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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Communication in writing or oral






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






3. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






7. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






8. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






9. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






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






11. Commuincation within the project






12. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






13. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






14. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






15. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






16. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






17. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






18. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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






22. Communication formula






23. Communication up and down the organization






24. 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






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






26. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






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






28. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






33. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






34. 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






35. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






37. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






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






39. 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






40. 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






41. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






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






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






44. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






45. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






46. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






47. 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






48. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






49. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






50. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications