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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






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






3. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






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






5. 3 main components of the communication model






6. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






7. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






8. 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.






9. 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






10. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






11. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






13. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






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






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






16. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






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






18. 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)






19. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






20. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






21. Communication up and down the organization






22. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






23. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






24. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






25. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations






26. 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.






27. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






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






29. Communication that is not on the record






30. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






31. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






32. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






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






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






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






36. Delphi Technique Interviewing






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






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






50. 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.