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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Contingency Reserves
Stakeholder Analysis
Salience Model
2. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Team development Life Cycle
Distribute Information
Fringe
3. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Confronting/ Problem solving
Develop Human Resource Plan
Root cause analysis
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
4. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Start to Start
Indentify Risk
PMIS
RAM charts
5. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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6. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Finish to Finish
Pareto Diagram
Perks
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
7. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Interactive Communication
Scatter Diagram
External Comm
Facilitator
8. 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
Implied warranty
Resource breakdown structure
Project Scope Statement
Concept of the Halo Theory
9. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Internal comm
10. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Status Reports
Monte Carlo Technique
Delphi Technique
Concept of the Halo Theory
11. 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
Statistical Independence
Risk Breakdown Structure
Contraints
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
12. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Resource leveling
Sigma
Develop Project Team
Plan Risk Mgmt
13. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Contraints
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Elements of scope
14. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Cost of Quality
n *(n -1) /2
Internal comm
15. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Project Scope Statment
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Sigma
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
16. 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
A lead
Salience Model
Contraints
Withdrawing/Avoiding
17. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Team development Life Cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
18. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Bottom-up estimating
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Gold Plating
Expert Power
19. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Causal/econometric
RAM charts
20. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Business Risk
Requested Changes
Finish to Finish
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
21. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Confronting/ Problem solving
Influence/Impact Grid
Scope Baseline
22. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Project Slack
Benchmarking
Forcasting
Formal Power
23. 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.
People responsible for quality
Finish to Start (Most common)
Risk Breakdown Structure
Hygiene factors
24. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Secondary Risk
Scheduling
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Expectancy Theory
25. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
ISO 3 Steps
Formal Power
Crashing
Zero duration
26. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Manage Project Team
The 100% Rule
Scope Baseline
Make money and to protect the public
27. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
ISO 3 Steps
Collaborating
A Lag
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
28. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Bill of materials
Unoffical Comm
Time series method
Emphasis on defining scope
29. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Secondary Risk
Milestone list
Conformance
30. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Just-in-time (JIT)
A lead
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Secondary Risk
31. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Brainstorming
Organization Breakdown Structure
Expectancy Theory
Activity List
32. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
Phase results are verified and documented
Implied warranty
Smoothing/Accommodating
33. 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.
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Design of Experiments
Bottom-up estimating
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
34. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Smoothing and withdrawal
Code of Accounts
Plan Risk Mgmt
Work Authorization System
35. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
FORMAL Communication
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Develop Project Team
36. 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
Forcasting
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Influence/Impact Grid
Smoothing/Accommodating
37. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Organization Breakdown Structure
Referent Power
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
38. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Elements of scope
Hygiene factors
Free (or Total) float
People responsible for quality
39. 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
RAM charts
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Forcasting
Approved Change
40. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Start to Start
Manage Project Team
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Breach
41. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Conformance
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Life-cycle costing
42. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Autocratic
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Assumptions
43. 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.
Referent Power
Fast Tracking
Cost plus percentage of cost
Start to Start
44. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Risk Owner
Breach
Power/Influence Grid
External Contraints
45. 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
Internal comm
Bill of materials
Rolling Wave Planning
Communications requirement analysis
46. 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
Power/ Interest Grid
Manage Project Team
RAM charts
Project Slack
47. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Communications requirement analysis
Implied warranty
Risk Owner
48. 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
Cost of Quality
Charismatic
Plan Risk Mgmt
49. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Zero duration
90%
Mgmt by Objectives
Start to Finsh
50. 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
Work Package
Progress Report
Reward Power
Pareto Diagram