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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






2. 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)






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






4. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






5. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






6. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






11. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






12. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






13. What is the output of Identify Risk?






14. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






18. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






19. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






20. 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






21. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur






22. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






23. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






24. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






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






26. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






27. 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


28. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






29. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






31. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






32. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






33. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






34. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






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






36. Communication in writing or oral






37. 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






38. Communication that is not on the record






39. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






40. 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






41. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






42. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






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






44. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






45. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






46. 3 main components of the communication model






47. 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






48. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






49. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






50. 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.