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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Design of Experiments
Resource breakdown structure
Judgemental methods
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
2. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Judgemental methods
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Finish to Finish
3. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Crashing
Bill of materials
Influence/Impact grid
Summary Schdule
4. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
5. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Resource breakdown structure
Make money and to protect the public
Activity List
6. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Mediator
Nonconformance
The 100% Rule
Fringe
7. 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
Mediator
Horizontal Comm
Just-in-time (JIT)
Judgemental methods
8. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Run Chart
Milestone Schedule
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Project management and quality
9. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Phase results are verified and documented
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Formal Power
Scheduling
10. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Risk Register
Interactive Communication
Contingency Reserves
11. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
RAM charts
Delphi Technique
ISO 3 Steps
12. 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)
Scope Baseline
Time series method
Free (or Total) float
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
13. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Phase results are verified and documented
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Implied warranty
PMIS
14. 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
Nonconformance
Work Package
Fringe
15. 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)
LAG
Risk Triggers
Assumptions
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
16. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Assumptions
Power/Influence Grid
17. 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.
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Commincations Mgmt plan
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Scope Baseline
18. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Fast Tracking
Hygiene factors
Impact
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
19. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Expert Power
Risk Triggers
Residual Risk
Project Slack
20. 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
Work Package
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Confronting/ Problem solving
Team development Life Cycle
21. 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
22. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Salience Model
Free (or Total) float
Variance Analysis
23. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Sigma
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Offical
Status Reports
24. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Smoothing/Accommodating
Team development Life Cycle
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Business Risk
25. 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.
Concept of the Halo Theory
Scope Baseline
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Smoothing/Accommodating
26. 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
Critical Chain Method
Emphasis on defining scope
Compromising
Demings' 14 principles of Management
27. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Judgemental methods
Formal Power
Gold Plating
Coaching
28. 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.
Resource breakdown structure
Rolling Wave Planning
Design of Experiments
Controlling communication
29. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Offical
Critical Chain Method
Forcasting
Delphi Technique
30. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Code of Accounts
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Develop Human Resource Plan
Change Control Board
31. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Risk Triggers
Requested Changes
People responsible for quality
Cost plus percentage of cost
32. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Project Selection
Pull Communication
Finish to Start (Most common)
Collaborating
33. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Level of Scope development
Indentify Stakholders
34. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Scatter Diagram
Assumptions
Penalty Power
Life-cycle costing
35. 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
Smoothing/Accommodating
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Summary Schdule
36. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Status Reports
Organization Breakdown Structure
Perks
Autocratic
37. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Fast Tracking
Work Authorization System
38. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Brainstorming
Contingency Reserves
Risk Owner
Controlling communication
39. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Indentify Stakholders
Life-cycle costing
Compromising
Sigma
40. 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.
Pure Risk
Risk Triggers
Visionary
Gold Plating
41. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Summary Schdule
Hygiene factors
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
42. 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
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Statistical Independence
Bottom-up Estimating
Autocratic
43. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Sigma
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Phase results are verified and documented
Free (or Total) float
44. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
LAG
Contingency Reserves
Sigma
45. One choice does not include any other choices
Critical Chain Method
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mutual Exclusivity
Mgmt Reserves
46. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Approved Change
Secondary Risk
Bottom-up estimating
Project Scope Statment
47. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Autocratic
Contraints
The 100% Rule
External Comm
48. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
49. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Project Scope Statment
Oganization breakdown structure
Bill of materials
Start to Finsh
50. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Code of Accounts
Start to Start
Pull Communication
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)