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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Plan Communication
Power/Influence Grid
Cost plus percentage of cost
Perks
2. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Visionary
Power/ Interest Grid
Develop Human Resource Plan
3. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Horizontal Comm
Assumptions
Make money and to protect the public
External Comm
4. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Critical Chain Method
Create WBS
PMIS
Requested Changes
5. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Cost of Quality
Mgmt Reserves
Forcing
Pull Communication
6. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
ISO 3 Steps
Indentify Risk
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
7. One choice does not include any other choices
Plan Risk Mgmt
Verbal and Non-verbal
Mutual Exclusivity
Causal/econometric
8. 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
People responsible for quality
Compromising
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Rolling Wave Planning
9. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Smoothing/Accommodating
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Project Scope Statement
Delphi Technique
10. 3 main components of the communication model
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Expert Power
Free (or Total) float
Project Selection
11. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Pull Communication
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Influence/Impact Grid
Strong Matrix
12. Communication up and down the organization
Statistical Independence
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Vertical Comm
Make money and to protect the public
13. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Total Quality Management TQM
Conformance
Implied warranty
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
14. 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)
Influence/Impact Grid
Design of Experiments
LAG
Code of Accounts
15. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Demings' 14 principles of Management
A lead
Pull Communication
Run of Seven Rule
16. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Risk Triggers
Collaborating
Coaching
Mediator
17. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Push Communications
Internal comm
Scatter Diagram
Develop Project Charter
18. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Written or oral
External Contraints
Manage Project Team
RAM charts
19. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Influence/Impact grid
Design of Experiments
20. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Milestone list
Level of Scope development
Internal comm
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
21. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Resource leveling
Written or oral
Run of Seven Rule
22. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
PMIS
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
23. 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
Business Risk
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Milestone Schedule
Requested Changes
24. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Cost plus percentage of cost
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Project Slack
25. 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
Benchmarking
Approved Change
Start to Finsh
Contraints
26. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
Perks
Plan Risk Mgmt
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
27. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Distribute Information
LAG
Bill of materials
Compromising
28. 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.
Requested Changes
Indentify Stakholders
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Visionary
29. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.
Brainstorming
Mgmt Reserves
Conformance
Plan Communication
30. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Business Risk
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Nonconformance
Change Control Board
31. 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
Project Scope Statment
Mediator
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Formal Power
32. 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.
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Influence/Impact grid
Change Control Board
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
33. A milestone has a ______duration
6 sigma
Scheduling
Commincations Mgmt plan
Zero duration
34. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Make money and to protect the public
Commincations Mgmt plan
Judgemental methods
35. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Design of Experiments
Develop Project Team
36. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
External Contraints
Risk Owner
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Expectancy Theory
37. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Owner
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
38. 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.
Charateristics of a project
Milestone Schedule
Commincations Mgmt plan
n *(n -1) /2
39. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Project Scope Statement
Horizontal Comm
Nonconformance
40. 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
Controlling communication
Forcasting
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Project Scope Statment
41. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Project Scope Statment
3 Processes of quality managment
Indentify Risk
Autocratic
42. Communication with peers
Create WBS
Sample Testing
Horizontal Comm
Resource leveling
43. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Perks
Nonconformance
Critical Path Method
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
44. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Offical
Power/ Interest Grid
Distribute Information
Gold Plating
45. 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
Mgmt by Objectives
Develop Project Charter
Risk Owner
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
46. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Cost of Quality
Risk Triggers
Critical Chain Method
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
47. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Influence/Impact Grid
Power/ Interest Grid
Offical
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
48. 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
A Lag
Coaching
Variance Analysis
Reward Power
49. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Controlling communication
Cost plus percentage of cost
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
50. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Risk Owner
Gold Plating
Fringe
Make money and to protect the public
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