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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






2. Communication that is not on the record






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






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






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






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






7. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






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






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






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






11. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






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

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






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






15. 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






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






17. A milestone has a ______duration






18. 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






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






20. One choice does not include any other choices






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






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






23. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






25. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






26. 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






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






28. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






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






30. 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)






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






32. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






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






34. 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.






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






36. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






37. Shows the type of resources broken down






38. 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






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






40. 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






41. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






42. 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.






43. 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






44. 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.






45. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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