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PMP: Project Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






6. 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






7. 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






8. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






9. A milestone has a ______duration






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






11. 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.






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






13. Communication with peers






14. 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






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






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.






17. What is the output of Identify Risk?






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






19. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






20. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






21. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






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






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






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






25. 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






26. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues






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






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






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






30. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






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






36. 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






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






38. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






39. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






40. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






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






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






43. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






44. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






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






46. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






47. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






48. 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)






49. 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






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