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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






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






3. 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






4. Communication that is not on the record






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






6. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






7. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






15. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






16. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






17. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur






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






19. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






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. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






22. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






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






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






25. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






35. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






36. Commuincation within the project






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






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






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






40. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






41. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






42. What is the output of Identify Risk?






43. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






44. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






46. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






47. 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






48. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






49. 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.






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