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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. What is the output of Identify Risk?






4. 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)






5. 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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






9. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






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






11. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






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






13. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






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






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






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






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






18. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






19. 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.






20. 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






21. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






22. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






23. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






24. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






31. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






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






33. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






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






35. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






41. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






42. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






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






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






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






46. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






47. 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






48. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






49. 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






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