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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Formal Power
Strong Matrix
Run of Seven Rule
2. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Resource leveling
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Delphi Technique
Milestone list
3. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Mediator
Project Slack
4. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Develop Human Resource Plan
Closing the project
Influence/Impact Grid
Project Slack
5. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
Finish to Start (Most common)
Milestone Schedule
Written or oral
6. 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
Project Slack
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Critical Path Method
Controlling communication
7. 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
Risk Owner
Elements of scope
Free (or Total) float
Plan Risk Mgmt
8. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Autocratic
Make money and to protect the public
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Verbal and Non-verbal
9. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Business Risk
Risk Triggers
Resource breakdown structure
Verbal and Non-verbal
10. 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
Compromising
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Contraints
Cost of Quality
11. 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
Scheduling
Business Risk
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Work around
12. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
RAM charts
Work Package
Risk Owner
Activity List
13. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Power/ Interest Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Implied warranty
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
14. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Assumptions
Phase results are verified and documented
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Forcasting
15. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Concept of the Halo Theory
Project Selection
Pareto Diagram
16. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Change Control Board
Root cause analysis
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Project Scope Statement
17. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Fringe
Power/ Interest Grid
Run Chart
18. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Influence/Impact Grid
Team development Life Cycle
Implied warranty
Director
19. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
A Lag
Business Risk
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
20. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Status Reports
Implied warranty
Project Scope Statment
Conformance
21. 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
Sigma
Approved Change
Run of Seven Rule
Smoothing/Accommodating
22. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Risk Owner
Resource breakdown structure
FORMAL Communication
Level of Scope development
23. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Scope Statment
Referent Power
Root cause analysis
24. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Smoothing/Accommodating
Causal/econometric
Project Scope Statement
25. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Salience Model
Controlling communication
Manage Project Team
26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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27. 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
6 sigma
Bottom-up Estimating
Monte Carlo Technique
Approved Change
28. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Autocratic
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Oganization breakdown structure
29. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Facilitator
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Gold Plating
The 100% Rule
30. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Resource breakdown structure
Gold Plating
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Pure Risk
31. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
32. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Offical
Summary Schdule
33. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Conformance
Reward Power
Free (or Total) float
Strong Matrix
34. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Time series method
Nonconformance
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Benchmarking
35. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Mgmt by Objectives
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Commincations Mgmt plan
Resource breakdown structure
36. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
LAG
Concept of the Halo Theory
Finish to Finish
Risk Owner
37. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Pure Risk
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Gold Plating
38. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
FORMAL Communication
Influence/Impact grid
Impact
39. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Requested Changes
Scatter Diagram
Indentify Stakholders
Mgmt Reserves
40. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Work Authorization System
Resource leveling
Cost plus percentage of cost
41. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Contraints
Gold Plating
Delphi Technique
42. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Nonconformance
Pure Risk
Critical Path Method
Residual Risk
43. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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44. 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
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Fast Tracking
Project Scope Statment
45. 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
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Change Control System
Critical Path Method
Mediator
46. Communication that is not on the record
Unoffical Comm
Fast Tracking
Start to Start
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
47. 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)
Team development Life Cycle
Visionary
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
48. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Approved Change
Scheduling
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Work around
49. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Change Control Board
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Referent Power
3 Processes of quality managment
50. 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
Pure Risk
Stakeholder Analysis
RAM charts
Risk breakdown structure