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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






2. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






3. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






4. 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






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






6. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






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






8. 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)






9. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






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






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






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






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






14. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






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






16. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






17. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






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






19. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






20. 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






21. Delphi Technique Interviewing






22. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






29. Communication in writing or oral






30. 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






31. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






32. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






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






34. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






35. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations






36. Communication that is not on the record






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






38. 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






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






40. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






41. 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






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






43. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Communication up and down the organization