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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






2. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






3. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






4. 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






5. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. Communication up and down the organization






10. 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






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






12. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






13. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






14. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






15. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






16. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






21. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






22. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






23. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






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






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






26. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.






27. 3 main components of the communication model






28. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. One choice does not include any other choices






35. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






36. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






37. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






38. What is the number source of conflict?






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






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






41. Communication formula






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






43. 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






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






45. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






46. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






47. 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






48. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






49. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






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