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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Autocratic
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
2. 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
Pull Communication
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Resource leveling
Root cause analysis
3. Difference between internal and external risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Interactive Communication
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
4. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Distribute Information
Offical
Pull Communication
Coaching
5. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Commincations Mgmt plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Mgmt Reserves
Visionary
6. 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.
Work Package
Assumptions
Pareto Diagram
Critical Path Method
7. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Hygiene factors
Project Slack
Reward Power
Smoothing/Accommodating
8. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Expectancy Theory
Salience Model
Requested Changes
Project Slack
9. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Make money and to protect the public
Director
Offical
Contingency Reserves
10. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Root cause analysis
Work Authorization System
Judgemental methods
11. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Indentify Stakholders
Project Scope Statement
Sigma
Strong Matrix
12. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Risk Owner
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Emphasis on defining scope
Charismatic
13. 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
Communications requirement analysis
90%
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
14. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Finish to Start (Most common)
Delphi Technique
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
A Lag
15. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Vertical Comm
A Lag
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Indentify Stakholders
16. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Run of Seven Rule
Collaborating
Strong Matrix
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
17. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Business Risk
Risk Register
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Project Selection
18. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Smoothing/Accommodating
Communications requirement analysis
Benchmarking
Risk Breakdown Structure
19. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Manage Project Team
Risk Triggers
20. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
Acquire Project Team
FORMAL Communication
Mediator
21. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Bottom-up estimating
Controlling communication
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Milestone list
22. 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
Brainstorming
Risk Owner
Emphasis on defining scope
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
23. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Delphi Technique
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
24. What is the number source of conflict?
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
6 sigma
Business Risk
Scheduling
25. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Scatter Diagram
Risk Register
Cost of Quality
26. 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
Coaching
Penalty Power
Scheduling
Risk Triggers
27. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Approved Change
Pull Communication
Benchmarking
28. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Stakeholder Analysis
Indentify Risk
Expert Power
29. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Risk Owner
Change Control System
Emphasis on defining scope
Brainstorming
30. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Salience Model
Finish to Finish
Fast Tracking
Sigma
31. Communication up and down the organization
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Forcing
Vertical Comm
Contraints
32. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Oganization breakdown structure
A lead
Risk Breakdown Structure
Unoffical Comm
33. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Horizontal Comm
Mgmt by Objectives
Scatter Diagram
Commincations Mgmt plan
34. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Design of Experiments
Facilitator
Formal Power
Concept of the Halo Theory
35. 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.
Secondary Risk
Resource breakdown structure
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
36. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Written or oral
6 sigma
Assumptions
37. 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
Delphi Technique
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Project Selection
Rolling Wave Planning
38. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Plan Communication
Smoothing/Accommodating
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
39. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Team development Life Cycle
Reward Power
Gold Plating
Charismatic
40. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Variance Analysis
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
RAM charts
Visionary
41. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Milestone Schedule
Smoothing and withdrawal
Status Reports
RAM charts
42. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Work Authorization System
Fringe
Acquire Project Team
Change Control System
43. A milestone has a ______duration
Project management and quality
Zero duration
Project Scope Statment
Phase results are verified and documented
44. 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
Conformance
Offical
Gold Plating
Project Scope Statment
45. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Progress Report
People responsible for quality
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Plan Communication
46. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Residual Risk
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
47. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Acquire Project Team
Delphi Technique
Stakeholder Analysis
Mediator
48. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Finish to Start (Most common)
Rolling Wave Planning
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Stakeholder Analysis
49. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Summary Schdule
Develop Human Resource Plan
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Run of Seven Rule
50. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Free (or Total) float
Influence/Impact Grid
Conformance
Finish to Start (Most common)