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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
Work Authorization System
Rolling Wave Planning
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
2. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Work around
Mgmt Reserves
Fast Tracking
3. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Risk Register
Work Authorization System
Work Package
4. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Closing the project
Benchmarking
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Cost plus percentage of cost
5. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Pure Risk
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Closing the project
Report Performance
6. 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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7. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Salience Model
Director
Commincations Mgmt plan
Coaching
8. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Start to Start
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Offical
9. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Bottom-up estimating
Statistical Independence
Schedules - project priorities - resources
10. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Change Control Board
Life-cycle costing
Strong Matrix
11. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Assumptions
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Make money and to protect the public
Indentify Risk
12. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Develop Project Team
Mutual Exclusivity
Closing the project
Create WBS
13. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Judgemental methods
Report Performance
Closing the project
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
14. 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
Phase results are verified and documented
Mediator
Run Chart
Free (or Total) float
15. 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.
Project Slack
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Critical Path Method
Assumptions
16. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Implied warranty
Sigma
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Confronting/ Problem solving
17. 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
Change Control Board
People responsible for quality
Resource breakdown structure
Contraints
18. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Analogous or Top down Estimating
n *(n -1) /2
Causal/econometric
19. 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
Fringe
Total Quality Management TQM
Project Scope Statment
Distribute Information
20. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Variance Analysis
Work around
6 sigma
21. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Level of Scope development
Approved Change
Status Reports
22. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Change Control Board
Develop Project Charter
Mutual Exclusivity
23. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Start to Finsh
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Fringe
Reward Power
24. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
A lead
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Smoothing/Accommodating
Time series method
25. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Facilitator
Variance Analysis
Run Chart
26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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27. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Risk Breakdown Structure
Scheduling
Compromising
Conformance
28. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Run of Seven Rule
Free (or Total) float
Smoothing/Accommodating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
29. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Risk Triggers
Stakeholder Analysis
Pure Risk
Withdrawing/Avoiding
30. 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
Salience Model
Resource leveling
Hygiene factors
Risk Register
31. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Work Authorization System
Rolling Wave Planning
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
32. 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
Contingency Reserves
Work Authorization System
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Register
33. 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
Contraints
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Resource leveling
Stakeholder Analysis
34. Commuincation within the project
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Internal comm
Stakeholder Analysis
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
35. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Mutual Exclusivity
Breach
Delphi Technique
36. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Written or oral
Start to Start
Code of Accounts
37. What is the number source of conflict?
Reward Power
Scheduling
Formal Power
Controlling communication
38. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Monte Carlo Technique
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Causal/econometric
39. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Change Control System
FORMAL Communication
Elements of scope
A lead
40. 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
Coaching
Influence/Impact Grid
Gold Plating
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
41. 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
Progress Report
Referent Power
Summary Schdule
Statistical Independence
42. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Smoothing and withdrawal
Risk Owner
43. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Rolling Wave Planning
Influence/Impact grid
Forcing
Mgmt by Objectives
44. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Stakeholder Analysis
Facilitator
Benchmarking
45. 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
Strong Matrix
Bottom-up Estimating
Oganization breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
46. 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
Communications requirement analysis
Activity List
Confronting/ Problem solving
Compromising
47. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Statistical Independence
Phase results are verified and documented
Expert Power
Schedules - project priorities - resources
48. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Team development Life Cycle
Scheduling
Bottom-up estimating
PMIS
49. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Cost of Quality
Start to Start
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Requested Changes
50. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Benchmarking
Fringe
Create WBS
Demings' 14 principles of Management