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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






2. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






3. 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






4. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






5. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






7. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






8. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






9. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






10. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






11. 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.






12. 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)






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






14. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






15. 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






16. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






17. Communication with peers






18. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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)






22. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






23. 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






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






25. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






26. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






27. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






28. 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.






29. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project






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






31. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






32. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






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






34. A milestone has a ______duration






35. 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






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






37. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






38. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






39. 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.






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






44. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






45. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






46. 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.






47. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






48. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






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






50. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority