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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Hygiene factors
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Mutual Exclusivity
Critical Path Method
2. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Contraints
n *(n -1) /2
Contingency Reserves
3. 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
Design of Experiments
Conformance
Perks
Just-in-time (JIT)
4. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Milestone Schedule
Develop Project Charter
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Benchmarking
5. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Hygiene factors
Perks
Charateristics of a project
Gold Plating
6. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Nonconformance
Risk Owner
Breach
Perks
7. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Distribute Information
Commincations Mgmt plan
Total Quality Management TQM
Gold Plating
8. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
People responsible for quality
Rolling Wave Planning
Push Communications
Schedules - project priorities - resources
9. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
90%
Develop Project Charter
Phase results are verified and documented
Activity List
10. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Power/Influence Grid
Mutual Exclusivity
Fast Tracking
Expert Power
11. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Risk Owner
People responsible for quality
Breach
Strong Matrix
12. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
ISO 3 Steps
Critical Chain Method
FORMAL Communication
13. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Root cause analysis
Communications requirement analysis
A lead
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
14. 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.
Cost plus percentage of cost
Life-cycle costing
Commincations Mgmt plan
RAM charts
15. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Life-cycle costing
Delphi Technique
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Progress Report
16. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Project management and quality
Concept of the Halo Theory
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Free (or Total) float
17. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution
Resource leveling
Influence/Impact Grid
Bill of materials
Risk Triggers
18. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Fast Tracking
Oganization breakdown structure
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Just-in-time (JIT)
19. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Free (or Total) float
Time series method
Create WBS
20. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Power/ Interest Grid
PMIS
Gold Plating
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
21. 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
Plan Communication
ISO 3 Steps
Run Chart
Pull Communication
22. 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
Code of Accounts
Work around
Mgmt by Objectives
Scope Baseline
23. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
External Contraints
Cost of Quality
Start to Start
24. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Formal Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Level of Scope development
Variance Analysis
25. 3 main components of the communication model
Mgmt by Objectives
n *(n -1) /2
Elements of scope
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
26. 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
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Team development Life Cycle
Concept of the Halo Theory
27. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Project Selection
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Requested Changes
28. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Delphi Technique
Charateristics of a project
Create WBS
Fringe
29. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Milestone list
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Rolling Wave Planning
30. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Cost of Quality
Assumptions
Zero duration
Forcasting
31. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Start to Start
Residual Risk
Pure Risk
Indentify Risk
32. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Scope Baseline
Risk Triggers
ISO 3 Steps
Work Authorization System
33. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Work Package
Controlling communication
Design of Experiments
Crashing
34. 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
Charateristics of a project
Risk breakdown structure
Breach
Sample Testing
35. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Fringe
Rolling Wave Planning
External Comm
36. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Finish to Finish
90%
Impact
Variance Analysis
37. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Risk Register
Vertical Comm
Impact
Progress Report
38. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Change Control System
Verbal and Non-verbal
Organization Breakdown Structure
39. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Crashing
Internal comm
Expectancy Theory
6 sigma
40. 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
Controlling communication
Elements of scope
Milestone list
Organization Breakdown Structure
41. 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.
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Scatter Diagram
Risk Breakdown Structure
Start to Start
42. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Acquire Project Team
Cost of Quality
Vertical Comm
43. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Rolling Wave Planning
Plan Risk Mgmt
Interactive Communication
Team development Life Cycle
44. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Resource breakdown structure
Expectancy Theory
Develop Human Resource Plan
Salience Model
45. Communication up and down the organization
Indentify Stakholders
Root cause analysis
Vertical Comm
Causal/econometric
46. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Create WBS
Compromising
47. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Time series method
Coaching
Oganization breakdown structure
Judgemental methods
48. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
n *(n -1) /2
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Sample Testing
Start to Start
49. 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
External Contraints
Phase results are verified and documented
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Bottom-up estimating
50. 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)
Develop Project Charter
Critical Path Method
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Power/ Interest Grid