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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






2. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project






3. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






4. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






11. Commuincation within the project






12. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






18. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






20. 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






21. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






22. 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.






23. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






24. Communication with peers






25. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team






26. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






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






28. 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






29. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






30. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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31. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






32. 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






33. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






34. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






35. What is the number source of conflict?






36. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






37. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






38. 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.






39. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






40. 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






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated






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






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






48. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






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






50. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.







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