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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






3. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






4. 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






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






6. A milestone has a ______duration






7. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






8. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






9. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






10. Communication formula






11. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






12. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






13. 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






14. 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)






15. 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






16. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






17. 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






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






19. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






20. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






21. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






22. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






23. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






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






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






26. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






27. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






28. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






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






30. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






31. 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.






32. Delphi Technique Interviewing






33. 3 main components of the communication model






34. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






35. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.






36. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






37. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






38. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called






39. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






40. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






41. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






49. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






50. 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.