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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






2. 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






3. Difference between internal and external risk






4. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






5. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






6. 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.






7. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






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






9. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






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






11. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






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






13. 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






14. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






15. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






16. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






17. What is the output of Identify Risk?






18. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






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






20. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






21. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






22. 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






23. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






24. What is the number source of conflict?






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






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






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






31. Communication up and down the organization






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






33. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






39. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






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






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






42. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






43. A milestone has a ______duration






44. 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






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






46. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale