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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Smoothing and withdrawal
2. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
FORMAL Communication
Benchmarking
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Concept of the Halo Theory
3. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Oganization breakdown structure
Emphasis on defining scope
Make money and to protect the public
Smoothing/Accommodating
4. 3 main components of the communication model
Sample Testing
Level of Scope development
Vertical Comm
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
5. 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
Salience Model
Contingency Reserves
Summary Schdule
Influence/Impact grid
6. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Mediator
Reward Power
Start to Start
7. Communication up and down the organization
Team development Life Cycle
Vertical Comm
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Manage Project Team
8. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Brainstorming
Activity List
Perks
9. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Closing the project
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
10. 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.
Sample Testing
Design of Experiments
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Milestone Schedule
11. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Sigma
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Judgemental methods
Pure Risk
12. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Horizontal Comm
Closing the project
Influence/Impact Grid
Run of Seven Rule
13. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Internal comm
Sigma
Bottom-up estimating
14. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Change Control Board
Contraints
Salience Model
15. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Summary Schdule
Residual Risk
Work Package
Plan Risk Mgmt
16. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
17. 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
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Smoothing and withdrawal
Staffing Mgmt Plan
18. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Milestone list
Oganization breakdown structure
ISO 3 Steps
Activity List
19. 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.
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Start to Finsh
Plan Communication
Controlling communication
20. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Work Authorization System
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Conformance
Charismatic
21. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Change Control System
Implied warranty
External Contraints
22. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Run Chart
Controlling communication
Mediator
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
23. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Change Control System
Time series method
Risk Register
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
24. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Offical
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Confronting/ Problem solving
Develop Human Resource Plan
25. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Risk Owner
Finish to Start (Most common)
Plan Communication
Mutual Exclusivity
26. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Distribute Information
Team development Life Cycle
Scope Baseline
Indentify Stakholders
27. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Develop Project Charter
Collaborating
6 sigma
Confronting/ Problem solving
28. 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
Create WBS
Sample Testing
Interactive Communication
Implied warranty
29. Communication with peers
Horizontal Comm
Design of Experiments
Assumptions
ISO 3 Steps
30. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
FORMAL Communication
Free (or Total) float
31. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Approved Change
Plan Risk Mgmt
Emphasis on defining scope
Horizontal Comm
32. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Fast Tracking
Bottom-up estimating
Pareto Diagram
Life-cycle costing
33. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Compromising
Work Authorization System
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
34. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Cost plus percentage of cost
Smoothing/Accommodating
Activity List
Horizontal Comm
35. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Salience Model
Compromising
Risk Owner
36. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Run Chart
People responsible for quality
Implied warranty
37. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Sigma
Manage Project Team
Change Control Board
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
38. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
External Comm
Visionary
Design of Experiments
Scatter Diagram
39. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Residual Risk
Progress Report
Time series method
Rolling Wave Planning
40. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Benchmarking
Confronting/ Problem solving
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Delphi Technique
41. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Smoothing/Accommodating
Project management and quality
Report Performance
Project Slack
42. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues
Autocratic
Contraints
Milestone Schedule
Power/ Interest Grid
43. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
n *(n -1) /2
Progress Report
A lead
Penalty Power
44. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Salience Model
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Root cause analysis
Progress Report
45. 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.
Sigma
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Forcing
Influence/Impact grid
46. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Life-cycle costing
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
47. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Secondary Risk
Forcasting
48. 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
Distribute Information
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Mediator
Confronting/ Problem solving
49. 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
Finish to Start (Most common)
A Lag
Push Communications
Pull Communication
50. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Concept of the Halo Theory
Salience Model
Work Authorization System