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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Contraints
Push Communications
Resource leveling
2. 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
Scheduling
Sample Testing
Cost plus percentage of cost
Pull Communication
3. 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
External Comm
Free (or Total) float
Rolling Wave Planning
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
4. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Team development Life Cycle
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Report Performance
5. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Approved Change
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Critical Chain Method
Phase results are verified and documented
6. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
ISO 3 Steps
90%
Closing the project
Mutual Exclusivity
7. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
A Lag
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Delphi Technique
Finish to Finish
8. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
3 Processes of quality managment
Milestone list
Conformance
Free (or Total) float
9. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Perks
Breach
Forcasting
Autocratic
10. Communication with peers
Forcing
Pull Communication
Team development Life Cycle
Horizontal Comm
11. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Bottom-up Estimating
Indentify Stakholders
Project Slack
Finish to Finish
12. 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.
Visionary
n *(n -1) /2
Mutual Exclusivity
Project Scope Statement
13. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Withdrawing/Avoiding
A lead
External Comm
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
14. 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
Risk Triggers
Perks
Influence/Impact Grid
Milestone list
15. 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
Nonconformance
Design of Experiments
External Comm
16. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Project management and quality
3 Processes of quality managment
Indentify Risk
Confronting/ Problem solving
17. 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
The 100% Rule
PMIS
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
18. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
LAG
Delphi Technique
Crashing
Bill of materials
19. 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.
Resource leveling
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Work Authorization System
Pareto Diagram
20. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Level of Scope development
Director
Controlling communication
Facilitator
21. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Work Package
Bill of materials
Smoothing/Accommodating
Strong Matrix
22. One choice does not include any other choices
Contraints
Mutual Exclusivity
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Mgmt Reserves
23. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Time series method
ISO 3 Steps
Fringe
24. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Oganization breakdown structure
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Smoothing/Accommodating
Influence/Impact grid
25. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Risk Triggers
Work Authorization System
Project management and quality
26. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Project Selection
Work Package
Bottom-up Estimating
27. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Work Package
Work Authorization System
Reward Power
Director
28. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Push Communications
Breach
Nonconformance
Acquire Project Team
29. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Charismatic
Change Control Board
Visionary
30. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
External Contraints
Cost of Quality
Acquire Project Team
Forcing
31. 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
Contraints
Elements of scope
Start to Finsh
Run of Seven Rule
32. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Penalty Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Indentify Stakholders
33. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Forcasting
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
6 sigma
Indentify Risk
34. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
A Lag
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Closing the project
Influence/Impact grid
35. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Controlling communication
3 Processes of quality managment
Monte Carlo Technique
Reward Power
36. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Report Performance
External Contraints
Salience Model
Staffing Mgmt Plan
37. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Plan Communication
Mgmt by Objectives
The 100% Rule
Secondary Risk
38. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Written or oral
Critical Path Method
Scatter Diagram
39. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
LAG
Interactive Communication
Concept of the Halo Theory
Demings' 14 principles of Management
40. 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.
Perks
Commincations Mgmt plan
Root cause analysis
Push Communications
41. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Salience Model
Develop Project Charter
Plan Risk Mgmt
42. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Penalty Power
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Compromising
43. 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
Risk breakdown structure
Manage Project Team
Influence/Impact Grid
Charateristics of a project
44. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Resource breakdown structure
Forcasting
Bill of materials
45. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Gold Plating
Business Risk
Nonconformance
Smoothing and withdrawal
46. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Delphi Technique
Facilitator
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
47. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Autocratic
Change Control Board
Project management and quality
Indentify Stakholders
48. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
ISO 3 Steps
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Strong Matrix
Fringe
49. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Implied warranty
LAG
Mgmt Reserves
Project Selection
50. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Communications requirement analysis
Charateristics of a project
External Comm