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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Activity List
Just-in-time (JIT)
Life-cycle costing
Root cause analysis
2. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Delphi Technique
Mgmt Reserves
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk breakdown structure
3. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Bill of materials
Finish to Start (Most common)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
4. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Project Selection
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Contingency Reserves
5. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Penalty Power
Milestone Schedule
Communications requirement analysis
Power/Influence Grid
6. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Rolling Wave Planning
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
External Contraints
Change Control Board
7. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Rolling Wave Planning
Create WBS
Expectancy Theory
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
8. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Smoothing and withdrawal
Secondary Risk
Concept of the Halo Theory
9. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Influence/Impact grid
RAM charts
Progress Report
Smoothing and withdrawal
10. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Team development Life Cycle
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
11. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Pareto Diagram
Smoothing and withdrawal
3 Processes of quality managment
12. What is the number source of conflict?
Implied warranty
Team development Life Cycle
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Scheduling
13. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
14. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Brainstorming
Create WBS
Elements of scope
15. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Rolling Wave Planning
Requested Changes
Unoffical Comm
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
16. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel
Perks
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Formal Power
Resource breakdown structure
17. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
A lead
Controlling communication
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
18. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Team development Life Cycle
Hygiene factors
Sigma
19. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Offical
Cost of Quality
Closing the project
Mgmt Reserves
20. 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
Impact
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Work Authorization System
Compromising
21. 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.
Commincations Mgmt plan
Expert Power
Project Slack
Plan Communication
22. 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.
Coaching
Mediator
Expectancy Theory
Influence/Impact grid
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.
Change Control System
Fast Tracking
Influence/Impact Grid
Progress Report
24. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
25. 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
Residual Risk
Mutual Exclusivity
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
26. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Salience Model
Total Quality Management TQM
27. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Project management and quality
Risk Owner
Implied warranty
Concept of the Halo Theory
28. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Fast Tracking
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Expectancy Theory
29. 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
Vertical Comm
Fast Tracking
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
30. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
External Contraints
Director
3 Processes of quality managment
31. 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.
Collaborating
FORMAL Communication
Scope Baseline
Project Scope Statment
32. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Autocratic
Report Performance
Risk Triggers
Contingency Reserves
33. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Oganization breakdown structure
External Contraints
Compromising
Run Chart
34. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Plan Risk Mgmt
Charismatic
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Strong Matrix
35. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Hygiene factors
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
36. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Report Performance
Time series method
Reward Power
37. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Work Authorization System
Bottom-up estimating
FORMAL Communication
Distribute Information
38. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Forcing
Start to Finsh
39. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Free (or Total) float
Residual Risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Make money and to protect the public
40. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Just-in-time (JIT)
Gold Plating
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Compromising
41. A milestone has a ______duration
Pareto Diagram
Contingency Reserves
Bottom-up estimating
Zero duration
42. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
A lead
External Comm
Project Scope Statment
Run of Seven Rule
43. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
RAM charts
Fringe
Mgmt Reserves
Controlling communication
44. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Residual Risk
Controlling communication
Work Package
Concept of the Halo Theory
45. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Mgmt Reserves
Statistical Independence
Project Slack
People responsible for quality
46. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Phase results are verified and documented
Director
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk breakdown structure
47. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Run Chart
Start to Finsh
Fringe
Project Slack
48. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Project Scope Statment
LAG
Level of Scope development
49. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Scatter Diagram
Communications requirement analysis
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
50. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Create WBS
Offical
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors