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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Zero duration
Bill of materials
Mgmt Reserves
2. 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
Visionary
Life-cycle costing
Design of Experiments
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
3. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Risk breakdown structure
Contingency Reserves
4. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Controlling communication
Coaching
5. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Autocratic
Facilitator
Mediator
6. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Statistical Independence
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Risk Register
Progress Report
7. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Contingency Reserves
Residual Risk
Referent Power
8. 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
Plan Communication
Start to Start
Make money and to protect the public
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.
Plan Communication
People responsible for quality
Salience Model
Risk breakdown structure
10. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Work Authorization System
PMIS
Nonconformance
Organization Breakdown Structure
11. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Run Chart
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Causal/econometric
12. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Work Authorization System
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Just-in-time (JIT)
13. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Work Package
Closing the project
Make money and to protect the public
Life-cycle costing
14. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Milestone list
Controlling communication
Judgemental methods
Smoothing and withdrawal
15. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
RAM charts
Risk Register
Contingency Reserves
Confronting/ Problem solving
16. What is the number source of conflict?
Total Quality Management TQM
Perks
Scheduling
Impact
17. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost of Quality
Compromising
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Cost plus percentage of cost
18. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.
Risk Owner
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Assumptions
Forcing
19. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Facilitator
Judgemental methods
Benchmarking
20. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Benchmarking
Sample Testing
Impact
Salience Model
21. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Scope Baseline
Salience Model
Withdrawing/Avoiding
22. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Resource breakdown structure
Phase results are verified and documented
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Controlling communication
23. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Influence/Impact grid
Develop Human Resource Plan
Closing the project
24. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Mediator
Fringe
Contingency Reserves
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
25. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Residual Risk
Forcing
Causal/econometric
Charateristics of a project
26. 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
Charismatic
Contingency Reserves
Work Authorization System
Staffing Mgmt Plan
27. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Commincations Mgmt plan
Time series method
Distribute Information
Plan Communication
28. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Requested Changes
Compromising
Coaching
29. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Activity List
Verbal and Non-verbal
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Influence/Impact grid
30. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Milestone Schedule
Judgemental methods
Project Scope Statment
31. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Finish to Start (Most common)
Work around
32. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Create WBS
Interactive Communication
Project Scope Statment
33. One choice does not include any other choices
Benchmarking
Work Authorization System
Internal comm
Mutual Exclusivity
34. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Bottom-up estimating
Charismatic
Causal/econometric
Crashing
35. 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.
Run Chart
Activity List
Manage Project Team
Design of Experiments
36. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Acquire Project Team
Cost plus percentage of cost
Residual Risk
Verbal and Non-verbal
37. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Triggers
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
38. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Variance Analysis
Pull Communication
Bottom-up estimating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
39. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Risk Owner
Elements of scope
Statistical Independence
Commincations Mgmt plan
40. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Level of Scope development
Facilitator
Project management and quality
Resource breakdown structure
41. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Assumptions
Time series method
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Monte Carlo Technique
42. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Communications requirement analysis
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Oganization breakdown structure
Scheduling
43. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Visionary
Requested Changes
Penalty Power
Expert Power
44. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Make money and to protect the public
Written or oral
RAM charts
Residual Risk
45. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Project Slack
Benchmarking
Project Scope Statment
46. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Business Risk
Contingency Reserves
Brainstorming
47. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Power/Influence Grid
Monte Carlo Technique
Manage Project Team
Summary Schdule
48. 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
Progress Report
Organization Breakdown Structure
Visionary
Scatter Diagram
49. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Facilitator
Perks
Plan Risk Mgmt
50. 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
Develop Project Team
Director
Just-in-time (JIT)
Vertical Comm