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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Activity List
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Vertical Comm
Internal comm
2. A milestone has a ______duration
Plan Communication
Impact
Zero duration
Free (or Total) float
3. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Change Control System
Confronting/ Problem solving
Stakeholder Analysis
4. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Offical
Crashing
Influence/Impact Grid
Fringe
5. 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.
FORMAL Communication
Expectancy Theory
6 sigma
Visionary
6. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Power/ Interest Grid
FORMAL Communication
Facilitator
Milestone Schedule
7. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Milestone Schedule
Status Reports
Elements of scope
Mediator
8. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Activity List
A lead
Risk breakdown structure
Pareto Diagram
9. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
10. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
RAM charts
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Progress Report
Summary Schdule
11. 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
Closing the project
Penalty Power
Crashing
Influence/Impact Grid
12. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Resource leveling
6 sigma
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
13. 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
Risk Register
Pull Communication
Rolling Wave Planning
Monte Carlo Technique
14. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Impact
Smoothing and withdrawal
Push Communications
15. 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
Run Chart
Collaborating
Develop Project Charter
16. 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.
Forcasting
Root cause analysis
Commincations Mgmt plan
Acquire Project Team
17. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Team development Life Cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
18. 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
Sample Testing
Contingency Reserves
Change Control System
Referent Power
19. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Risk Register
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
20. Commuincation within the project
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Internal comm
Charismatic
21. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Develop Project Team
Fast Tracking
22. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Offical
Risk Owner
Code of Accounts
23. 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
Commincations Mgmt plan
Resource breakdown structure
FORMAL Communication
Bill of materials
24. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Work around
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
n *(n -1) /2
Activity List
25. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Written or oral
A Lag
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Internal comm
26. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk breakdown structure
Start to Finsh
27. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
External Comm
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
28. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Sample Testing
External Comm
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Power/Influence Grid
29. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Penalty Power
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Expectancy Theory
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
30. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Requested Changes
Organization Breakdown Structure
Phase results are verified and documented
31. 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
Visionary
ISO 3 Steps
Status Reports
Compromising
32. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Perks
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
3 Processes of quality managment
33. 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)
Benchmarking
Run of Seven Rule
Approved Change
LAG
34. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Salience Model
Risk Triggers
Time series method
Indentify Stakholders
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
Scope Baseline
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Crashing
Penalty Power
36. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Conformance
Scope Baseline
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
37. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
90%
Distribute Information
Delphi Technique
Controlling communication
38. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Conformance
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Distribute Information
39. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Zero duration
Indentify Stakholders
40. 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.
Concept of the Halo Theory
Power/ Interest Grid
Plan Communication
Risk breakdown structure
41. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Life-cycle costing
Referent Power
Finish to Start (Most common)
Project Slack
42. What is the number source of conflict?
Level of Scope development
Scheduling
Forcing
Gold Plating
43. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Bill of materials
Project management and quality
Residual Risk
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
Work Authorization System
Push Communications
Controlling communication
Create WBS
45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
PMIS
Pareto Diagram
46. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Monte Carlo Technique
3 Processes of quality managment
Cost of Quality
47. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Progress Report
Root cause analysis
Run of Seven Rule
Develop Project Charter
48. 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
Contraints
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Power/ Interest Grid
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
49. Communication in writing or oral
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Register
External Contraints
Written or oral
50. 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
Brainstorming
Rolling Wave Planning
Secondary Risk
Communications requirement analysis