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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Communication with peers






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






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






4. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






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






6. 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.






7. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






8. 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






9. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






10. 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)






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






12. 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.






13. 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






14. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






15. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






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






17. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






18. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






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






21. Delphi Technique Interviewing






22. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






24. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






25. 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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26. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






27. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






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






29. 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)






30. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






31. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






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






33. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






34. 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






35. Communication formula






36. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






37. What is the output of Identify Risk?






38. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






39. 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






40. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






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






42. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






43. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






44. One choice does not include any other choices






45. 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






46. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






47. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






48. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






49. Difference between internal and external risk






50. 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)






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