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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
Life-cycle costing
Work Package
Indentify Stakholders
Mgmt by Objectives
3. 3 main components of the communication model
Nonconformance
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Residual Risk
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
Milestone Schedule
Resource breakdown structure
Contingency Reserves
Horizontal Comm
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
Charateristics of a project
Root cause analysis
Phase results are verified and documented
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
6. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Contingency Reserves
Plan Risk Mgmt
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Oganization breakdown structure
A Lag
8. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Causal/econometric
Hygiene factors
Controlling communication
Life-cycle costing
9. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Variance Analysis
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
10. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Bill of materials
Make money and to protect the public
11. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Scatter Diagram
Charismatic
Scope Baseline
Monte Carlo Technique
12. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Zero duration
Business Risk
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
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.
Forcing
Closing the project
Assumptions
Milestone Schedule
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
Milestone Schedule
Project Selection
Nonconformance
RAM charts
15. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Risk Triggers
Phase results are verified and documented
Indentify Risk
Pull Communication
16. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Assumptions
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Strong Matrix
Implied warranty
17. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Work around
Compromising
Scheduling
Fringe
18. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Visionary
Project Slack
Monte Carlo Technique
19. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Work Package
Charateristics of a project
Project management and quality
20. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Stakeholder Analysis
Pareto Diagram
Withdrawing/Avoiding
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
Crashing
Indentify Risk
Rolling Wave Planning
Root cause analysis
22. Shows the type of resources broken down
Bill of materials
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Forcasting
Resource breakdown structure
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
Requested Changes
ISO 3 Steps
Director
Pareto Diagram
24. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Power/Influence Grid
Written or oral
Delphi Technique
Risk Register
25. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Nonconformance
Hygiene factors
Implied warranty
FORMAL Communication
26. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Nonconformance
Crashing
Sigma
Project Scope Statement
27. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
FORMAL Communication
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Organization Breakdown Structure
Cost plus percentage of cost
28. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Statistical Independence
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Bottom-up Estimating
Fringe
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
Visionary
Team development Life Cycle
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
External Contraints
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
Mediator
Verbal and Non-verbal
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Judgemental methods
31. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Cost of Quality
Pure Risk
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Milestone list
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.
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Distribute Information
Design of Experiments
Develop Project Team
33. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
A lead
Status Reports
Perks
Scatter Diagram
34. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Breach
Penalty Power
Oganization breakdown structure
Reward Power
35. One choice does not include any other choices
Mutual Exclusivity
Milestone list
Hygiene factors
Nonconformance
36. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Work around
Requested Changes
Rolling Wave Planning
PMIS
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
Work around
PMIS
Run Chart
Indentify Risk
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.
Requested Changes
PMIS
Indentify Risk
Design of Experiments
39. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Start to Finsh
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Facilitator
Activity List
40. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Manage Project Team
Coaching
Change Control System
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Stakeholder Analysis
Causal/econometric
Commincations Mgmt plan
42. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Influence/Impact grid
Plan Risk Mgmt
External Comm
Sample Testing
43. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Work Authorization System
Create WBS
Pareto Diagram
44. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Total Quality Management TQM
LAG
Oganization breakdown structure
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
45. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Power/Influence Grid
Implied warranty
3 Processes of quality managment
Contraints
46. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Charismatic
Strong Matrix
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
6 sigma
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
Develop Project Team
Change Control Board
Design of Experiments
Project management and quality
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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Work Authorization System
Reward Power
Mutual Exclusivity
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)
Statistical Independence
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Penalty Power
Critical Path Method
50. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Project Slack
Develop Human Resource Plan
Closing the project
Mutual Exclusivity