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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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.






2. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






7. Communication formula






8. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






9. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. 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






14. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






15. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






16. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n






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






18. Difference between internal and external risk






19. Communication with peers






20. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






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






22. 3 main components of the communication model






23. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






24. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






25. 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






26. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






27. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






28. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






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






30. 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.






31. What is the number source of conflict?






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






33. 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.






34. 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






35. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






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






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






38. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






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






40. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






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






42. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






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






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






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






46. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






47. 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)






48. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






49. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






50. 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






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