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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






2. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






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






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






5. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






6. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






7. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones






8. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






9. 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






10. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






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






12. 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.






13. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






14. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






15. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






16. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






17. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






18. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






19. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






20. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






21. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






22. 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






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






24. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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.






30. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






31. 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.






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






43. 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






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






45. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






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






47. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






48. What is the output of Identify Risk?






49. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






50. 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)