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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Project Slack
Develop Project Team
Work Authorization System
Free (or Total) float
2. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Finish to Start (Most common)
Project management and quality
Mediator
Pure Risk
3. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Forcing
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Secondary Risk
4. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Acquire Project Team
Emphasis on defining scope
Nonconformance
Pareto Diagram
5. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Design of Experiments
Strong Matrix
Delphi Technique
6. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Crashing
Contraints
Nonconformance
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
7. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur
Summary Schdule
Statistical Independence
Project Selection
Run Chart
8. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Root cause analysis
Written or oral
Just-in-time (JIT)
9. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Coaching
10. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Scatter Diagram
Work around
Expert Power
Start to Start
11. Communication up and down the organization
Visionary
Develop Project Charter
Risk Owner
Vertical Comm
12. Communication that is not on the record
Facilitator
Unoffical Comm
Contingency Reserves
Root cause analysis
13. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Status Reports
Residual Risk
A lead
Risk Triggers
14. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Time series method
Facilitator
The 100% Rule
ISO 3 Steps
15. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Demings' 14 principles of Management
A lead
FORMAL Communication
Risk breakdown structure
16. 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.
Activity List
Code of Accounts
Assumptions
Autocratic
17. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Residual Risk
A lead
Forcing
Change Control System
18. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Facilitator
The 100% Rule
90%
Analogous or Top down Estimating
19. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Assumptions
Scope Baseline
Collaborating
20. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Push Communications
Phase results are verified and documented
Schedules - project priorities - resources
21. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Crashing
Forcasting
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Scope Baseline
22. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Sigma
Milestone Schedule
Indentify Stakholders
Activity List
23. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Total Quality Management TQM
Contraints
24. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Acquire Project Team
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Collaborating
25. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Expert Power
ISO 3 Steps
Bill of materials
Withdrawing/Avoiding
26. 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.
Run of Seven Rule
Referent Power
Written or oral
Influence/Impact grid
27. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Summary Schdule
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Expert Power
28. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Elements of scope
Sample Testing
Variance Analysis
29. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Bottom-up Estimating
Judgemental methods
Team development Life Cycle
Design of Experiments
30. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Risk Register
Indentify Risk
Contraints
Scatter Diagram
31. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Hygiene factors
Code of Accounts
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
32. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Scatter Diagram
Benchmarking
Rolling Wave Planning
33. One choice does not include any other choices
Elements of scope
Mutual Exclusivity
Referent Power
Summary Schdule
34. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Risk Owner
Rolling Wave Planning
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Mutual Exclusivity
35. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Forcasting
Make money and to protect the public
36. 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.
Mutual Exclusivity
Team development Life Cycle
Plan Communication
Develop Human Resource Plan
37. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Progress Report
Director
Smoothing/Accommodating
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
38. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Milestone list
Director
Interactive Communication
Requested Changes
39. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Brainstorming
Smoothing/Accommodating
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Create WBS
40. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
A lead
Vertical Comm
Resource breakdown structure
Develop Project Team
41. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Run Chart
Compromising
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
42. A milestone has a ______duration
Bottom-up estimating
Zero duration
Cost of Quality
Sample Testing
43. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Delphi Technique
Causal/econometric
3 Processes of quality managment
n *(n -1) /2
44. 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
Pareto Diagram
Sigma
Team development Life Cycle
Visionary
45. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Progress Report
Power/Influence Grid
Cost of Quality
46. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Emphasis on defining scope
Risk Triggers
Project Scope Statement
Zero duration
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.
Delphi Technique
Visionary
Charateristics of a project
6 sigma
48. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Crashing
Judgemental methods
Demings' 14 principles of Management
49. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Work Authorization System
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Variance Analysis
Push Communications
50. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Run Chart
Smoothing/Accommodating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Critical Chain Method