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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Expectancy Theory
2. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Written or oral
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Summary Schdule
3. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Scope Baseline
Level of Scope development
Time series method
Free (or Total) float
4. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Work Authorization System
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Judgemental methods
Project Slack
5. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Verbal and Non-verbal
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Breach
6. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
The 100% Rule
Horizontal Comm
Confronting/ Problem solving
Mutual Exclusivity
7. 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
Pareto Diagram
Bottom-up Estimating
Cost of Quality
Mgmt by Objectives
8. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Sample Testing
Develop Project Team
External Contraints
Risk Owner
9. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
3 Processes of quality managment
Autocratic
Confronting/ Problem solving
Charateristics of a project
10. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
External Comm
Bill of materials
Root cause analysis
11. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Power/Influence Grid
Resource breakdown structure
12. 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
Salience Model
Assumptions
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Influence/Impact Grid
13. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Salience Model
Interactive Communication
Controlling communication
Work Authorization System
14. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Power/ Interest Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Scatter Diagram
15. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Resource breakdown structure
Critical Path Method
Activity List
Fringe
16. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Start to Start
Written or oral
Commincations Mgmt plan
17. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Interactive Communication
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Risk Register
Risk Breakdown Structure
18. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Penalty Power
Statistical Independence
Withdrawing/Avoiding
19. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
PMIS
Statistical Independence
Cost plus percentage of cost
Power/ Interest Grid
20. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Bottom-up estimating
Scope Baseline
21. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Resource breakdown structure
Vertical Comm
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
22. 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)
Scheduling
LAG
Start to Finsh
Acquire Project Team
23. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Pure Risk
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Bottom-up estimating
Project Scope Statement
24. 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
Root cause analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Conformance
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
25. 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.
Visionary
Scope Baseline
Formal Power
Manage Project Team
26. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Internal comm
Requested Changes
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Pareto Diagram
27. 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
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Elements of scope
Controlling communication
28. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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29. 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
Resource leveling
Project Scope Statement
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
30. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Cost plus percentage of cost
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Hygiene factors
31. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Mediator
Residual Risk
External Comm
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
32. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Emphasis on defining scope
Collaborating
Expert Power
Push Communications
33. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Work around
RAM charts
Risk Register
Level of Scope development
34. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Delphi Technique
Elements of scope
Work Package
A lead
35. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Mediator
Milestone list
Offical
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
36. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Influence/Impact grid
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Project Scope Statment
37. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Risk Triggers
Coaching
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
38. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
n *(n -1) /2
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
39. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Statistical Independence
Manage Project Team
Formal Power
40. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Work around
Rolling Wave Planning
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
41. 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
Start to Start
Confronting/ Problem solving
Mgmt Reserves
Organization Breakdown Structure
42. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
PMIS
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Finish to Finish
ISO 3 Steps
43. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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44. 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.
Pareto Diagram
Crashing
Fast Tracking
Push Communications
45. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Critical Path Method
Time series method
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
46. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
RAM charts
Crashing
Report Performance
People responsible for quality
47. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Autocratic
Create WBS
Perks
48. 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
Change Control System
Approved Change
Benchmarking
RAM charts
49. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Code of Accounts
A lead
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Sample Testing
50. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Vertical Comm
Controlling communication
Develop Project Team
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)