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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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2. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






3. 3 main components of the communication model






4. 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






5. 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






6. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






7. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






8. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






9. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






10. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






11. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






12. Difference between internal and external risk






13. 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.






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






19. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






21. 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






22. Shows the type of resources broken down






23. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem






24. What is the output of Identify Risk?






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






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






27. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






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






29. 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






30. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers






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






32. 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.






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






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






35. One choice does not include any other choices






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






37. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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






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






43. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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)






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