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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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)
6 sigma
Sample Testing
Forcing
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
2. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Collaborating
Create WBS
Indentify Stakholders
Level of Scope development
3. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
A lead
Risk breakdown structure
Finish to Finish
4. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Visionary
Impact
Design of Experiments
Benchmarking
5. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Causal/econometric
Bill of materials
Written or oral
Cost plus percentage of cost
6. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Facilitator
Bottom-up estimating
90%
FORMAL Communication
7. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Brainstorming
Risk Breakdown Structure
Charismatic
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
8. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Project Scope Statement
Design of Experiments
Perks
Life-cycle costing
9. Communication in writing or oral
Change Control Board
Bottom-up estimating
Written or oral
Reward Power
10. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Develop Project Team
Assumptions
Scope Baseline
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
11. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Perks
Mutual Exclusivity
12. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Power/ Interest Grid
Business Risk
Risk Triggers
13. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Path Method
Start to Finsh
14. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Controlling communication
Salience Model
Cost plus percentage of cost
15. 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
Run Chart
Cost plus percentage of cost
Compromising
Report Performance
16. Communication with peers
Horizontal Comm
Finish to Start (Most common)
Project Scope Statement
Expert Power
17. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Influence/Impact Grid
Crashing
Approved Change
Project Scope Statment
18. What is the number source of conflict?
Delphi Technique
Reward Power
Indentify Risk
Scheduling
19. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Bottom-up estimating
Hygiene factors
20. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Pure Risk
Interactive Communication
Critical Path Method
Run Chart
21. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Milestone Schedule
Benchmarking
Work Authorization System
22. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Phase results are verified and documented
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Causal/econometric
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
23. 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
Communications requirement analysis
Unoffical Comm
Business Risk
24. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Total Quality Management TQM
Run Chart
Root cause analysis
25. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Business Risk
Monte Carlo Technique
Organization Breakdown Structure
Pure Risk
26. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Brainstorming
Impact
Risk Owner
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
27. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Fast Tracking
Formal Power
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Pareto Diagram
28. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Statistical Independence
Finish to Start (Most common)
Critical Chain Method
Coaching
29. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Forcing
Resource breakdown structure
Smoothing and withdrawal
Work Authorization System
30. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
Critical Path Method
Visionary
90%
31. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Implied warranty
Forcing
32. 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
Verbal and Non-verbal
Influence/Impact Grid
Referent Power
Make money and to protect the public
33. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
LAG
Status Reports
The 100% Rule
Forcasting
34. 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
Fringe
Verbal and Non-verbal
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Start to Finsh
35. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Charateristics of a project
Just-in-time (JIT)
Written or oral
Progress Report
36. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
n *(n -1) /2
Secondary Risk
People responsible for quality
Level of Scope development
37. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Coaching
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Judgemental methods
Risk Owner
38. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Variance Analysis
Withdrawing/Avoiding
People responsible for quality
39. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Project management and quality
Interactive Communication
3 Processes of quality managment
40. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Vertical Comm
Pure Risk
41. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Oganization breakdown structure
Nonconformance
42. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Gold Plating
Smoothing/Accommodating
Risk Register
Summary Schdule
43. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Monte Carlo Technique
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Resource breakdown structure
Free (or Total) float
44. Difference between internal and external risk
Risk breakdown structure
Causal/econometric
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
45. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Variance Analysis
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Organization Breakdown Structure
FORMAL Communication
46. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Forcing
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Critical Chain Method
47. 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
Internal comm
Facilitator
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Rolling Wave Planning
48. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Controlling communication
Stakeholder Analysis
Scatter Diagram
Director
49. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Fringe
Sample Testing
Requested Changes
Life-cycle costing
50. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Project Scope Statement
Charateristics of a project
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Activity List