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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Rolling Wave Planning
Influence/Impact grid
6 sigma
2. 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
Finish to Start (Most common)
Assumptions
Pure Risk
Resource leveling
3. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Elements of scope
Activity List
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Emphasis on defining scope
4. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Referent Power
Risk Register
Indentify Risk
Mutual Exclusivity
5. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Life-cycle costing
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Milestone list
Manage Project Team
6. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Team development Life Cycle
Cost of Quality
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Residual Risk
7. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Secondary Risk
Expert Power
Analogous or Top down Estimating
8. 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.
LAG
Cost plus percentage of cost
FORMAL Communication
Assumptions
9. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Power/Influence Grid
Fast Tracking
10. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Make money and to protect the public
Work Authorization System
Risk breakdown structure
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
11. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Code of Accounts
Breach
Reward Power
Root cause analysis
12. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Milestone list
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Contingency Reserves
Root cause analysis
13. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Elements of scope
Rolling Wave Planning
Start to Start
14. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Smoothing and withdrawal
A lead
Mgmt by Objectives
Variance Analysis
15. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Scatter Diagram
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Offical
Resource breakdown structure
16. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Triggers
Director
Make money and to protect the public
17. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Delphi Technique
Concept of the Halo Theory
Develop Human Resource Plan
18. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Nonconformance
Expectancy Theory
Withdrawing/Avoiding
19. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Root cause analysis
Forcasting
The 100% Rule
20. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Perks
Cost plus percentage of cost
Just-in-time (JIT)
Mgmt by Objectives
21. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Sample Testing
Free (or Total) float
Visionary
Progress Report
22. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Communications requirement analysis
Sigma
Project management and quality
Push Communications
23. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Sigma
Stakeholder Analysis
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
24. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Finish to Finish
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Change Control System
Cost plus percentage of cost
25. 3 main components of the communication model
Work around
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Statistical Independence
26. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Oganization breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Fast Tracking
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
27. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Secondary Risk
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Penalty Power
28. 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
Compromising
Time series method
Pure Risk
External Comm
29. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Autocratic
Smoothing and withdrawal
Risk Owner
Start to Start
30. Communication that is not on the record
Unoffical Comm
Resource leveling
Emphasis on defining scope
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
31. 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
Scheduling
Run Chart
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Project Scope Statment
32. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Conformance
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
PMIS
Code of Accounts
33. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Coaching
Critical Path Method
Make money and to protect the public
34. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Approved Change
Pull Communication
Scope Baseline
35. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
People responsible for quality
Indentify Stakholders
Salience Model
Monte Carlo Technique
36. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Summary Schdule
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
37. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Risk Triggers
Crashing
Brainstorming
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
38. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Indentify Risk
Contraints
Contingency Reserves
Secondary Risk
39. 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
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Push Communications
Project Scope Statment
FORMAL Communication
40. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Risk Register
Strong Matrix
Free (or Total) float
41. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Start to Start
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Distribute Information
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
42. 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.
Forcasting
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Plan Communication
Confronting/ Problem solving
43. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Mgmt Reserves
Scheduling
Perks
Rolling Wave Planning
44. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Mgmt by Objectives
Develop Project Team
Contraints
45. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Contingency Reserves
Verbal and Non-verbal
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
46. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Contraints
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Time series method
Communications requirement analysis
47. 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
The 100% Rule
Approved Change
Free (or Total) float
Compromising
48. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Charismatic
Judgemental methods
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
49. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Risk Register
Penalty Power
Influence/Impact grid
Unoffical Comm
50. 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
Report Performance
Forcing
Risk breakdown structure
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