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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Breach
Risk Owner
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Root cause analysis
2. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Horizontal Comm
Implied warranty
Business Risk
Plan Risk Mgmt
3. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
FORMAL Communication
A lead
Judgemental methods
4. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Benchmarking
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
5. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
External Contraints
Zero duration
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
6. 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
Mediator
Work Package
Offical
Create WBS
7. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
External Comm
Judgemental methods
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Finish to Finish
8. Communication with peers
Commincations Mgmt plan
Director
Project management and quality
Horizontal Comm
9. 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
RAM charts
Cost plus percentage of cost
Sigma
10. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Facilitator
Rolling Wave Planning
Plan Risk Mgmt
11. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
External Contraints
Penalty Power
Communications requirement analysis
Project Selection
12. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Zero duration
Work Package
Approved Change
Salience Model
13. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Brainstorming
Hygiene factors
Collaborating
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
14. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Project management and quality
Risk Breakdown Structure
People responsible for quality
Cost plus percentage of cost
15. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Bottom-up estimating
Make money and to protect the public
Smoothing and withdrawal
16. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Causal/econometric
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Resource breakdown structure
The 100% Rule
17. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Salience Model
Make money and to protect the public
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Controlling communication
18. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Develop Human Resource Plan
Bottom-up Estimating
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.
Plan Communication
Manage Project Team
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
20. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Unoffical Comm
Secondary Risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Level of Scope development
21. One choice does not include any other choices
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Mutual Exclusivity
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Risk breakdown structure
22. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Create WBS
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Sigma
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
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
Project Scope Statment
Finish to Start (Most common)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Benchmarking
24. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Pareto Diagram
Project Slack
Power/Influence Grid
Manage Project Team
25. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Work Authorization System
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Mgmt Reserves
Scope Baseline
26. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Finish to Finish
Communications requirement analysis
Make money and to protect the public
Contingency Reserves
27. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Scatter Diagram
Work Authorization System
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
28. 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
Start to Start
Finish to Finish
Plan Communication
29. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Reward Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Breach
Resource leveling
30. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Create WBS
Vertical Comm
Crashing
Confronting/ Problem solving
31. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem
Activity List
Develop Project Charter
Smoothing/Accommodating
Pareto Diagram
32. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Indentify Risk
Power/Influence Grid
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Pull Communication
33. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Start to Start
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
34. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Milestone list
Finish to Finish
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Activity List
35. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
A lead
36. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Total Quality Management TQM
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Progress Report
Schedules - project priorities - resources
37. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Salience Model
Reward Power
Resource breakdown structure
38. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Total Quality Management TQM
Confronting/ Problem solving
Cost plus percentage of cost
Plan Risk Mgmt
39. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Resource breakdown structure
Offical
Perks
Contingency Reserves
40. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Just-in-time (JIT)
Root cause analysis
Run of Seven Rule
41. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Bottom-up estimating
Impact
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
42. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Reward Power
Report Performance
Project Selection
Plan Risk Mgmt
43. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Penalty Power
Conformance
A Lag
Staffing Mgmt Plan
44. 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.
Design of Experiments
Start to Start
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Written or oral
45. 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
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Hygiene factors
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Rolling Wave Planning
46. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Causal/econometric
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Work Authorization System
Fringe
47. 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
Power/ Interest Grid
RAM charts
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Sample Testing
48. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro
Develop Project Team
Rolling Wave Planning
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Requested Changes
49. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Perks
Work Authorization System
Project Scope Statement
Visionary
50. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Crashing
Milestone list