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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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2. 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






3. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






4. 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






5. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






6. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars






7. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






8. 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






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






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






11. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






12. 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






13. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






14. 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






15. 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






16. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






17. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






18. 3 main components of the communication model






19. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n






20. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






21. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






22. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






23. 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.






24. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






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






26. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






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






28. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






29. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






30. 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






31. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






32. 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






33. Difference between internal and external risk






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

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35. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






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






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






38. Communication that is not on the record






39. Shows the type of resources broken down






40. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






41. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil






42. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






43. 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






44. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.






45. 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






46. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






47. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






48. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






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






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