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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






2. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






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






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






8. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






9. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






10. Shows the type of resources broken down






11. Communication that is not on the record






12. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






20. 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)






21. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






22. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






23. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






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






25. 3 main components of the communication model






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






27. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






28. 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






29. 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






30. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






31. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






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






33. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






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






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






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






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






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






40. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






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






42. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






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






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






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






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






47. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






48. 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






49. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






50. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function