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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Commincations Mgmt plan
Bottom-up estimating
Stakeholder Analysis
2. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Referent Power
Cost plus percentage of cost
Salience Model
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
3. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Referent Power
90%
Critical Chain Method
4. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Finish to Finish
Concept of the Halo Theory
Approved Change
Fast Tracking
5. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Influence/Impact Grid
Work Package
Risk Triggers
Critical Chain Method
6. 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.
Stakeholder Analysis
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
7. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Internal comm
Pull Communication
Milestone Schedule
Expectancy Theory
8. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Critical Path Method
Total Quality Management TQM
Indentify Stakholders
Compromising
9. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Work Authorization System
Commincations Mgmt plan
Milestone list
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
10. 3 main components of the communication model
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Demings' 14 principles of Management
11. 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
Finish to Start (Most common)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Influence/Impact grid
Coaching
12. 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
Visionary
Contingency Reserves
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Rolling Wave Planning
13. 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
Work Package
Elements of scope
Concept of the Halo Theory
Written or oral
14. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Collaborating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Time series method
Cost of Quality
15. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Strong Matrix
Bottom-up estimating
Verbal and Non-verbal
Status Reports
16. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Brainstorming
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Referent Power
Crashing
17. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Written or oral
Demings' 14 principles of Management
FORMAL Communication
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
18. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Variance Analysis
Assumptions
Statistical Independence
Secondary Risk
19. 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
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Team development Life Cycle
Charateristics of a project
20. 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.
Sample Testing
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
90%
Risk Breakdown Structure
21. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Level of Scope development
External Contraints
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
22. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Resource breakdown structure
Project Slack
Work Package
Analogous or Top down Estimating
23. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Make money and to protect the public
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Rolling Wave Planning
24. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Make money and to protect the public
Sigma
Zero duration
Salience Model
25. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Impact
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Benchmarking
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
26. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Expectancy Theory
Finish to Finish
Referent Power
Develop Human Resource Plan
27. 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
Milestone Schedule
Forcasting
Activity List
Controlling communication
28. 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
Run of Seven Rule
Progress Report
Work Authorization System
Variance Analysis
29. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Total Quality Management TQM
External Contraints
30. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Power/ Interest Grid
Fast Tracking
31. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Scope Baseline
Root cause analysis
Influence/Impact Grid
32. 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
Strong Matrix
Mediator
Residual Risk
Controlling communication
33. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Smoothing/Accommodating
Contingency Reserves
Delphi Technique
Fringe
34. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Contingency Reserves
People responsible for quality
Risk Triggers
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
35. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Time series method
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Vertical Comm
36. 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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37. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Pareto Diagram
Work Authorization System
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
38. 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.
Benchmarking
Assumptions
Manage Project Team
Develop Human Resource Plan
39. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Distribute Information
External Comm
Finish to Finish
Director
40. 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
Mutual Exclusivity
Resource breakdown structure
Verbal and Non-verbal
Communications requirement analysis
41. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Verbal and Non-verbal
42. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Hygiene factors
Life-cycle costing
Start to Finsh
Verbal and Non-verbal
43. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Push Communications
Work Package
Controlling communication
Facilitator
44. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
6 sigma
Bottom-up estimating
Mediator
Distribute Information
45. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Impact
Vertical Comm
Just-in-time (JIT)
46. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Pull Communication
Brainstorming
Code of Accounts
Sample Testing
47. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Pull Communication
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Fringe
48. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
Work Package
Formal Power
Horizontal Comm
49. 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)
Collaborating
Start to Start
Scope Baseline
50. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Rolling Wave Planning
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Secondary Risk