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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






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






4. Communication in writing or oral






5. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.






6. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






7. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






8. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






9. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






10. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.






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






12. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






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


14. 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






15. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






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






17. What is the number source of conflict?






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






19. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






20. 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.






21. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project






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






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. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






25. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






26. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






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






28. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






29. 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.






30. 3 main components of the communication model






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






32. Difference between internal and external risk






33. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






34. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






35. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






40. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






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






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






43. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






44. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






45. A milestone has a ______duration






46. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.






47. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






48. What is the output of Identify Risk?






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






50. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility