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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Gold Plating
Start to Finsh
2. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Life-cycle costing
Team development Life Cycle
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Offical
3. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Elements of scope
Resource breakdown structure
Contingency Reserves
Salience Model
4. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Scatter Diagram
Milestone Schedule
Penalty Power
Manage Project Team
5. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Power/Influence Grid
Resource breakdown structure
6. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Fringe
Secondary Risk
Progress Report
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
7. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Milestone Schedule
Commincations Mgmt plan
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Report Performance
8. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Breach
External Contraints
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Run Chart
9. 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.
Status Reports
External Contraints
PMIS
Plan Communication
10. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Expert Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
11. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Formal Power
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Free (or Total) float
Start to Start
12. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Project management and quality
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Oganization breakdown structure
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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Risk Breakdown Structure
Risk Owner
Coaching
14. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Phase results are verified and documented
Pure Risk
Project management and quality
15. 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
Mgmt by Objectives
Approved Change
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
16. One choice does not include any other choices
Emphasis on defining scope
External Comm
Cost of Quality
Mutual Exclusivity
17. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Implied warranty
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Risk Register
Cost of Quality
18. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Level of Scope development
Reward Power
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
19. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Total Quality Management TQM
Run of Seven Rule
20. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Contraints
Reward Power
Charateristics of a project
Acquire Project Team
21. 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
Status Reports
Forcasting
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Coaching
22. 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.
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Assumptions
Visionary
Crashing
23. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Risk Owner
Formal Power
24. 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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25. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Change Control Board
Closing the project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
26. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
External Contraints
ISO 3 Steps
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Make money and to protect the public
27. 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
Confronting/ Problem solving
Forcasting
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Scope Statment
28. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Resource breakdown structure
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Monte Carlo Technique
Mutual Exclusivity
29. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Contraints
Implied warranty
Project Scope Statment
30. Communication with peers
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Horizontal Comm
Project management and quality
31. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Pareto Diagram
Rolling Wave Planning
Work Authorization System
32. A milestone has a ______duration
Zero duration
Code of Accounts
Verbal and Non-verbal
Expert Power
33. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
34. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
The 100% Rule
Finish to Finish
Verbal and Non-verbal
35. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Elements of scope
Controlling communication
6 sigma
Cost plus percentage of cost
36. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Code of Accounts
Change Control Board
Stakeholder Analysis
Critical Chain Method
37. 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
Total Quality Management TQM
Rolling Wave Planning
Summary Schdule
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
38. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Schedules - project priorities - resources
3 Processes of quality managment
Bottom-up Estimating
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
39. 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
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
6 sigma
Run of Seven Rule
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
40. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Crashing
Root cause analysis
Milestone list
41. Shows the type of resources broken down
Strong Matrix
Fast Tracking
Monte Carlo Technique
Resource breakdown structure
42. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Expert Power
Free (or Total) float
Secondary Risk
43. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Fast Tracking
Smoothing/Accommodating
Pure Risk
Collaborating
44. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Verbal and Non-verbal
Project management and quality
Change Control Board
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
45. 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
Conformance
Commincations Mgmt plan
Milestone Schedule
Smoothing and withdrawal
46. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
6 sigma
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Start to Start
47. 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
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
RAM charts
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Approved Change
48. 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
Closing the project
Coaching
Scheduling
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
49. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Project Scope Statement
Develop Human Resource Plan
Code of Accounts
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
50. 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
Written or oral
Root cause analysis
Compromising
Withdrawing/Avoiding