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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






2. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






3. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution






4. 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.






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






6. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






7. 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.






8. 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






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






10. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






11. 3 main components of the communication model






12. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






13. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






14. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






15. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






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






17. 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.






18. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






19. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






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






21. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






22. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






23. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






24. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






25. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






26. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






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






28. 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






29. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






30. 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)






31. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






32. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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)






36. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






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






38. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






39. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






40. Communication that is not on the record






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






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






46. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team






47. 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






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






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






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