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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Work Authorization System
Distribute Information
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Nonconformance
2. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Mgmt by Objectives
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Elements of scope
Business Risk
3. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Project Scope Statment
Level of Scope development
Cost of Quality
Coaching
4. 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
Communications requirement analysis
Scope Baseline
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Confronting/ Problem solving
5. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Penalty Power
Perks
Develop Project Charter
Verbal and Non-verbal
6. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk Register
Smoothing and withdrawal
Code of Accounts
7. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Finish to Start (Most common)
Formal Power
Project Selection
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
8. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
A Lag
Conformance
Stakeholder Analysis
9. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Organization Breakdown Structure
Plan Risk Mgmt
Push Communications
Expectancy Theory
10. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Director
Oganization breakdown structure
Forcasting
Controlling communication
11. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Contraints
External Contraints
12. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Finish to Start (Most common)
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Delphi Technique
Horizontal Comm
13. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Just-in-time (JIT)
Expert Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Horizontal Comm
14. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Autocratic
Organization Breakdown Structure
Scatter Diagram
Acquire Project Team
15. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Bill of materials
A lead
Expectancy Theory
Critical Path Method
16. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Project management and quality
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Contraints
17. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Elements of scope
Approved Change
Interactive Communication
Run Chart
18. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Bill of materials
Project Selection
Power/Influence Grid
Root cause analysis
19. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Resource leveling
Stakeholder Analysis
Scheduling
20. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Work Package
Hygiene factors
External Comm
Bill of materials
21. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Pure Risk
Critical Chain Method
Finish to Finish
Verbal and Non-verbal
22. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Critical Path Method
Gold Plating
Collaborating
Charismatic
23. 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
Level of Scope development
Elements of scope
Sigma
Contingency Reserves
24. 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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25. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Penalty Power
Brainstorming
Sigma
Critical Chain Method
26. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Hygiene factors
Total Quality Management TQM
Judgemental methods
Communications requirement analysis
27. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Project Selection
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Forcasting
28. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Judgemental methods
Just-in-time (JIT)
Free (or Total) float
Fast Tracking
29. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Critical Path Method
Judgemental methods
Cost plus percentage of cost
Design of Experiments
30. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
A Lag
Expectancy Theory
Root cause analysis
Facilitator
31. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Oganization breakdown structure
Run of Seven Rule
Change Control System
Unoffical Comm
32. Commuincation within the project
Resource leveling
Internal comm
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Judgemental methods
33. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Mgmt by Objectives
Pure Risk
Demings' 14 principles of Management
34. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Finish to Finish
6 sigma
Time series method
35. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Distribute Information
Emphasis on defining scope
Activity List
Conformance
36. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Implied warranty
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Report Performance
Concept of the Halo Theory
37. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Free (or Total) float
Run of Seven Rule
Bill of materials
38. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Change Control Board
The 100% Rule
Influence/Impact grid
Bottom-up Estimating
39. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Formal Power
Critical Path Method
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
40. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
ISO 3 Steps
Approved Change
Run Chart
41. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Scope Baseline
Scheduling
Manage Project Team
Cost of Quality
42. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Brainstorming
Commincations Mgmt plan
Nonconformance
43. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Scheduling
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Time series method
44. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Mgmt Reserves
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Critical Path Method
45. 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.
Finish to Finish
Commincations Mgmt plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Resource breakdown structure
46. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Plan Communication
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
47. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Work Package
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Develop Human Resource Plan
48. 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
Salience Model
Risk Register
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Pareto Diagram
49. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Organization Breakdown Structure
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Finish to Start (Most common)
Compromising
50. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Sample Testing
Work Package
3 Processes of quality managment
Just-in-time (JIT)