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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Shows the type of resources broken down






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






3. 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






4. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






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






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






7. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






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






9. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






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






17. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n






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






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






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. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






23. 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






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






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






26. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






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






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






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






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






36. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






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






38. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






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






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






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






42. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






43. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






44. 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.






45. Communication that is not on the record






46. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






47. 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






48. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






49. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






50. 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.