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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Indentify Risk
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Resource leveling
Unoffical Comm
2. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
External Comm
Delphi Technique
90%
3. 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.
Salience Model
Risk Breakdown Structure
Facilitator
Indentify Stakholders
4. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Verbal and Non-verbal
Concept of the Halo Theory
Bill of materials
The 100% Rule
5. 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
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Contraints
Develop Project Team
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
6. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Resource breakdown structure
90%
Oganization breakdown structure
7. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Run Chart
Develop Project Charter
Director
Project Slack
8. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Contraints
n *(n -1) /2
Emphasis on defining scope
Start to Finsh
9. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Autocratic
Change Control System
Mutual Exclusivity
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
10. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Influence/Impact Grid
Mediator
Design of Experiments
Gold Plating
11. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Perks
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
People responsible for quality
12. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Rolling Wave Planning
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Gold Plating
13. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Change Control System
Resource leveling
Pareto Diagram
14. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Rolling Wave Planning
Bottom-up estimating
Hygiene factors
Resource breakdown structure
15. A milestone has a ______duration
Design of Experiments
Zero duration
Start to Finsh
Expectancy Theory
16. 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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17. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Contraints
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Code of Accounts
18. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Manage Project Team
Sample Testing
Scheduling
19. 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.
Start to Start
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Fast Tracking
Commincations Mgmt plan
20. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Plan Risk Mgmt
Contraints
21. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Confronting/ Problem solving
Finish to Finish
Nonconformance
Residual Risk
22. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Plan Communication
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Variance Analysis
Pure Risk
23. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Zero duration
Reward Power
Risk Triggers
24. Commuincation within the project
Risk Triggers
Internal comm
Autocratic
Create WBS
25. 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
Residual Risk
Project Scope Statement
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Compromising
26. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Organization Breakdown Structure
Milestone list
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
27. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Make money and to protect the public
Internal comm
Work around
28. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
Design of Experiments
Scatter Diagram
The 100% Rule
29. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Pareto Diagram
Create WBS
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
6 sigma
30. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Report Performance
Finish to Finish
Milestone Schedule
31. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th
Start to Finsh
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Bottom-up Estimating
Strong Matrix
32. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Crashing
Verbal and Non-verbal
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Written or oral
33. 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)
Change Control System
Contingency Reserves
The 100% Rule
34. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Approved Change
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Confronting/ Problem solving
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
35. 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
Commincations Mgmt plan
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Summary Schdule
Project Scope Statment
36. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Strong Matrix
Project management and quality
FORMAL Communication
37. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Acquire Project Team
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Risk Breakdown Structure
Benchmarking
38. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Gold Plating
Plan Communication
Acquire Project Team
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
39. 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
Work Authorization System
Charismatic
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
90%
40. 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
Zero duration
Judgemental methods
Life-cycle costing
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
41. 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
Crashing
Verbal and Non-verbal
Influence/Impact Grid
Benchmarking
42. 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
Status Reports
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Resource breakdown structure
Contingency Reserves
43. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Facilitator
Strong Matrix
Resource breakdown structure
Work Package
44. 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
Report Performance
Gold Plating
Penalty Power
Project Scope Statment
45. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
LAG
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Verbal and Non-verbal
Salience Model
46. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Rolling Wave Planning
LAG
Assumptions
47. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Work Authorization System
Formal Power
Life-cycle costing
3 Processes of quality managment
48. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Critical Chain Method
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Project Slack
Requested Changes
49. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Root cause analysis
Develop Human Resource Plan
Milestone Schedule
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
50. 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
Unoffical Comm
Salience Model
Internal comm