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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






2. Communication with peers






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






4. 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






5. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






6. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






7. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






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






9. 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.






10. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






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






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






13. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






14. Communication formula






15. 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)






16. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






17. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






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






19. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






20. 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






21. Difference between internal and external risk






22. 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






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






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






25. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






26. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






27. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






28. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






29. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






30. One choice does not include any other choices






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






32. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






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






34. 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






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






36. Delphi Technique Interviewing






37. 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






38. 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.






39. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






40. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






41. 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.






42. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur






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






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






45. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






46. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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47. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






48. 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.






49. 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






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