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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






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






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






4. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






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






6. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






11. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






18. 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)






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






23. 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






24. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






25. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution






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






27. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






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






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






30. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






37. Communication up and down the organization






38. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






39. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






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






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






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






43. Communication formula






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






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






46. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






47. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






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






49. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






50. 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