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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil






2. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






4. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






5. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






6. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






7. 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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






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






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






17. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






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






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






20. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






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






22. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






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






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






25. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






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






27. Difference between internal and external risk






28. 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






29. 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)






30. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






36. 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






37. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






38. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






39. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






40. 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






41. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






42. 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






43. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






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