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36. 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
Root cause analysis
Work around
Contraints
Mutual Exclusivity
37. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Level of Scope development
A lead
Expert Power
Referent Power
38. 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.
Make money and to protect the public
Visionary
Sample Testing
Implied warranty
39. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Work Authorization System
Concept of the Halo Theory
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Benchmarking
40. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Sample Testing
Start to Start
PMIS
Project Scope Statement
41. 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
Push Communications
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Work Package
Develop Project Team
42. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Brainstorming
Smoothing and withdrawal
Staffing Mgmt Plan
43. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Risk breakdown structure
Run Chart
Organization Breakdown Structure
FORMAL Communication
44. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Life-cycle costing
Hygiene factors
Develop Human Resource Plan
45. 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
Milestone Schedule
Work around
Plan Communication
46. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Emphasis on defining scope
Forcing
LAG
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
47. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Forcasting
Finish to Start (Most common)
Oganization breakdown structure
48. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Phase results are verified and documented
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Confronting/ Problem solving
People responsible for quality
49. 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
Compromising
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Run Chart
Risk Breakdown Structure
50. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mutual Exclusivity
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Impact
Project management and quality