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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






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






3. Communication in writing or oral






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






5. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






6. 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






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






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






9. 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






10. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






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






12. What is the output of Identify Risk?






13. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project






20. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






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






22. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






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






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






25. Communication with peers






26. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






34. Commuincation within the project






35. 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






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






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






38. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






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






40. 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






41. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






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






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






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






45. 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)






46. 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.






47. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.






48. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






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






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