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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
ISO 3 Steps
Change Control Board
External Comm
2. 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
Smoothing and withdrawal
Bill of materials
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
3. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Gold Plating
A Lag
Start to Start
Reward Power
4. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Project Slack
Milestone list
Contraints
Resource leveling
5. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Risk breakdown structure
Variance Analysis
Work around
6. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Organization Breakdown Structure
Influence/Impact grid
Free (or Total) float
Risk Breakdown Structure
7. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Project Slack
Monte Carlo Technique
Root cause analysis
Vertical Comm
8. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Root cause analysis
Create WBS
9. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Brainstorming
Develop Project Charter
10. Commuincation within the project
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Total Quality Management TQM
Internal comm
11. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Risk Triggers
Work Package
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Communications requirement analysis
12. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Assumptions
Power/ Interest Grid
Verbal and Non-verbal
Expectancy Theory
13. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Power/Influence Grid
Project Slack
Mgmt by Objectives
Delphi Technique
14. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Breach
Finish to Start (Most common)
Level of Scope development
Bottom-up Estimating
15. 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
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Risk Breakdown Structure
16. 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
Pareto Diagram
Impact
Vertical Comm
Change Control Board
17. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Root cause analysis
Project Selection
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
People responsible for quality
18. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
Approved Change
Rolling Wave Planning
Commincations Mgmt plan
Stakeholder Analysis
19. 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)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Milestone list
Salience Model
20. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
Push Communications
Life-cycle costing
Crashing
21. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Collaborating
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Risk breakdown structure
Work Authorization System
22. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Manage Project Team
Sigma
Smoothing/Accommodating
Project Scope Statement
23. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Work Authorization System
Team development Life Cycle
Risk Breakdown Structure
24. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Gold Plating
3 Processes of quality managment
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Create WBS
25. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Scheduling
Status Reports
Risk Register
Salience Model
26. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Organization Breakdown Structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
Risk breakdown structure
Collaborating
27. A milestone has a ______duration
Phase results are verified and documented
Zero duration
Director
Controlling communication
28. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Work around
Milestone list
Project Selection
Finish to Finish
29. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Sample Testing
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Elements of scope
30. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
n *(n -1) /2
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Business Risk
Push Communications
31. 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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32. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Variance Analysis
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Scope Baseline
Sigma
33. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Coaching
Formal Power
Work Authorization System
34. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
The 100% Rule
Activity List
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
35. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
FORMAL Communication
Mgmt Reserves
Organization Breakdown Structure
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
36. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Smoothing and withdrawal
Facilitator
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
37. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Strong Matrix
Assumptions
Risk breakdown structure
38. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Work around
Written or oral
Business Risk
39. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Rolling Wave Planning
Cost plus percentage of cost
Bottom-up estimating
40. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Formal Power
Salience Model
6 sigma
Judgemental methods
41. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Resource leveling
Critical Chain Method
42. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Emphasis on defining scope
Resource breakdown structure
Run of Seven Rule
Plan Risk Mgmt
43. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Brainstorming
90%
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Cost plus percentage of cost
44. 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.
Cost plus percentage of cost
Delphi Technique
Stakeholder Analysis
Design of Experiments
45. 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
Hygiene factors
Summary Schdule
Charateristics of a project
Milestone Schedule
46. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
FORMAL Communication
Change Control Board
Rolling Wave Planning
Judgemental methods
47. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Bottom-up Estimating
Expectancy Theory
Resource leveling
Phase results are verified and documented
48. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Level of Scope development
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Summary Schdule
Finish to Finish
49. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Risk breakdown structure
Nonconformance
Just-in-time (JIT)
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
50. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
External Contraints
Crashing
Mediator
Develop Human Resource Plan