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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Gold Plating
Work Authorization System
Penalty Power
Activity List
2. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Influence/Impact grid
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Variance Analysis
3. 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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4. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Smoothing and withdrawal
Facilitator
Vertical Comm
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
5. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Expectancy Theory
3 Processes of quality managment
Develop Project Charter
Just-in-time (JIT)
6. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Summary Schdule
Smoothing and withdrawal
Pull Communication
Work Package
7. 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
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Conformance
Contraints
Develop Project Charter
8. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Impact
Influence/Impact Grid
Confronting/ Problem solving
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
9. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Summary Schdule
Mgmt Reserves
Variance Analysis
Project management and quality
10. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Director
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Concept of the Halo Theory
11. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Scope Baseline
Contingency Reserves
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Formal Power
12. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
n *(n -1) /2
Monte Carlo Technique
Power/ Interest Grid
LAG
13. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Work Authorization System
Smoothing/Accommodating
Impact
Time series method
14. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Controlling communication
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Mgmt Reserves
15. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Breach
Smoothing and withdrawal
Develop Project Team
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
16. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Brainstorming
Organization Breakdown Structure
Crashing
Strong Matrix
17. Difference between internal and external risk
Benchmarking
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Status Reports
Analogous or Top down Estimating
18. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Milestone list
Fast Tracking
Run Chart
19. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Contraints
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Smoothing/Accommodating
20. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
Scatter Diagram
Resource breakdown structure
Plan Communication
21. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Fast Tracking
Design of Experiments
Sigma
Run of Seven Rule
22. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Power/Influence Grid
Nonconformance
Work Package
23. 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
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Make money and to protect the public
Breach
24. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
FORMAL Communication
Business Risk
Pure Risk
Work around
25. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Brainstorming
Forcing
Expert Power
Penalty Power
26. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Root cause analysis
Reward Power
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Salience Model
27. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Business Risk
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
28. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Oganization breakdown structure
Communications requirement analysis
Gold Plating
29. 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
Nonconformance
Organization Breakdown Structure
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Contraints
30. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Mgmt by Objectives
Crashing
Develop Project Team
Monte Carlo Technique
31. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Brainstorming
n *(n -1) /2
Indentify Risk
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
32. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Fringe
Monte Carlo Technique
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Create WBS
33. 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.
Work Authorization System
Influence/Impact grid
Work Package
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
34. 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.
Risk breakdown structure
Design of Experiments
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Perks
35. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Requested Changes
Finish to Start (Most common)
Change Control System
36. 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
Interactive Communication
Power/Influence Grid
Critical Chain Method
Conformance
37. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Nonconformance
Forcing
38. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Rolling Wave Planning
Phase results are verified and documented
Smoothing/Accommodating
Work Package
39. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Charismatic
Implied warranty
ISO 3 Steps
Coaching
40. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Stakeholder Analysis
Hygiene factors
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Mgmt Reserves
41. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Closing the project
Cost of Quality
Pure Risk
42. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
The 100% Rule
Acquire Project Team
Risk Owner
43. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Mutual Exclusivity
44. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Commincations Mgmt plan
Coaching
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
A Lag
45. 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
Salience Model
Work Package
Power/ Interest Grid
Mgmt by Objectives
46. 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
Confronting/ Problem solving
Work Authorization System
Mediator
Zero duration
47. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Contingency Reserves
Life-cycle costing
Pure Risk
PMIS
48. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Vertical Comm
Offical
Risk Register
Start to Finsh
49. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Free (or Total) float
Charismatic
Communications requirement analysis
Scheduling
50. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Bottom-up Estimating
Expert Power
Resource leveling
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)