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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






2. 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.






3. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






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






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






6. 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






7. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






8. 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.






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






10. Commuincation within the project






11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






12. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






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






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






15. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






16. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






17. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem






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






19. 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






20. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






25. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






26. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






27. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






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






29. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






30. 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






31. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






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






33. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






34. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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






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






37. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






38. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






39. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






40. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






41. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






42. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






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






44. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






45. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






46. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






47. What is the number source of conflict?






48. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars






49. 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)






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