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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Smoothing/Accommodating
Total Quality Management TQM
Internal comm
Indentify Risk
2. A milestone has a ______duration
Mgmt Reserves
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Zero duration
Milestone list
3. What is the number source of conflict?
Run Chart
Acquire Project Team
Scheduling
Risk breakdown structure
4. Communication that is not on the record
Bottom-up Estimating
Unoffical Comm
PMIS
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
5. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A lead
A Lag
Verbal and Non-verbal
Organization Breakdown Structure
6. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Develop Human Resource Plan
Root cause analysis
Mgmt Reserves
7. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
External Comm
Impact
Communications requirement analysis
8. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Mutual Exclusivity
Risk Breakdown Structure
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Bottom-up estimating
9. 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.
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Make money and to protect the public
Status Reports
Design of Experiments
10. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
6 sigma
Change Control System
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Design of Experiments
11. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Visionary
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Time series method
12. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Project Slack
Finish to Start (Most common)
Create WBS
Business Risk
13. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Cost of Quality
Cost plus percentage of cost
Gold Plating
14. 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.
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Commincations Mgmt plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
15. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Run of Seven Rule
Code of Accounts
Develop Project Charter
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
16. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
Project Scope Statment
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
A Lag
17. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Influence/Impact grid
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Pure Risk
18. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Distribute Information
Organization Breakdown Structure
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
19. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Facilitator
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Influence/Impact grid
20. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Nonconformance
Develop Project Charter
Create WBS
Critical Path Method
21. 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.
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Critical Path Method
Risk Breakdown Structure
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
22. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
FORMAL Communication
Mutual Exclusivity
Root cause analysis
Critical Chain Method
23. 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)
LAG
Risk Owner
Strong Matrix
Critical Path Method
24. 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
Project Scope Statement
Start to Start
Team development Life Cycle
Project Scope Statment
25. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Scatter Diagram
FORMAL Communication
Expert Power
Gold Plating
26. One choice does not include any other choices
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Conformance
Mutual Exclusivity
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
27. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Scheduling
90%
Breach
Coaching
28. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Rolling Wave Planning
Horizontal Comm
Gold Plating
29. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Delphi Technique
Risk Register
Variance Analysis
30. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Work Package
Nonconformance
6 sigma
Penalty Power
31. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Risk breakdown structure
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
FORMAL Communication
32. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Influence/Impact grid
Elements of scope
Resource leveling
Requested Changes
33. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Project management and quality
Monte Carlo Technique
Start to Finsh
Internal comm
34. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Work Package
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Pareto Diagram
Variance Analysis
35. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Just-in-time (JIT)
Sigma
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Benchmarking
36. 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.
A lead
Interactive Communication
Assumptions
Root cause analysis
37. 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
Benchmarking
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
38. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Pure Risk
Statistical Independence
Risk Register
Project Slack
39. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Work Authorization System
Plan Communication
Salience Model
Risk Breakdown Structure
40. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Work Authorization System
Status Reports
Emphasis on defining scope
Resource breakdown structure
41. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Forcasting
Smoothing/Accommodating
Reward Power
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
42. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Critical Path Method
43. 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
Milestone list
3 Processes of quality managment
ISO 3 Steps
Coaching
44. 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
Nonconformance
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
45. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Horizontal Comm
Fringe
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Progress Report
46. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Life-cycle costing
Finish to Start (Most common)
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Status Reports
47. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Business Risk
Perks
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
48. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Concept of the Halo Theory
Director
Finish to Start (Most common)
Bottom-up estimating
49. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Total Quality Management TQM
Distribute Information
Work Package
Charismatic
50. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Start to Start
90%
Assumptions
Critical Chain Method