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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Risk Register
Scatter Diagram
3 Processes of quality managment
2. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Project Scope Statement
Resource breakdown structure
External Comm
Monte Carlo Technique
3. Communication up and down the organization
Contingency Reserves
Vertical Comm
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Code of Accounts
4. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Project management and quality
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Run Chart
Offical
5. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Fringe
Milestone list
Charateristics of a project
Brainstorming
6. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Root cause analysis
Expert Power
Phase results are verified and documented
Code of Accounts
7. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Project Slack
Start to Finsh
3 Processes of quality managment
8. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Plan Risk Mgmt
Internal comm
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Nonconformance
9. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
RAM charts
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Brainstorming
10. 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
Expert Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Emphasis on defining scope
Nonconformance
11. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Business Risk
Design of Experiments
Progress Report
Power/Influence Grid
12. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Variance Analysis
Summary Schdule
Autocratic
Offical
13. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Report Performance
Scheduling
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
14. Communication formula
Judgemental methods
Approved Change
Develop Project Team
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15. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Risk Triggers
Salience Model
Crashing
16. One choice does not include any other choices
Mutual Exclusivity
Variance Analysis
Push Communications
Conformance
17. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Status Reports
Zero duration
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
18. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
External Contraints
Compromising
Change Control Board
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
19. Communication that is not on the record
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Horizontal Comm
Unoffical Comm
Mutual Exclusivity
20. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements
Compromising
Offical
Cost plus percentage of cost
Elements of scope
21. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Report Performance
ISO 3 Steps
Secondary Risk
22. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Judgemental methods
Work Package
Risk Register
Make money and to protect the public
23. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
RAM charts
Bill of materials
24. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Judgemental methods
Develop Project Charter
Causal/econometric
Milestone Schedule
25. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Perks
Monte Carlo Technique
Cost plus percentage of cost
Smoothing/Accommodating
26. 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
Scope Baseline
Team development Life Cycle
Strong Matrix
Verbal and Non-verbal
27. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Just-in-time (JIT)
Crashing
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Activity List
28. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Perks
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
6 sigma
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
29. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Breach
Risk Breakdown Structure
Project Slack
Bill of materials
30. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
Change Control System
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
PMIS
31. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Scatter Diagram
Change Control System
Make money and to protect the public
Project Selection
32. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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33. 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.
Bill of materials
Critical Path Method
Monte Carlo Technique
Visionary
34. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Secondary Risk
Zero duration
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Visionary
35. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Smoothing/Accommodating
Controlling communication
Approved Change
36. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Rolling Wave Planning
Gold Plating
Create WBS
Make money and to protect the public
37. 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
Project management and quality
Change Control Board
Compromising
External Contraints
38. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Start to Start
Concept of the Halo Theory
Report Performance
External Contraints
39. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Residual Risk
Time series method
Scatter Diagram
Strong Matrix
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)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Benchmarking
Project management and quality
41. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Risk Breakdown Structure
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Contingency Reserves
Crashing
42. 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.
Power/Influence Grid
Project Scope Statement
90%
Assumptions
43. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Secondary Risk
Emphasis on defining scope
Concept of the Halo Theory
Total Quality Management TQM
44. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Total Quality Management TQM
External Contraints
Charateristics of a project
45. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Autocratic
Communications requirement analysis
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
46. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Director
Develop Project Charter
Influence/Impact Grid
47. Communication with peers
Horizontal Comm
Controlling communication
Statistical Independence
Formal Power
48. 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
Smoothing/Accommodating
Root cause analysis
Referent Power
Communications requirement analysis
49. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Closing the project
Judgemental methods
Unoffical Comm
Free (or Total) float
50. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Emphasis on defining scope
A Lag
Develop Project Team
Risk Owner