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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Start to Finsh
Indentify Stakholders
Coaching
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
2. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Resource leveling
Collaborating
3 Processes of quality managment
Project management and quality
3. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
RAM charts
Communications requirement analysis
Charismatic
Finish to Finish
4. 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.
Causal/econometric
FORMAL Communication
Assumptions
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
5. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Risk Owner
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Perks
Stakeholder Analysis
6. Commuincation within the project
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Run Chart
Elements of scope
Internal comm
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.
Vertical Comm
Forcing
Verbal and Non-verbal
Reward Power
8. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Penalty Power
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
External Comm
Develop Project Team
9. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Monte Carlo Technique
Formal Power
Bottom-up Estimating
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
10. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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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)
LAG
Benchmarking
Develop Project Team
ISO 3 Steps
12. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Requested Changes
Develop Project Charter
Zero duration
Variance Analysis
13. 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
Finish to Finish
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Pure Risk
14. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Controlling communication
Influence/Impact Grid
Autocratic
Emphasis on defining scope
15. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
External Comm
Plan Risk Mgmt
Risk Register
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
16. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Verbal and Non-verbal
Strong Matrix
Stakeholder Analysis
Charateristics of a project
17. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Project Scope Statment
Work around
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Mgmt Reserves
18. 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
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Time series method
Compromising
19. 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.
Facilitator
Plan Communication
Indentify Risk
Residual Risk
20. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
LAG
Phase results are verified and documented
FORMAL Communication
Facilitator
21. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Risk Breakdown Structure
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Fringe
ISO 3 Steps
22. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
RAM charts
Charismatic
Coaching
Milestone Schedule
23. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Emphasis on defining scope
External Contraints
Change Control System
24. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Free (or Total) float
Create WBS
Oganization breakdown structure
90%
25. 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.
Perks
Risk Register
Director
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
26. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
The 100% Rule
Work Authorization System
Commincations Mgmt plan
27. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Director
Activity List
Pull Communication
28. 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
Referent Power
Approved Change
Report Performance
29. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Acquire Project Team
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Risk Triggers
Delphi Technique
30. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Concept of the Halo Theory
Cost plus percentage of cost
Salience Model
Run of Seven Rule
31. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Nonconformance
RAM charts
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Risk breakdown structure
32. Communication in writing or oral
Sigma
Code of Accounts
Judgemental methods
Written or oral
33. 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)
Implied warranty
Mediator
Pure Risk
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
34. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Bottom-up estimating
Power/Influence Grid
Time series method
Referent Power
35. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Finish to Start (Most common)
Critical Path Method
Bill of materials
Scope Baseline
36. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Activity List
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Indentify Stakholders
37. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
People responsible for quality
Assumptions
Implied warranty
Offical
38. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Status Reports
Salience Model
Create WBS
Level of Scope development
39. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Internal comm
Crashing
Breach
40. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
RAM charts
Design of Experiments
Pull Communication
Expectancy Theory
41. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Director
Delphi Technique
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
42. Communication that is not on the record
Unoffical Comm
Brainstorming
Report Performance
Interactive Communication
43. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Scatter Diagram
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Salience Model
Offical
44. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Distribute Information
Push Communications
45. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Smoothing and withdrawal
Critical Chain Method
LAG
Work Authorization System
46. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Crashing
Status Reports
Hygiene factors
47. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Fringe
Contingency Reserves
Elements of scope
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
48. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Risk Owner
Run of Seven Rule
Level of Scope development
90%
49. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Pure Risk
Judgemental methods
Causal/econometric
50. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Variance Analysis
Work Package
Sample Testing
Start to Start