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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Autocratic
Rolling Wave Planning
Monte Carlo Technique
Oganization breakdown structure
2. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Forcing
Make money and to protect the public
RAM charts
3. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Report Performance
Gold Plating
Forcing
Visionary
4. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Power/Influence Grid
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Benchmarking
Report Performance
5. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Concept of the Halo Theory
Scheduling
Benchmarking
Bottom-up Estimating
6. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Sample Testing
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Breach
7. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Scope Baseline
Impact
8. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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9. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Smoothing/Accommodating
ISO 3 Steps
Mgmt Reserves
10. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Visionary
Horizontal Comm
11. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Mgmt Reserves
Variance Analysis
Business Risk
12. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
3 Processes of quality managment
Elements of scope
Stakeholder Analysis
Develop Project Team
13. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Acquire Project Team
Forcing
Smoothing and withdrawal
Fringe
14. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Autocratic
Zero duration
Scatter Diagram
Change Control System
15. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Push Communications
Vertical Comm
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Acquire Project Team
16. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Judgemental methods
Compromising
Risk Breakdown Structure
17. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Referent Power
Report Performance
18. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Delphi Technique
Nonconformance
Run Chart
19. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Variance Analysis
Indentify Risk
Requested Changes
Rolling Wave Planning
20. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Crashing
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Forcasting
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
21. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Approved Change
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Interactive Communication
22. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Causal/econometric
6 sigma
Smoothing/Accommodating
Contraints
23. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Penalty Power
Secondary Risk
Bottom-up estimating
Indentify Risk
24. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Compromising
Contingency Reserves
Scope Baseline
25. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Bottom-up Estimating
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Approved Change
Collaborating
26. A milestone has a ______duration
Salience Model
Project Slack
Zero duration
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
27. 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
Formal Power
Contingency Reserves
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
28. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Salience Model
External Contraints
Make money and to protect the public
29. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Root cause analysis
Start to Finsh
3 Processes of quality managment
30. 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
Pure Risk
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
31. 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
Level of Scope development
Milestone Schedule
Risk breakdown structure
Sigma
32. 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
Indentify Risk
Pure Risk
Pull Communication
Implied warranty
33. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Critical Chain Method
Mgmt by Objectives
Vertical Comm
Pure Risk
34. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Root cause analysis
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Emphasis on defining scope
35. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Causal/econometric
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Approved Change
Time series method
36. 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
Charateristics of a project
Coaching
Indentify Stakholders
Elements of scope
37. 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
Project Scope Statment
Pure Risk
Team development Life Cycle
Interactive Communication
38. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Finish to Finish
Risk Breakdown Structure
39. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Autocratic
Referent Power
Horizontal Comm
Penalty Power
40. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Sample Testing
Total Quality Management TQM
LAG
Coaching
41. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Business Risk
Director
Zero duration
External Comm
42. 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
Plan Communication
Push Communications
Pull Communication
Contraints
43. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Director
Judgemental methods
Contingency Reserves
44. 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
Pareto Diagram
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Indentify Stakholders
Life-cycle costing
45. 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
Bottom-up estimating
Change Control Board
Bill of materials
A lead
46. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Variance Analysis
Strong Matrix
Reward Power
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
47. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Push Communications
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Risk Owner
48. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Power/ Interest Grid
Crashing
Confronting/ Problem solving
49. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Referent Power
Just-in-time (JIT)
Power/Influence Grid
50. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
Risk Triggers
Facilitator
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)