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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






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






3. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






4. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






5. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






6. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






7. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological


8. One choice does not include any other choices






9. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






10. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






11. Communication up and down the organization






12. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






13. 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






14. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






15. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






16. 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






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






18. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






19. 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






20. Communication in writing or oral






21. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






22. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






23. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....


24. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






25. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






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






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






28. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






29. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






30. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






31. What is the number source of conflict?






32. 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)






33. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






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






35. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






36. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






37. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






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






39. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






41. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






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






43. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






44. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






45. 3 main components of the communication model






46. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






47. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






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






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






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