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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Create WBS
Director
Power/ Interest Grid
Resource breakdown structure
2. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Salience Model
Coaching
Power/Influence Grid
3. 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
Referent Power
3 Processes of quality managment
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Progress Report
4. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Brainstorming
Implied warranty
Salience Model
Pull Communication
5. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Interactive Communication
Mgmt Reserves
People responsible for quality
Run Chart
6. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Scheduling
Stakeholder Analysis
Forcasting
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
7. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Develop Project Charter
Judgemental methods
Pull Communication
Project management and quality
8. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Milestone Schedule
Status Reports
Sigma
Crashing
9. 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.
Communications requirement analysis
PMIS
Influence/Impact grid
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
10. 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
Phase results are verified and documented
Commincations Mgmt plan
Create WBS
11. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Summary Schdule
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Slack
Mediator
12. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Manage Project Team
Distribute Information
Resource leveling
13. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Selection
Project Scope Statement
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
14. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Summary Schdule
Director
Stakeholder Analysis
Reward Power
15. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Project Scope Statement
Acquire Project Team
Critical Chain Method
Bill of materials
16. 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
Make money and to protect the public
Milestone Schedule
Salience Model
Penalty Power
17. 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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18. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Analogous or Top down Estimating
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
External Comm
19. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Stakeholder Analysis
Strong Matrix
Plan Risk Mgmt
Benchmarking
20. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Formal Power
Scheduling
Delphi Technique
PMIS
21. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Resource breakdown structure
Milestone list
Contingency Reserves
Pareto Diagram
22. Difference between internal and external risk
Code of Accounts
Root cause analysis
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
23. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Implied warranty
Work around
External Contraints
24. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Mediator
Sample Testing
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Collaborating
25. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Work Package
Total Quality Management TQM
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Business Risk
26. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Offical
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Implied warranty
External Comm
27. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Influence/Impact grid
Rolling Wave Planning
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Nonconformance
28. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Referent Power
A lead
Critical Path Method
Phase results are verified and documented
29. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil
Compromising
Critical Path Method
Team development Life Cycle
Start to Start
30. Shows the type of resources broken down
Oganization breakdown structure
Benchmarking
Coaching
Resource breakdown structure
31. 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
Forcing
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Project Scope Statment
Pull Communication
32. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Confronting/ Problem solving
External Comm
Change Control Board
Report Performance
33. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Risk breakdown structure
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Root cause analysis
34. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Project Selection
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Staffing Mgmt Plan
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
35. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Code of Accounts
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Life-cycle costing
36. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Cost of Quality
Influence/Impact grid
Manage Project Team
37. 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)
Cost of Quality
LAG
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Report Performance
38. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
ISO 3 Steps
3 Processes of quality managment
39. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Critical Path Method
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Team development Life Cycle
40. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Team development Life Cycle
Emphasis on defining scope
Resource leveling
Start to Finsh
41. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Elements of scope
Life-cycle costing
Resource breakdown structure
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
42. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Emphasis on defining scope
Report Performance
Offical
43. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Nonconformance
Residual Risk
44. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
LAG
Monte Carlo Technique
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Develop Project Charter
45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
Pull Communication
Confronting/ Problem solving
Vertical Comm
46. 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
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Nonconformance
Run Chart
47. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Project Scope Statment
Cost plus percentage of cost
Acquire Project Team
Charateristics of a project
48. 3 main components of the communication model
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Finish to Finish
Referent Power
Zero duration
49. 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.
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Influence/Impact grid
3 Processes of quality managment
Design of Experiments
50. 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.
Sigma
Just-in-time (JIT)
External Comm
Visionary