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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Activity List
Project Scope Statement
90%
2. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Work around
Oganization breakdown structure
Bill of materials
Pure Risk
3. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Rolling Wave Planning
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
4. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Stakeholder Analysis
Implied warranty
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
5. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Charismatic
Scheduling
Conformance
Closing the project
6. 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
Scatter Diagram
Referent Power
Work Authorization System
Residual Risk
7. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Develop Project Team
Hygiene factors
Charateristics of a project
Impact
8. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
6 sigma
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Vertical Comm
9. 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.
Design of Experiments
Work Authorization System
Vertical Comm
Verbal and Non-verbal
10. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
External Comm
Report Performance
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Staffing Mgmt Plan
11. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
External Contraints
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Facilitator
Free (or Total) float
12. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Start to Start
3 Processes of quality managment
Variance Analysis
Unoffical Comm
13. 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.
Total Quality Management TQM
Visionary
Design of Experiments
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
14. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Summary Schdule
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Power/ Interest Grid
Free (or Total) float
15. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Smoothing and withdrawal
Indentify Stakholders
Expectancy Theory
Fringe
16. 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.
Visionary
Assumptions
Critical Chain Method
Finish to Start (Most common)
17. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Change Control System
Concept of the Halo Theory
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Report Performance
18. 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
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Scatter Diagram
Just-in-time (JIT)
Summary Schdule
19. 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
Acquire Project Team
Variance Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
20. Communication that is not on the record
Monte Carlo Technique
Residual Risk
Unoffical Comm
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
21. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Collaborating
Autocratic
Resource breakdown structure
22. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Interactive Communication
Bill of materials
Sample Testing
The 100% Rule
23. 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
Risk Register
Referent Power
Pareto Diagram
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
24. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Reward Power
Fast Tracking
Risk Register
25. 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
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Referent Power
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
26. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Project management and quality
Develop Human Resource Plan
Variance Analysis
Contingency Reserves
27. 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
Influence/Impact Grid
Visionary
Work Authorization System
Monte Carlo Technique
28. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
LAG
Stakeholder Analysis
Report Performance
Forcasting
29. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Brainstorming
Judgemental methods
Power/ Interest Grid
Gold Plating
30. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Scatter Diagram
Mutual Exclusivity
Critical Path Method
Expectancy Theory
31. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Autocratic
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
A Lag
Activity List
32. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
n *(n -1) /2
Mgmt by Objectives
Work Package
33. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
ISO 3 Steps
Project Scope Statment
Salience Model
Run Chart
34. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Commincations Mgmt plan
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Expectancy Theory
35. 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
The 100% Rule
Work around
Organization Breakdown Structure
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
36. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Push Communications
Acquire Project Team
37. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Scatter Diagram
Life-cycle costing
Risk Triggers
Work Authorization System
38. 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.
Contraints
Risk Breakdown Structure
PMIS
Oganization breakdown structure
39. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Statistical Independence
Scope Baseline
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
40. 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
Sample Testing
Impact
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
41. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Scatter Diagram
Progress Report
Communications requirement analysis
Sample Testing
42. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Communications requirement analysis
Interactive Communication
Project Scope Statement
43. What is the number source of conflict?
Develop Project Team
Impact
Scheduling
90%
44. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Written or oral
Crashing
Residual Risk
45. 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.
Scope Baseline
Distribute Information
Verbal and Non-verbal
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
46. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Elements of scope
Indentify Stakholders
Progress Report
Monte Carlo Technique
47. 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
Contingency Reserves
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Causal/econometric
Pull Communication
48. Communication in writing or oral
Develop Human Resource Plan
Written or oral
Brainstorming
Scheduling
49. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Create WBS
Sigma
Risk Triggers
50. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Verbal and Non-verbal
Impact
3 Processes of quality managment
Unoffical Comm