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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






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






3. What is the output of Identify Risk?






4. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






5. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






6. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






7. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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






12. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






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






14. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






15. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






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






17. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






18. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






19. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






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






21. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






22. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






23. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






24. 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






25. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






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






27. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






28. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






29. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






30. 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.






31. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






32. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






33. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






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






35. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






36. 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






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






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






39. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






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






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






42. 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.






43. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






48. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






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






50. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






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