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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Forcing
Mutual Exclusivity
Root cause analysis
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
2. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
Commincations Mgmt plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Time series method
3. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Plan Risk Mgmt
Life-cycle costing
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
4. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Benchmarking
Interactive Communication
Approved Change
Finish to Start (Most common)
5. 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
Confronting/ Problem solving
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Work around
Penalty Power
6. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
People responsible for quality
Secondary Risk
Oganization breakdown structure
Indentify Stakholders
7. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Project management and quality
Commincations Mgmt plan
Approved Change
Progress Report
8. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Mgmt by Objectives
Collaborating
Total Quality Management TQM
9. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
External Comm
Conformance
Change Control System
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
10. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Fast Tracking
Milestone Schedule
Reward Power
Smoothing and withdrawal
11. 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.
Scheduling
Project Selection
PMIS
Project Scope Statment
12. 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
Develop Human Resource Plan
Run of Seven Rule
Resource breakdown structure
Sample Testing
13. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Reward Power
Vertical Comm
Risk Register
Oganization breakdown structure
14. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Director
Gold Plating
Forcing
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
15. 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
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Rolling Wave Planning
Charateristics of a project
Contraints
16. 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
Coaching
Mgmt Reserves
Emphasis on defining scope
Work around
17. 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.
Conformance
Commincations Mgmt plan
Cost of Quality
Implied warranty
18. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Salience Model
Resource breakdown structure
Root cause analysis
19. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Director
Activity List
The 100% Rule
Perks
20. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Free (or Total) float
The 100% Rule
Monte Carlo Technique
Project Scope Statment
21. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Plan Risk Mgmt
Contingency Reserves
Conformance
Work Package
22. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Forcing
Develop Human Resource Plan
Closing the project
23. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Resource breakdown structure
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
External Comm
24. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Power/Influence Grid
Level of Scope development
Benchmarking
Free (or Total) float
25. 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
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Referent Power
Interactive Communication
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
26. Communication in writing or oral
Project Scope Statment
Written or oral
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Formal Power
27. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Work Authorization System
Delphi Technique
Implied warranty
Critical Path Method
28. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Residual Risk
Collaborating
Risk Owner
29. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Closing the project
Expert Power
FORMAL Communication
30. 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
Work Authorization System
Judgemental methods
Pull Communication
Change Control System
31. 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
Autocratic
Pareto Diagram
Milestone Schedule
Communications requirement analysis
32. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Pure Risk
Influence/Impact Grid
RAM charts
33. 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
Closing the project
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Bottom-up Estimating
Director
34. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Start to Start
35. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Penalty Power
Contingency Reserves
Compromising
Director
36. 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
A lead
Team development Life Cycle
Variance Analysis
Delphi Technique
37. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Plan Risk Mgmt
Forcasting
Time series method
Finish to Start (Most common)
38. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Project Slack
Project Scope Statement
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
39. 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
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Scheduling
Facilitator
40. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel
Judgemental methods
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
External Comm
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
41. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Causal/econometric
Progress Report
Mediator
Bill of materials
42. Commuincation within the project
Controlling communication
A Lag
Internal comm
Work Authorization System
43. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
44. 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.
Gold Plating
Plan Communication
Hygiene factors
Impact
45. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Crashing
Smoothing/Accommodating
Mediator
Written or oral
46. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Causal/econometric
A Lag
Delphi Technique
Sample Testing
47. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Summary Schdule
Residual Risk
Report Performance
Forcasting
48. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Residual Risk
3 Processes of quality managment
Charateristics of a project
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
49. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Project Scope Statement
Expert Power
Pure Risk
Salience Model
50. 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
Hygiene factors
PMIS
Referent Power
Work Authorization System