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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the number source of conflict?






2. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






3. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






4. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






5. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






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






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






8. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






9. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






11. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






12. 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)






13. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






14. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






15. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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16. 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






17. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






18. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






19. 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






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






21. 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)






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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






25. Shows the type of resources broken down






26. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






27. Commuincation within the project






28. 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






29. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






30. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






31. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






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






33. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated






34. 3 main components of the communication model






35. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






36. Communication that is not on the record






37. Communication up and down the organization






38. 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.






39. 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






40. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






41. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






42. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






43. 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






44. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur






45. 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)






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






47. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






48. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






49. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






50. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy