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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
External Comm
LAG
Smoothing/Accommodating
2. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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3. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Monte Carlo Technique
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Communications requirement analysis
4. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Scatter Diagram
Written or oral
Risk Owner
5. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Business Risk
Work Authorization System
Mediator
Root cause analysis
6. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Summary Schdule
The 100% Rule
7. 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
Cost plus percentage of cost
n *(n -1) /2
Stakeholder Analysis
8. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Bill of materials
External Contraints
Causal/econometric
FORMAL Communication
9. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Power/ Interest Grid
Time series method
Project management and quality
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
10. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Work Package
Project Selection
PMIS
Charismatic
11. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution
Acquire Project Team
Influence/Impact Grid
Forcing
Concept of the Halo Theory
12. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Time series method
Resource leveling
Visionary
13. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
RAM charts
Forcing
Summary Schdule
14. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Phase results are verified and documented
Breach
Facilitator
Status Reports
15. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Pure Risk
Plan Communication
Root cause analysis
Emphasis on defining scope
16. 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
Sample Testing
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Develop Project Charter
Collaborating
17. 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
Project management and quality
Forcing
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Pareto Diagram
18. 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
Summary Schdule
Change Control System
Interactive Communication
n *(n -1) /2
19. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Risk breakdown structure
Director
Work Package
Assumptions
20. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Delphi Technique
Project Scope Statment
21. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Work Authorization System
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Nonconformance
Referent Power
22. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Develop Human Resource Plan
Team development Life Cycle
Cost of Quality
Breach
23. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Gold Plating
Breach
Life-cycle costing
Progress Report
24. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Root cause analysis
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Develop Human Resource Plan
Emphasis on defining scope
25. Communication that is not on the record
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Unoffical Comm
Progress Report
Indentify Stakholders
26. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Push Communications
Offical
Summary Schdule
Impact
27. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Work Authorization System
Internal comm
28. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Distribute Information
Total Quality Management TQM
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Bottom-up Estimating
29. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
RAM charts
Design of Experiments
Push Communications
6 sigma
30. What is the number source of conflict?
Gold Plating
Finish to Finish
Controlling communication
Scheduling
31. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Mgmt Reserves
Reward Power
Forcasting
Confronting/ Problem solving
32. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Code of Accounts
Residual Risk
Bottom-up Estimating
33. 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
Closing the project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Expectancy Theory
Project Scope Statment
34. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Critical Chain Method
Team development Life Cycle
Pure Risk
Bill of materials
35. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
External Contraints
Push Communications
Report Performance
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
36. 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.
Design of Experiments
Critical Chain Method
Bill of materials
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
37. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Unoffical Comm
Indentify Risk
38. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Facilitator
n *(n -1) /2
39. 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.
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
External Contraints
Risk Breakdown Structure
Report Performance
40. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Business Risk
Delphi Technique
Cost of Quality
Residual Risk
41. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Indentify Risk
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Delphi Technique
Influence/Impact Grid
42. Shows the type of resources broken down
Vertical Comm
90%
Indentify Risk
Resource breakdown structure
43. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Compromising
External Comm
Push Communications
44. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Work around
Expert Power
Autocratic
Milestone list
45. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Written or oral
Penalty Power
Critical Chain Method
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
46. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Acquire Project Team
The 100% Rule
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Plan Communication
47. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Gold Plating
Project Slack
Salience Model
Brainstorming
48. 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
Compromising
Rolling Wave Planning
Offical
Work around
49. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Variance Analysis
Project Scope Statment
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Withdrawing/Avoiding
50. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Influence/Impact grid
90%
Finish to Finish
Communications requirement analysis