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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Power/Influence Grid
Perks
2. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
3. Shows the type of resources broken down
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Design of Experiments
Resource breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
4. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Manage Project Team
Contraints
Risk breakdown structure
5. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Code of Accounts
Free (or Total) float
Pure Risk
6. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Benchmarking
Oganization breakdown structure
A lead
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
7. 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
Bottom-up estimating
Power/Influence Grid
Cost plus percentage of cost
Vertical Comm
8. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Visionary
Statistical Independence
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Work Package
9. 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)
Referent Power
Critical Path Method
Interactive Communication
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
10. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Code of Accounts
Project Scope Statment
ISO 3 Steps
Bill of materials
11. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Resource breakdown structure
Level of Scope development
Conformance
Root cause analysis
12. 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.
Forcing
Mgmt by Objectives
Start to Start
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
13. 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
Approved Change
Delphi Technique
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
14. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Elements of scope
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Work Package
Level of Scope development
15. 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)
Scatter Diagram
Start to Finsh
Charateristics of a project
16. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Scatter Diagram
Crashing
Written or oral
Free (or Total) float
17. 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.
Vertical Comm
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Plan Communication
Report Performance
18. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Formal Power
Work Package
Contraints
19. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Project Selection
Rolling Wave Planning
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Plan Communication
20. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Work around
Plan Communication
Cost of Quality
Scope Baseline
21. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Communications requirement analysis
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Resource leveling
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
22. 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
Implied warranty
Resource breakdown structure
Influence/Impact grid
23. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Formal Power
Salience Model
Rolling Wave Planning
Status Reports
24. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Formal Power
Bill of materials
Schedules - project priorities - resources
25. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure
Brainstorming
A Lag
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Perks
26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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27. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Unoffical Comm
Internal comm
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
28. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Mgmt by Objectives
Withdrawing/Avoiding
29. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Status Reports
Cost of Quality
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Collaborating
30. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Plan Risk Mgmt
Indentify Risk
Power/Influence Grid
31. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Status Reports
Milestone Schedule
Risk Triggers
Start to Start
32. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Finish to Finish
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
33. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Forcasting
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
34. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Push Communications
Variance Analysis
Assumptions
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
35. 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.
Assumptions
ISO 3 Steps
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Triggers
36. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Life-cycle costing
Acquire Project Team
Risk Triggers
Secondary Risk
37. Commuincation within the project
RAM charts
Internal comm
Closing the project
Nonconformance
38. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Distribute Information
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Work around
Fringe
39. 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
Coaching
FORMAL Communication
Manage Project Team
Staffing Mgmt Plan
40. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Critical Chain Method
Total Quality Management TQM
Salience Model
Change Control Board
41. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Power/ Interest Grid
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
People responsible for quality
42. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Benchmarking
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Impact
A Lag
43. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Distribute Information
Mgmt by Objectives
Business Risk
Zero duration
44. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Fringe
Sample Testing
Work Authorization System
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
45. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
ISO 3 Steps
Plan Risk Mgmt
Approved Change
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
46. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Delphi Technique
Pure Risk
Hygiene factors
Confronting/ Problem solving
47. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Resource breakdown structure
Hygiene factors
Impact
48. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Forcing
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Risk Breakdown Structure
49. Communication up and down the organization
Risk breakdown structure
Vertical Comm
Bottom-up estimating
Mediator
50. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Crashing
A Lag
Closing the project
Life-cycle costing