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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Statistical Independence
Design of Experiments
Charateristics of a project
Work Package
2. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Cost of Quality
PMIS
Make money and to protect the public
3. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Interactive Communication
Forcasting
Benchmarking
Change Control System
4. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
Scatter Diagram
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Influence/Impact grid
5. 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
Design of Experiments
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Compromising
6. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
A lead
Staffing Mgmt Plan
FORMAL Communication
Team development Life Cycle
7. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Finish to Start (Most common)
Sample Testing
Commincations Mgmt plan
Progress Report
8. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Change Control Board
Controlling communication
Reward Power
9. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Project Selection
Milestone list
Push Communications
Expectancy Theory
10. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Vertical Comm
Run of Seven Rule
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Brainstorming
11. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Plan Risk Mgmt
Controlling communication
Scope Baseline
Unoffical Comm
12. 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
Work Authorization System
Facilitator
Distribute Information
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
13. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Manage Project Team
Start to Start
The 100% Rule
External Contraints
14. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Risk Owner
Power/Influence Grid
Horizontal Comm
15. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Run Chart
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Progress Report
Level of Scope development
16. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Mediator
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Rolling Wave Planning
Plan Communication
17. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Push Communications
Horizontal Comm
Concept of the Halo Theory
18. 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)
Gold Plating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Critical Path Method
Benchmarking
19. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
External Comm
Penalty Power
Distribute Information
20. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Controlling communication
Secondary Risk
Distribute Information
21. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Scheduling
Critical Chain Method
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Rolling Wave Planning
22. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Commincations Mgmt plan
Change Control System
Team development Life Cycle
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
23. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Cost of Quality
Power/Influence Grid
Project Selection
Brainstorming
24. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Plan Risk Mgmt
90%
Progress Report
Level of Scope development
25. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Finish to Finish
26. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
90%
Internal comm
Start to Finsh
Risk Breakdown Structure
27. 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
Run of Seven Rule
A lead
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Work Authorization System
28. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Activity List
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Resource breakdown structure
Staffing Mgmt Plan
29. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Resource leveling
Commincations Mgmt plan
Rolling Wave Planning
30. 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
Approved Change
Develop Human Resource Plan
Charateristics of a project
Milestone Schedule
31. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Sigma
Forcing
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
32. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Start to Finsh
Coaching
Written or oral
33. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Smoothing/Accommodating
Risk breakdown structure
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Summary Schdule
34. 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
Time series method
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Crashing
Project Scope Statment
35. 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
RAM charts
Formal Power
Resource leveling
Stakeholder Analysis
36. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Internal comm
Assumptions
Activity List
37. 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
Variance Analysis
Organization Breakdown Structure
Project Scope Statement
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
38. 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
Vertical Comm
Stakeholder Analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Internal comm
39. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Closing the project
Project Scope Statement
Phase results are verified and documented
40. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Distribute Information
People responsible for quality
Strong Matrix
Report Performance
41. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Risk breakdown structure
6 sigma
Assumptions
42. 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.
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Resource breakdown structure
Power/ Interest Grid
Forcing
43. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Crashing
Power/Influence Grid
Influence/Impact grid
Gold Plating
44. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project
Charismatic
Plan Risk Mgmt
RAM charts
Coaching
45. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Sigma
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Status Reports
46. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Vertical Comm
Risk Register
Fringe
47. 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
A lead
Emphasis on defining scope
Milestone Schedule
48. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Risk Owner
Influence/Impact Grid
Plan Communication
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
49. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Just-in-time (JIT)
Team development Life Cycle
50. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Forcasting
Referent Power
Concept of the Halo Theory
Root cause analysis