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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Mgmt Reserves
Perks
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Create WBS
2. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Progress Report
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Strong Matrix
FORMAL Communication
3. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Withdrawing/Avoiding
People responsible for quality
Director
Push Communications
4. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Run of Seven Rule
Pull Communication
Contingency Reserves
Power/Influence Grid
5. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
LAG
Critical Chain Method
Horizontal Comm
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
6. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Free (or Total) float
Activity List
Project Selection
Life-cycle costing
7. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Hygiene factors
Conformance
Residual Risk
Elements of scope
8. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Risk breakdown structure
Level of Scope development
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Time series method
9. 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
Written or oral
Project Scope Statment
Formal Power
Just-in-time (JIT)
10. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Develop Project Charter
Start to Finsh
Perks
11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Secondary Risk
Project management and quality
Variance Analysis
Power/Influence Grid
12. 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
A Lag
Plan Risk Mgmt
Communications requirement analysis
Elements of scope
13. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Indentify Risk
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Offical
14. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Project Slack
Elements of scope
PMIS
15. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Pure Risk
Change Control System
Horizontal Comm
16. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Contingency Reserves
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Requested Changes
Risk breakdown structure
17. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Influence/Impact Grid
Plan Communication
Status Reports
Facilitator
18. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
90%
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
6 sigma
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
19. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Penalty Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Time series method
Breach
20. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Internal comm
Indentify Stakholders
Delphi Technique
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
21. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Milestone list
Indentify Stakholders
Benchmarking
Resource breakdown structure
22. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Progress Report
Expectancy Theory
23. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Work around
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
24. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
A lead
Project Slack
25. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Manage Project Team
Facilitator
Autocratic
Brainstorming
26. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Develop Project Team
Requested Changes
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Nonconformance
27. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Autocratic
Create WBS
28. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
FORMAL Communication
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Create WBS
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
29. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Make money and to protect the public
Breach
Interactive Communication
Crashing
30. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Work around
Written or oral
Business Risk
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
31. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
External Comm
Cost of Quality
Charateristics of a project
32. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Finish to Start (Most common)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Impact
33. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Charismatic
Brainstorming
Develop Project Charter
34. 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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35. 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
Salience Model
Influence/Impact Grid
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Fringe
36. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Start to Start
Hygiene factors
90%
Forcasting
37. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
Coaching
LAG
Impact
Project Slack
38. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Phase results are verified and documented
Horizontal Comm
Create WBS
39. 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.
Risk Register
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Assumptions
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
40. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Forcasting
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Rolling Wave Planning
41. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Just-in-time (JIT)
Contraints
Implied warranty
Facilitator
42. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
n *(n -1) /2
Push Communications
Expert Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
43. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Rolling Wave Planning
Acquire Project Team
Work around
Bottom-up Estimating
44. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Activity List
Develop Human Resource Plan
Develop Project Team
Bill of materials
45. A milestone has a ______duration
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Impact
Zero duration
46. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Sample Testing
Pull Communication
Work Authorization System
Distribute Information
47. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
PMIS
Breach
Time series method
Bill of materials
48. 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
Requested Changes
Compromising
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
49. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
6 sigma
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Finish to Finish
50. Shows an aggregate or rolled up view of the various activites at the summary level. It gives senior management - the project management team - a picture of how long the summary level work packages are to take - and what sequence they occur
Develop Human Resource Plan
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Summary Schdule
Autocratic