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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. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Project Scope Statement
Confronting/ Problem solving
Residual Risk
2. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Contingency Reserves
Organization Breakdown Structure
3. 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
Requested Changes
Breach
Risk breakdown structure
4. 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)
LAG
Charismatic
Scheduling
Phase results are verified and documented
5. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Work around
Stakeholder Analysis
Salience Model
6. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Autocratic
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
7. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Phase results are verified and documented
Start to Start
Requested Changes
Indentify Risk
8. 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.
Perks
Bottom-up estimating
Risk Breakdown Structure
External Comm
9. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Sigma
Oganization breakdown structure
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Risk breakdown structure
10. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Power/ Interest Grid
Life-cycle costing
Push Communications
Written or oral
11. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Bill of materials
Conformance
Expert Power
12. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Pareto Diagram
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Risk Register
13. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
External Contraints
RAM charts
Formal Power
14. 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.
Just-in-time (JIT)
A Lag
Scope Baseline
Smoothing and withdrawal
15. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Compromising
Change Control Board
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
16. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Root cause analysis
Contraints
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Fringe
17. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Scheduling
Commincations Mgmt plan
Root cause analysis
People responsible for quality
18. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Organization Breakdown Structure
Start to Start
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Brainstorming
19. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Coaching
Monte Carlo Technique
Project Slack
20. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Gold Plating
Contingency Reserves
Report Performance
Work around
21. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Referent Power
Impact
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Influence/Impact Grid
22. 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
Verbal and Non-verbal
Life-cycle costing
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Pull Communication
23. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
The 100% Rule
Acquire Project Team
Pull Communication
Communications requirement analysis
24. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Resource breakdown structure
Make money and to protect the public
Design of Experiments
90%
25. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Risk Owner
Reward Power
Variance Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
26. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Bottom-up estimating
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Code of Accounts
Facilitator
27. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Salience Model
Progress Report
Mediator
Hygiene factors
28. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Conformance
Staffing Mgmt Plan
The 100% Rule
29. 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
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Expert Power
Pareto Diagram
Staffing Mgmt Plan
30. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Free (or Total) float
Breach
Controlling communication
Mgmt Reserves
31. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Finish to Start (Most common)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Sample Testing
Analogous or Top down Estimating
32. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Develop Human Resource Plan
Unoffical Comm
Compromising
Bill of materials
33. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Expert Power
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Reward Power
34. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Plan Risk Mgmt
Perks
Oganization breakdown structure
Project Scope Statement
35. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Mgmt Reserves
Interactive Communication
Monte Carlo Technique
Project Selection
36. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Unoffical Comm
Fringe
Risk breakdown structure
Distribute Information
37. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Make money and to protect the public
Finish to Start (Most common)
Facilitator
Controlling communication
38. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Crashing
A Lag
Bill of materials
Resource leveling
39. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Plan Risk Mgmt
Collaborating
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
40. 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
Activity List
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Charismatic
41. 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
Milestone list
Bottom-up estimating
Breach
Perks
42. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Project Scope Statement
A lead
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
43. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Develop Project Charter
External Comm
Power/Influence Grid
44. 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
Design of Experiments
Scatter Diagram
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Push Communications
45. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Scheduling
Sample Testing
Push Communications
Influence/Impact Grid
46. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Change Control System
Nonconformance
Level of Scope development
47. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Project Scope Statement
Impact
Requested Changes
Bottom-up Estimating
48. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Milestone Schedule
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Work Authorization System
49. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Assumptions
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
50. 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
Expert Power
Organization Breakdown Structure
Contraints
Resource breakdown structure