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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Business Risk
Influence/Impact grid
Statistical Independence
People responsible for quality
2. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
External Contraints
Report Performance
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Activity List
3. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Bill of materials
Indentify Risk
Salience Model
4. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Life-cycle costing
Resource leveling
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
5. 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
Work Authorization System
LAG
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Project Scope Statment
6. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Mediator
3 Processes of quality managment
Phase results are verified and documented
Indentify Stakholders
7. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Closing the project
8. 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
FORMAL Communication
Penalty Power
Vertical Comm
Interactive Communication
9. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contraints
Contingency Reserves
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Plan Risk Mgmt
10. 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.
Commincations Mgmt plan
Run Chart
Finish to Finish
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
11. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Design of Experiments
Progress Report
Root cause analysis
Brainstorming
12. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Project Slack
Autocratic
Contingency Reserves
13. 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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14. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Time series method
Expectancy Theory
Change Control System
FORMAL Communication
15. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Sample Testing
Work Package
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
16. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Salience Model
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Run of Seven Rule
Impact
17. 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
Vertical Comm
Contraints
Bottom-up Estimating
Run Chart
18. 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)
Design of Experiments
ISO 3 Steps
Communications requirement analysis
19. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
FORMAL Communication
Work Authorization System
Activity List
Gold Plating
20. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
External Contraints
RAM charts
Progress Report
ISO 3 Steps
21. 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)
Finish to Start (Most common)
Critical Path Method
Risk breakdown structure
Make money and to protect the public
22. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Conformance
Progress Report
Contingency Reserves
Phase results are verified and documented
23. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Indentify Stakholders
Work Package
Change Control System
Formal Power
24. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Residual Risk
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Expert Power
25. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Hygiene factors
Influence/Impact Grid
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
26. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Create WBS
Power/Influence Grid
Resource breakdown structure
27. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Gold Plating
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Start to Finsh
Autocratic
28. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Emphasis on defining scope
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Total Quality Management TQM
Root cause analysis
29. 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
Approved Change
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Expert Power
Coaching
30. 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
RAM charts
Assumptions
Plan Risk Mgmt
31. Communication formula
Cost plus percentage of cost
Project Selection
n *(n -1) /2
Facilitator
32. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Start to Start
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Conformance
Risk Register
33. 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
Milestone Schedule
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Milestone list
34. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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35. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Total Quality Management TQM
Brainstorming
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Nonconformance
36. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Report Performance
Forcasting
Fast Tracking
Controlling communication
37. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Resource leveling
Zero duration
Project management and quality
6 sigma
38. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Work around
External Comm
Bill of materials
Causal/econometric
39. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Work Authorization System
Summary Schdule
Influence/Impact grid
40. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Pure Risk
Project Selection
Project Scope Statment
A lead
41. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Project Scope Statment
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Life-cycle costing
Resource leveling
42. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Horizontal Comm
People responsible for quality
A Lag
Penalty Power
43. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Risk breakdown structure
RAM charts
Salience Model
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
44. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Salience Model
Penalty Power
Salience Model
45. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Business Risk
LAG
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
46. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
FORMAL Communication
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Mgmt by Objectives
Delphi Technique
47. 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
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Phase results are verified and documented
Develop Project Charter
Contraints
48. 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
Visionary
External Contraints
Director
Push Communications
49. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Smoothing and withdrawal
Contraints
Influence/Impact grid
50. 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
Design of Experiments
Organization Breakdown Structure
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Project Scope Statement