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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Scheduling
Implied warranty
Risk Breakdown Structure
Closing the project
2. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Scatter Diagram
Resource leveling
Strong Matrix
Progress Report
3. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Level of Scope development
Fringe
Judgemental methods
Confronting/ Problem solving
4. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Pure Risk
Rolling Wave Planning
Crashing
Coaching
5. 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
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Develop Project Charter
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Scope Statment
6. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Resource leveling
Business Risk
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
7. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Start to Finsh
Run Chart
Risk Owner
8. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Contraints
Breach
Milestone Schedule
Acquire Project Team
9. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Develop Human Resource Plan
Project Scope Statment
Plan Communication
10. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Bottom-up estimating
Perks
Horizontal Comm
11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Breach
Total Quality Management TQM
Finish to Start (Most common)
Project management and quality
12. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
n *(n -1) /2
Penalty Power
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
The 100% Rule
13. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Formal Power
Life-cycle costing
Develop Project Team
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
14. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Just-in-time (JIT)
Code of Accounts
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Work Authorization System
15. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Risk Triggers
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Sample Testing
16. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Phase results are verified and documented
Mgmt Reserves
17. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Formal Power
Variance Analysis
Finish to Start (Most common)
Pareto Diagram
18. What is the output of Identify Risk?
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Risk Register
Crashing
Scatter Diagram
19. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Hygiene factors
Concept of the Halo Theory
Nonconformance
Visionary
20. 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.
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Create WBS
Risk Breakdown Structure
Penalty Power
21. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Requested Changes
Pure Risk
Autocratic
Impact
22. Shows the type of resources broken down
Finish to Start (Most common)
Scope Baseline
Work Authorization System
Resource breakdown structure
23. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Referent Power
90%
Run Chart
Variance Analysis
24. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Report Performance
Zero duration
25. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Charateristics of a project
Summary Schdule
Milestone list
Sigma
26. Communication in writing or oral
Charismatic
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Written or oral
External Comm
27. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Salience Model
Implied warranty
28. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Written or oral
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Brainstorming
29. 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.
Smoothing/Accommodating
Run Chart
Benchmarking
Commincations Mgmt plan
30. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
LAG
Power/ Interest Grid
Project Scope Statement
Run of Seven Rule
31. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
LAG
Plan Communication
Develop Project Team
32. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Strong Matrix
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Conformance
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
33. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Develop Project Charter
6 sigma
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
34. Difference between internal and external risk
Level of Scope development
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Implied warranty
Work Package
35. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
ISO 3 Steps
Push Communications
Verbal and Non-verbal
36. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Expert Power
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Smoothing and withdrawal
Start to Start
37. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Brainstorming
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
38. 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
Pareto Diagram
FORMAL Communication
Finish to Finish
Forcasting
39. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Manage Project Team
Forcasting
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Commincations Mgmt plan
40. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Causal/econometric
Risk Register
Power/Influence Grid
Controlling communication
41. 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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42. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Sigma
Compromising
Autocratic
43. Communication up and down the organization
Pure Risk
Vertical Comm
Stakeholder Analysis
Milestone Schedule
44. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Confronting/ Problem solving
Charateristics of a project
Commincations Mgmt plan
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
45. 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.
Activity List
Influence/Impact grid
Compromising
3 Processes of quality managment
46. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Written or oral
Variance Analysis
Finish to Start (Most common)
Code of Accounts
47. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Critical Path Method
Requested Changes
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
48. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Work Authorization System
The 100% Rule
Change Control Board
49. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure
Statistical Independence
Contingency Reserves
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Perks
50. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
LAG
External Comm
Elements of scope
The 100% Rule