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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






2. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






7. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






8. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






9. 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.






10. 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






11. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






12. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






13. 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.






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






15. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






16. 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






17. 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

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18. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






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






20. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






21. 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






22. Difference between internal and external risk






23. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






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






25. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






26. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






27. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.






28. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






29. 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






30. Shows the type of resources broken down






31. 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






32. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






33. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






34. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






35. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






36. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






37. 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)






38. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






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






40. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






41. 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






42. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






43. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






44. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






46. 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






47. 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






48. 3 main components of the communication model






49. 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.






50. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.