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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Develop Human Resource Plan
Mgmt Reserves
Stakeholder Analysis
Vertical Comm
2. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Project Selection
Pull Communication
Internal comm
Risk Triggers
3. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Pareto Diagram
Start to Finsh
Develop Human Resource Plan
4. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Collaborating
Project Selection
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
5. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Compromising
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Business Risk
Referent Power
6. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Expert Power
Risk Owner
Status Reports
Stakeholder Analysis
7. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Distribute Information
Written or oral
8. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Autocratic
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Indentify Risk
Status Reports
9. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Level of Scope development
Acquire Project Team
Implied warranty
10. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Pull Communication
Causal/econometric
Scope Baseline
Offical
11. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Sigma
Phase results are verified and documented
People responsible for quality
Total Quality Management TQM
12. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Design of Experiments
Formal Power
Status Reports
13. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Conformance
3 Processes of quality managment
Scatter Diagram
14. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Rolling Wave Planning
Offical
Milestone list
15. 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
Run of Seven Rule
Formal Power
3 Processes of quality managment
Rolling Wave Planning
16. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Causal/econometric
Gold Plating
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
17. 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
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Code of Accounts
Perks
Mgmt by Objectives
18. A milestone has a ______duration
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Zero duration
Charismatic
19. 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
Project Scope Statment
Risk Triggers
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
20. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Pull Communication
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Reward Power
Sample Testing
21. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Start to Finsh
Influence/Impact Grid
90%
Create WBS
22. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Brainstorming
Causal/econometric
Phase results are verified and documented
Mgmt by Objectives
23. 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.
Scatter Diagram
PMIS
Risk Owner
Fast Tracking
24. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Project Slack
Cost plus percentage of cost
Secondary Risk
Mgmt Reserves
25. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
Plan Risk Mgmt
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
LAG
Reward Power
26. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Monte Carlo Technique
Commincations Mgmt plan
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Penalty Power
27. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Activity List
Implied warranty
Rolling Wave Planning
Design of Experiments
28. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Autocratic
Status Reports
29. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Contingency Reserves
Change Control System
Internal comm
Life-cycle costing
30. 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)
Director
Start to Finsh
Confronting/ Problem solving
Critical Path Method
31. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Statistical Independence
Nonconformance
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Communications requirement analysis
32. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Benchmarking
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Business Risk
Approved Change
33. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Emphasis on defining scope
Develop Project Team
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Work around
34. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Sample Testing
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Variance Analysis
35. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Statistical Independence
Gold Plating
Elements of scope
Crashing
36. 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
Push Communications
Develop Project Team
Facilitator
Confronting/ Problem solving
37. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Concept of the Halo Theory
ISO 3 Steps
Time series method
38. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.
Judgemental methods
Visionary
Free (or Total) float
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
39. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Design of Experiments
Project Selection
Distribute Information
Business Risk
40. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Project Slack
Expert Power
Referent Power
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
41. 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.
Summary Schdule
PMIS
Requested Changes
Controlling communication
42. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
n *(n -1) /2
Phase results are verified and documented
LAG
43. 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
Mediator
Create WBS
Sample Testing
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
44. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
45. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Breach
Smoothing and withdrawal
Start to Start
Pareto Diagram
46. 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.
Assumptions
Controlling communication
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Plan Communication
47. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Emphasis on defining scope
Resource breakdown structure
Status Reports
48. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
Rolling Wave Planning
RAM charts
External Contraints
Create WBS
49. 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.
Compromising
Develop Human Resource Plan
Milestone Schedule
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
50. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
90%
Forcasting
Phase results are verified and documented
Autocratic