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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Code of Accounts
Level of Scope development
Scope Baseline
Charismatic
2. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Collaborating
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Milestone list
ISO 3 Steps
3. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Root cause analysis
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Develop Human Resource Plan
4. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
6 sigma
Milestone Schedule
Demings' 14 principles of Management
External Comm
5. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Compromising
Gold Plating
Hygiene factors
Status Reports
6. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Acquire Project Team
Root cause analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Run Chart
7. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Work Authorization System
Develop Project Team
Bottom-up estimating
Summary Schdule
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
Run Chart
Hygiene factors
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
9. 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
Project Scope Statement
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Forcing
Impact
10. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Project Slack
Fast Tracking
6 sigma
Rolling Wave Planning
11. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Residual Risk
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Concept of the Halo Theory
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
12. 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.
Design of Experiments
Change Control Board
Life-cycle costing
Residual Risk
13. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Brainstorming
Work Package
The 100% Rule
14. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Penalty Power
Manage Project Team
Progress Report
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
15. 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.
Smoothing and withdrawal
PMIS
3 Processes of quality managment
Cost of Quality
16. One choice does not include any other choices
Work around
Salience Model
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Mutual Exclusivity
17. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Elements of scope
FORMAL Communication
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
18. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
RAM charts
Critical Path Method
Run Chart
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
19. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Total Quality Management TQM
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Causal/econometric
Risk breakdown structure
20. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Project Slack
Communications requirement analysis
Just-in-time (JIT)
21. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Work Package
Withdrawing/Avoiding
3 Processes of quality managment
Plan Risk Mgmt
22. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Run Chart
Written or oral
23. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Bottom-up estimating
Risk Triggers
Influence/Impact Grid
Offical
24. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Closing the project
Project management and quality
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Project Scope Statment
25. 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
Summary Schdule
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Cost of Quality
Contraints
26. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Team development Life Cycle
Develop Project Charter
90%
Power/Influence Grid
27. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Manage Project Team
Run of Seven Rule
28. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Closing the project
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Residual Risk
29. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
30. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Causal/econometric
Smoothing/Accommodating
Closing the project
Life-cycle costing
31. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Acquire Project Team
Expert Power
Create WBS
32. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Scope Baseline
Indentify Risk
Conformance
Rolling Wave Planning
33. 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
Total Quality Management TQM
Develop Human Resource Plan
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Bottom-up estimating
34. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Create WBS
Manage Project Team
35. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Plan Communication
90%
Fringe
Autocratic
36. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Risk Owner
Concept of the Halo Theory
Work around
Emphasis on defining scope
37. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Bottom-up Estimating
Manage Project Team
Oganization breakdown structure
38. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Work Authorization System
Plan Risk Mgmt
39. Communication that is not on the record
Unoffical Comm
Acquire Project Team
Risk breakdown structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
40. 3 main components of the communication model
Delphi Technique
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Team development Life Cycle
Status Reports
41. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Mediator
Requested Changes
Resource breakdown structure
42. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Risk Register
Risk Owner
Create WBS
Cost plus percentage of cost
43. 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
Secondary Risk
Requested Changes
Cost plus percentage of cost
Referent Power
44. 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
External Comm
Contingency Reserves
Stakeholder Analysis
45. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Assumptions
Free (or Total) float
Gold Plating
46. 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
Total Quality Management TQM
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Elements of scope
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
47. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Milestone Schedule
Fringe
Time series method
Delphi Technique
48. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Pull Communication
Make money and to protect the public
49. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Indentify Risk
Impact
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Sigma
50. 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
90%
Resource leveling
Risk Owner
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis