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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






2. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






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






4. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






9. 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






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






11. 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)






12. 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)






13. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






14. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






15. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






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






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






18. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






19. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






20. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






21. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






22. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






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






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






25. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






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






27. 3 main components of the communication model






28. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






29. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






30. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






31. Difference between internal and external risk






32. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl






33. One choice does not include any other choices






34. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






35. 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






36. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






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






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






39. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






40. 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






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






42. 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.






43. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






44. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. A milestone has a ______duration