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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






2. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






3. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






4. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






5. 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






6. Delphi Technique Interviewing






7. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






8. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






9. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






10. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






11. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






12. 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






13. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






14. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






15. 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.






16. Communication in writing or oral






17. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






18. 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






19. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






20. 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






21. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






22. Communication formula






23. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






24. 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






25. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






26. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






27. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






28. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






29. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






30. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






31. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






32. 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






33. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






34. Commuincation within the project






35. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






36. 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.






37. 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






38. 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






39. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






40. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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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44. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






45. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






46. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






47. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






48. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






49. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






50. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse