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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. Communication up and down the organization






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






4. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






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






6. 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






7. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






8. 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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9. 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.






10. 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.






11. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






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






13. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






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






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






16. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






17. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






18. 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.






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






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






21. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan






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






28. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






29. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






30. 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.






31. Communication that is not on the record






32. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






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






34. 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






35. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers






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






37. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






38. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






39. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






40. 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






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






42. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






43. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






44. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel






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






46. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






47. 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






48. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






49. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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