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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






2. 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.






3. 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






4. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






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






6. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






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






8. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






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






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






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






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






13. 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)






14. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






15. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






16. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






17. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






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






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






20. 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)






21. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






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






23. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






36. Shows the type of resources broken down






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






38. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






39. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






40. What is the number source of conflict?






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






42. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






43. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






44. Communication that is not on the record






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






46. 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






47. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






48. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






49. 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






50. 3 main components of the communication model