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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






6. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






7. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






8. 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






9. 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






10. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






11. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






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






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






14. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






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






16. 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






17. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






18. Communication in writing or oral






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






20. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






21. 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






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






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






24. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






25. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






26. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






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






28. 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






29. Communication formula






30. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






31. 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






32. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






39. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






40. 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






41. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






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






43. A milestone has a ______duration






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






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






46. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






47. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






48. 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






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






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