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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. A milestone has a ______duration






2. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






4. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.






5. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






6. 3 main components of the communication model






7. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






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






9. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






10. Communication in writing or oral






11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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.






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






17. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






18. 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.






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






20. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






21. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






22. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






29. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






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






36. 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






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






38. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






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






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






41. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






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






43. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






44. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






46. 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






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






48. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






49. 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






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