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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Time series method
Secondary Risk
PMIS
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
2. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Salience Model
Pull Communication
Sample Testing
3. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Team development Life Cycle
Strong Matrix
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Mgmt by Objectives
4. 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
Horizontal Comm
Brainstorming
Rolling Wave Planning
Elements of scope
5. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Risk Breakdown Structure
Zero duration
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Status Reports
6. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
People responsible for quality
Breach
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Gold Plating
7. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Fringe
Project Scope Statement
Zero duration
Conformance
8. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Time series method
Develop Project Charter
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
9. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Activity List
Report Performance
Requested Changes
Project Scope Statement
10. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Total Quality Management TQM
Demings' 14 principles of Management
11. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
PMIS
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Distribute Information
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
12. 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
Cost plus percentage of cost
Rolling Wave Planning
Progress Report
Requested Changes
13. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Approved Change
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Horizontal Comm
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
14. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Influence/Impact Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Power/Influence Grid
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
15. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Design of Experiments
Develop Human Resource Plan
6 sigma
Emphasis on defining scope
16. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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17. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Salience Model
Sample Testing
Life-cycle costing
Level of Scope development
18. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
A lead
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Work Authorization System
19. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Mediator
Rolling Wave Planning
Power/ Interest Grid
Work Package
20. 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
Scatter Diagram
Smoothing/Accommodating
Internal comm
Coaching
21. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.
Plan Communication
Autocratic
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Confronting/ Problem solving
22. 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.
Formal Power
Forcing
Contraints
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
23. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
RAM charts
Run Chart
6 sigma
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
24. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Mediator
Charateristics of a project
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Change Control Board
25. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Organization Breakdown Structure
Team development Life Cycle
Influence/Impact Grid
External Comm
26. 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
Facilitator
Contraints
Forcasting
RAM charts
27. 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
Reward Power
Project Scope Statment
Root cause analysis
Risk Owner
28. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
Forcasting
Mgmt by Objectives
Root cause analysis
29. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Plan Risk Mgmt
Risk Breakdown Structure
External Contraints
30. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Oganization breakdown structure
External Contraints
Nonconformance
31. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Expectancy Theory
Unoffical Comm
Develop Project Team
Level of Scope development
32. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Monte Carlo Technique
Rolling Wave Planning
Total Quality Management TQM
33. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Variance Analysis
Risk Register
Bill of materials
34. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Collaborating
Secondary Risk
Pareto Diagram
A Lag
35. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Closing the project
Work Authorization System
RAM charts
3 Processes of quality managment
36. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Autocratic
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Concept of the Halo Theory
Influence/Impact grid
37. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
The 100% Rule
Team development Life Cycle
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
38. 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
Director
Smoothing/Accommodating
Compromising
Bottom-up Estimating
39. 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)
Communications requirement analysis
LAG
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
40. 3 main components of the communication model
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Offical
Level of Scope development
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
41. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
A lead
Charismatic
Mutual Exclusivity
Oganization breakdown structure
42. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Benchmarking
Verbal and Non-verbal
Work around
43. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Plan Risk Mgmt
Push Communications
Business Risk
44. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Project Slack
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Work around
45. 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.
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Assumptions
Code of Accounts
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
46. 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
Run Chart
ISO 3 Steps
n *(n -1) /2
Confronting/ Problem solving
47. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Project Selection
Finish to Finish
Perks
48. 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.
Design of Experiments
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Milestone list
Work around
49. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Mediator
Elements of scope
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
50. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Judgemental methods
Influence/Impact Grid
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Residual Risk
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