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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Fringe
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Risk Breakdown Structure
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
2. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Indentify Risk
Resource leveling
3. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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4. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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5. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Salience Model
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
6. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Delphi Technique
Report Performance
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Stakeholder Analysis
7. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Approved Change
Project Scope Statment
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
8. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Salience Model
Penalty Power
Bottom-up Estimating
Elements of scope
9. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Zero duration
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Organization Breakdown Structure
10. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Run of Seven Rule
Smoothing and withdrawal
Director
11. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Delphi Technique
Collaborating
Design of Experiments
12. 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
Impact
Horizontal Comm
Distribute Information
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
13. 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.
Conformance
Scope Baseline
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Demings' 14 principles of Management
14. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
PMIS
Work around
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Statistical Independence
15. 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)
PMIS
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Risk Owner
16. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Mgmt by Objectives
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Resource leveling
Indentify Risk
17. 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
Life-cycle costing
Resource leveling
Sigma
Develop Human Resource Plan
18. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Autocratic
Finish to Finish
Scope Baseline
Forcasting
19. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Pure Risk
Gold Plating
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Fringe
20. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Oganization breakdown structure
Reward Power
Offical
Develop Project Team
21. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Free (or Total) float
Make money and to protect the public
Risk Triggers
22. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Hygiene factors
Root cause analysis
Implied warranty
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
23. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
ISO 3 Steps
Smoothing/Accommodating
Perks
24. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Penalty Power
Project Scope Statment
Total Quality Management TQM
25. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Indentify Stakholders
Work around
Risk Register
Charateristics of a project
26. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Report Performance
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Free (or Total) float
Mgmt by Objectives
27. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
n *(n -1) /2
Reward Power
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Milestone Schedule
28. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Variance Analysis
Project Slack
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Life-cycle costing
29. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Root cause analysis
Manage Project Team
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Pure Risk
30. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
External Contraints
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Develop Project Charter
Mediator
31. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Variance Analysis
Develop Project Team
Project Selection
Pareto Diagram
32. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Facilitator
Power/ Interest Grid
Communications requirement analysis
33. Communication with peers
Perks
Run of Seven Rule
Horizontal Comm
Implied warranty
34. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl
Team development Life Cycle
Referent Power
Benchmarking
Critical Chain Method
35. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
LAG
Delphi Technique
36. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Concept of the Halo Theory
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Business Risk
Smoothing/Accommodating
37. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Finish to Start (Most common)
Penalty Power
Distribute Information
ISO 3 Steps
38. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Hygiene factors
Business Risk
People responsible for quality
Smoothing/Accommodating
39. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Mutual Exclusivity
Salience Model
The 100% Rule
Root cause analysis
40. 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)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Risk breakdown structure
PMIS
Develop Project Team
41. 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
Project Scope Statement
Phase results are verified and documented
Charismatic
Internal comm
42. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
A Lag
Develop Project Charter
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
43. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Communications requirement analysis
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Plan Risk Mgmt
44. 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
Manage Project Team
Run of Seven Rule
Internal comm
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
45. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
Project Scope Statment
RAM charts
Mgmt Reserves
46. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Pull Communication
Zero duration
Critical Path Method
47. One choice does not include any other choices
Mutual Exclusivity
Work Package
Benchmarking
Design of Experiments
48. 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
Indentify Stakholders
Pull Communication
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Start to Start
49. Communication up and down the organization
Resource breakdown structure
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Time series method
Vertical Comm
50. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
A lead
Scatter Diagram
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Cost plus percentage of cost