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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Communication formula






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






3. 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.






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






5. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






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






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






8. 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






9. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






13. 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






14. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






15. 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






16. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






17. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






18. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






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






20. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






21. 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






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






23. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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)






27. 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






28. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






29. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






30. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






31. 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






32. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






33. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






34. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






35. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






36. 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






37. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






42. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






43. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






44. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






45. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






46. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






47. Commuincation within the project






48. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






49. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






50. 3 main components of the communication model