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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.






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






3. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






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






5. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






6. 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






7. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






8. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






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






10. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






11. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






12. 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






13. What is the number source of conflict?






14. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






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






16. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






17. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






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






19. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






20. Communication formula






21. Communication that is not on the record






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






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






24. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






25. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






26. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






27. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






28. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






29. 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.






30. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






31. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






32. 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.






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






34. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






36. 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






37. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






38. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






39. 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






40. 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






41. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






42. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






43. 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.






44. 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






45. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






46. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






47. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






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






49. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






50. Communication with peers