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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Run of Seven Rule
Expectancy Theory
Strong Matrix
Project Slack
2. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Elements of scope
Report Performance
Requested Changes
ISO 3 Steps
3. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Referent Power
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Life-cycle costing
A Lag
4. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Free (or Total) float
Charateristics of a project
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
5. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Requested Changes
Time series method
Pure Risk
Mediator
6. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
People responsible for quality
RAM charts
Project management and quality
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
7. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Bottom-up estimating
External Contraints
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Run Chart
8. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Critical Chain Method
Causal/econometric
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Nonconformance
9. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Penalty Power
Critical Chain Method
Hygiene factors
10. 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
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Finish to Finish
Root cause analysis
11. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
Pure Risk
Confronting/ Problem solving
Formal Power
RAM charts
12. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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13. A milestone has a ______duration
Create WBS
Zero duration
Design of Experiments
Critical Chain Method
14. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Resource leveling
Pareto Diagram
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Risk Register
15. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Project Scope Statment
Power/Influence Grid
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Judgemental methods
16. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/Influence Grid
A Lag
Power/ Interest Grid
Forcasting
17. 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
Gold Plating
Root cause analysis
Just-in-time (JIT)
90%
18. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Status Reports
Milestone list
Charismatic
Change Control System
19. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution
Influence/Impact Grid
Rolling Wave Planning
External Comm
Penalty Power
20. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Smoothing/Accommodating
Rolling Wave Planning
Contingency Reserves
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
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.
Pull Communication
Sigma
Closing the project
Scope Baseline
22. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Confronting/ Problem solving
Risk breakdown structure
The 100% Rule
Assumptions
23. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
24. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Visionary
Risk Breakdown Structure
Judgemental methods
Make money and to protect the public
25. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Status Reports
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
PMIS
26. 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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Change Control System
27. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Finish to Finish
Run of Seven Rule
Work around
Develop Human Resource Plan
28. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Bottom-up estimating
A lead
RAM charts
Commincations Mgmt plan
29. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
A Lag
Start to Finsh
Referent Power
30. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Crashing
Life-cycle costing
Director
Stakeholder Analysis
31. 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
Develop Human Resource Plan
Pareto Diagram
Coaching
Schedules - project priorities - resources
32. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Project Scope Statement
Business Risk
Charismatic
33. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
A Lag
Design of Experiments
Hygiene factors
Expectancy Theory
34. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
A Lag
Expectancy Theory
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Life-cycle costing
35. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Life-cycle costing
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Charismatic
Phase results are verified and documented
36. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Concept of the Halo Theory
Confronting/ Problem solving
Project Slack
Risk breakdown structure
37. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
People responsible for quality
Sigma
Autocratic
38. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Resource leveling
Charismatic
39. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Plan Risk Mgmt
Mgmt Reserves
Life-cycle costing
Zero duration
40. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Referent Power
Total Quality Management TQM
Controlling communication
Push Communications
41. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Business Risk
RAM charts
Work Package
42. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Statistical Independence
Cost of Quality
Milestone list
43. Communication up and down the organization
Vertical Comm
Written or oral
Milestone list
Time series method
44. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Project Scope Statment
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Controlling communication
Work Authorization System
45. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Start to Finsh
Activity List
Distribute Information
Residual Risk
46. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Oganization breakdown structure
Salience Model
The 100% Rule
Report Performance
47. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Delphi Technique
Perks
Implied warranty
48. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
Project Slack
Bottom-up estimating
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
49. 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
Resource leveling
Risk Register
Perks
Organization Breakdown Structure
50. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Emphasis on defining scope
Milestone list
Commincations Mgmt plan
Withdrawing/Avoiding