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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Interactive Communication
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
2. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Verbal and Non-verbal
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Formal Power
Project Selection
3. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Causal/econometric
Interactive Communication
Distribute Information
Conformance
4. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Contingency Reserves
Mgmt by Objectives
Progress Report
Develop Human Resource Plan
5. 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
Charateristics of a project
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Work Authorization System
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
6. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Free (or Total) float
Project management and quality
3 Processes of quality managment
Finish to Start (Most common)
7. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Finish to Start (Most common)
Expert Power
Verbal and Non-verbal
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
8. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Critical Path Method
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Variance Analysis
Critical Chain Method
9. 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
Total Quality Management TQM
Plan Communication
Referent Power
ISO 3 Steps
10. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mgmt by Objectives
Scope Baseline
Zero duration
11. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Confronting/ Problem solving
Compromising
Reward Power
Cost of Quality
12. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Contingency Reserves
Judgemental methods
Work Authorization System
Sigma
13. 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
Run Chart
Formal Power
Mgmt Reserves
People responsible for quality
14. 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.
Critical Path Method
Collaborating
Scope Baseline
Rolling Wave Planning
15. 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
Compromising
Secondary Risk
Change Control System
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
Develop Project Team
Contraints
Finish to Start (Most common)
Work around
17. 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
Coaching
Make money and to protect the public
Root cause analysis
Controlling communication
18. 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
Crashing
Run of Seven Rule
Conformance
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
19. 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
Code of Accounts
Influence/Impact Grid
Referent Power
Summary Schdule
20. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
A lead
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Project Selection
Milestone Schedule
21. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Impact
Start to Start
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Design of Experiments
22. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Power/Influence Grid
Team development Life Cycle
Communications requirement analysis
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
23. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Fast Tracking
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Organization Breakdown Structure
24. 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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25. 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
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Pull Communication
ISO 3 Steps
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
26. 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 Register
Life-cycle costing
Risk Breakdown Structure
Penalty Power
27. A milestone has a ______duration
Mutual Exclusivity
Breach
Distribute Information
Zero duration
28. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
A lead
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
RAM charts
29. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Sigma
Mgmt by Objectives
Create WBS
Smoothing and withdrawal
30. Communication in writing or oral
Secondary Risk
Bill of materials
Written or oral
Phase results are verified and documented
31. 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.
Breach
Design of Experiments
Approved Change
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
32. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Pull Communication
Finish to Start (Most common)
Director
33. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Assumptions
Rolling Wave Planning
Secondary Risk
Project Slack
34. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Contraints
Business Risk
People responsible for quality
Start to Finsh
35. 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
Delphi Technique
Confronting/ Problem solving
Unoffical Comm
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
36. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Work Authorization System
Code of Accounts
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Expectancy Theory
37. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Coaching
Project Scope Statement
Push Communications
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
38. 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
Finish to Start (Most common)
Resource breakdown structure
Acquire Project Team
Gold Plating
39. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Create WBS
Statistical Independence
Level of Scope development
40. 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.
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Visionary
Develop Human Resource Plan
Closing the project
41. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Penalty Power
Manage Project Team
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Hygiene factors
42. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Fringe
Milestone list
Formal Power
Rolling Wave Planning
43. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Closing the project
Change Control Board
Report Performance
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
44. 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
Resource leveling
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Free (or Total) float
45. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Fast Tracking
Project Scope Statment
Salience Model
LAG
46. 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.
Gold Plating
PMIS
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Unoffical Comm
47. 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
Delphi Technique
Work Authorization System
Root cause analysis
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
48. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Milestone Schedule
Start to Finsh
Start to Start
Secondary Risk
49. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Interactive Communication
Indentify Risk
Develop Human Resource Plan
50. 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
Approved Change
RAM charts
3 Processes of quality managment
Nonconformance