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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






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






3. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






4. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






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






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. 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






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






9. A milestone has a ______duration






10. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






11. What is the output of Identify Risk?






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






13. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






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






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






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






18. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






19. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






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






21. 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






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






23. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






24. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






25. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






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






27. 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.






28. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






29. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






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






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






33. One choice does not include any other choices






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






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






36. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






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






38. 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.






39. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






40. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation






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






42. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)






43. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






48. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






49. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






50. 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