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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Change Control System
Pull Communication
FORMAL Communication
Design of Experiments
2. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Scatter Diagram
FORMAL Communication
Total Quality Management TQM
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
3. 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)
Free (or Total) float
Forcing
Rolling Wave Planning
Critical Path Method
4. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Delphi Technique
Project Slack
Forcing
Offical
5. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Rolling Wave Planning
Code of Accounts
Penalty Power
Analogous or Top down Estimating
6. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Reward Power
Penalty Power
Breach
Risk Breakdown Structure
7. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project
Fast Tracking
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Coaching
Risk Breakdown Structure
8. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Pareto Diagram
Secondary Risk
Distribute Information
3 Processes of quality managment
9. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Expectancy Theory
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Secondary Risk
10. 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.
Variance Analysis
Sigma
Risk Breakdown Structure
Progress Report
11. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Critical Chain Method
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
12. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Approved Change
Milestone Schedule
90%
Internal comm
13. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Charismatic
Collaborating
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
n *(n -1) /2
14. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Resource breakdown structure
Total Quality Management TQM
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
15. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Smoothing and withdrawal
Communications requirement analysis
Resource leveling
16. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
A lead
Plan Risk Mgmt
Change Control Board
Project Scope Statement
17. 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
Written or oral
Risk Triggers
Approved Change
External Contraints
18. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Scope Baseline
Horizontal Comm
PMIS
Progress Report
19. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Impact
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Breach
A lead
20. 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.
90%
Fast Tracking
Scatter Diagram
Reward Power
21. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Root cause analysis
Change Control Board
Charateristics of a project
Secondary Risk
22. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Influence/Impact Grid
Change Control System
Closing the project
Zero duration
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
ISO 3 Steps
Scope Baseline
Run of Seven Rule
Mgmt by Objectives
24. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Benchmarking
Root cause analysis
Secondary Risk
25. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Power/ Interest Grid
Bottom-up estimating
Variance Analysis
26. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Power/Influence Grid
Make money and to protect the public
Compromising
Gold Plating
27. 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
Project Scope Statment
Root cause analysis
Monte Carlo Technique
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
28. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Project Selection
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Director
Distribute Information
29. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Resource leveling
Report Performance
A Lag
30. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Scope Baseline
Milestone Schedule
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
31. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Work Package
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Charateristics of a project
32. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Interactive Communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Indentify Stakholders
33. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Distribute Information
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Brainstorming
Plan Communication
34. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Gold Plating
Acquire Project Team
Expert Power
Influence/Impact grid
35. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Indentify Risk
Run Chart
Resource breakdown structure
Start to Start
36. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Staffing Mgmt Plan
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Contraints
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
37. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Pure Risk
Project Selection
Change Control Board
Sigma
38. 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
Confronting/ Problem solving
Push Communications
Sigma
Just-in-time (JIT)
39. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Zero duration
Secondary Risk
Coaching
Requested Changes
40. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Mgmt Reserves
Develop Project Team
A Lag
Strong Matrix
41. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Finish to Finish
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project management and quality
Analogous or Top down Estimating
42. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Interactive Communication
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
6 sigma
43. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Judgemental methods
Start to Start
Phase results are verified and documented
44. 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
Acquire Project Team
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Work around
A lead
45. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Root cause analysis
Strong Matrix
Project Scope Statment
46. 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
Horizontal Comm
Mgmt by Objectives
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Contraints
47. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
External Contraints
3 Processes of quality managment
Forcing
48. 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
Delphi Technique
Resource breakdown structure
Create WBS
Statistical Independence
49. 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
Salience Model
Elements of scope
Project management and quality
Visionary
50. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Smoothing/Accommodating
Approved Change
People responsible for quality