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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






2. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






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






4. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






5. 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






6. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






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






8. Shows the type of resources broken down






9. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






10. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






11. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






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






13. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






14. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






15. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones






16. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






17. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






18. 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






19. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






20. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






21. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






25. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






26. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






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






28. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






29. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






30. 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






31. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






32. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






33. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






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

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35. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






36. 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






37. One choice does not include any other choices






38. 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






39. Commuincation within the project






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






41. 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






42. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






43. Communication with peers






44. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






45. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel






46. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






47. 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)






48. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






49. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






50. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.