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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Difference between internal and external risk






2. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers






3. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






4. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






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






7. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






8. Communication up and down the organization






9. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






10. 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






11. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






12. What is the output of Identify Risk?






13. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






14. 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.






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






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






17. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






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






19. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






20. 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)






21. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






22. 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.






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






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






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






26. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






27. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






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






29. 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






30. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






31. 3 main components of the communication model






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






42. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






43. 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






44. Communication that is not on the record






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






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






47. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






48. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation






49. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






50. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.