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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Change Control Board
Business Risk
Unoffical Comm
Milestone list
2. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Work Authorization System
Summary Schdule
Pure Risk
3. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Assumptions
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Causal/econometric
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
4. Communication formula
Closing the project
n *(n -1) /2
Fast Tracking
Schedules - project priorities - resources
5. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Implied warranty
Compromising
Risk breakdown structure
6. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Fast Tracking
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Brainstorming
7. 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
Project Scope Statment
Delphi Technique
Time series method
Assumptions
8. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Collaborating
Report Performance
Sample Testing
A lead
9. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Phase results are verified and documented
Run of Seven Rule
6 sigma
Requested Changes
10. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Develop Human Resource Plan
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
People responsible for quality
Brainstorming
11. 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
Risk Owner
Formal Power
Just-in-time (JIT)
Mgmt by Objectives
12. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Run of Seven Rule
Penalty Power
Causal/econometric
RAM charts
13. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Acquire Project Team
Compromising
Time series method
Progress Report
14. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Level of Scope development
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Resource leveling
15. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Change Control Board
Contraints
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Cost plus percentage of cost
16. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Plan Risk Mgmt
Critical Chain Method
17. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Risk Register
Compromising
Indentify Risk
Run Chart
18. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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19. 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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20. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Unoffical Comm
Scatter Diagram
Root cause analysis
21. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Develop Human Resource Plan
Gold Plating
Power/ Interest Grid
22. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
n *(n -1) /2
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Contingency Reserves
Analogous or Top down Estimating
23. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Nonconformance
Controlling communication
Pull Communication
Change Control System
24. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
Critical Chain Method
Bottom-up estimating
Cost of Quality
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
25. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
RAM charts
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Monte Carlo Technique
Finish to Start (Most common)
26. 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.
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Influence/Impact grid
Mediator
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
27. 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.
Charismatic
Visionary
Sigma
Charateristics of a project
28. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Autocratic
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Phase results are verified and documented
29. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Status Reports
Run of Seven Rule
Nonconformance
30. 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.
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Assumptions
Work around
31. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
A lead
Pull Communication
Director
32. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Collaborating
Causal/econometric
Root cause analysis
Bottom-up estimating
33. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Life-cycle costing
Time series method
Internal comm
34. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
Assumptions
Demings' 14 principles of Management
35. 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
Push Communications
Indentify Risk
RAM charts
External Comm
36. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Finish to Start (Most common)
A lead
Indentify Risk
37. 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
Expert Power
Charateristics of a project
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Pure Risk
38. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Forcasting
Secondary Risk
39. 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
Fast Tracking
Resource leveling
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
40. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Power/Influence Grid
Scatter Diagram
Unoffical Comm
41. 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
Charismatic
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Finish to Finish
Approved Change
42. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Autocratic
Influence/Impact grid
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Closing the project
43. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Risk Owner
Plan Communication
Communications requirement analysis
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
44. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
ISO 3 Steps
Oganization breakdown structure
Sample Testing
Milestone list
45. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Verbal and Non-verbal
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Requested Changes
Indentify Stakholders
46. 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.
Summary Schdule
Commincations Mgmt plan
Fast Tracking
Risk Triggers
47. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Expectancy Theory
Time series method
Salience Model
Delphi Technique
48. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Stakeholder Analysis
Start to Start
Resource leveling
49. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Phase results are verified and documented
PMIS
Variance Analysis
A Lag
50. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
Gold Plating
Risk Breakdown Structure
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
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