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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Secondary Risk
Progress Report
FORMAL Communication
Mgmt by Objectives
2. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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3. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Plan Risk Mgmt
Project management and quality
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Closing the project
4. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
6 sigma
Work Authorization System
FORMAL Communication
Forcing
5. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Develop Project Charter
Residual Risk
Business Risk
Root cause analysis
6. 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)
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Critical Path Method
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Code of Accounts
7. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Root cause analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Indentify Risk
Autocratic
8. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
RAM charts
Horizontal Comm
Controlling communication
Risk Triggers
9. 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
Interactive Communication
Coaching
6 sigma
Milestone list
10. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Run of Seven Rule
Coaching
Smoothing/Accommodating
Time series method
11. 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
Sample Testing
Report Performance
Coaching
Perks
12. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Total Quality Management TQM
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
n *(n -1) /2
13. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Level of Scope development
Interactive Communication
14. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Closing the project
Critical Chain Method
Change Control System
Judgemental methods
15. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Smoothing and withdrawal
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Push Communications
16. 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
Conformance
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
External Contraints
17. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Resource breakdown structure
Rolling Wave Planning
Strong Matrix
Confronting/ Problem solving
18. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Residual Risk
Formal Power
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Concept of the Halo Theory
19. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
Assumptions
LAG
Monte Carlo Technique
Run Chart
20. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
3 Processes of quality managment
Delphi Technique
Risk Breakdown Structure
Bill of materials
21. Commuincation within the project
Design of Experiments
Expectancy Theory
Mgmt Reserves
Internal comm
22. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Causal/econometric
Visionary
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Distribute Information
23. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Risk Register
Emphasis on defining scope
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Penalty Power
24. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Delphi Technique
25. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Plan Communication
Visionary
Conformance
Critical Path Method
26. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Bottom-up estimating
Finish to Finish
Manage Project Team
27. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Smoothing/Accommodating
Resource breakdown structure
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
External Comm
28. 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
Work Authorization System
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Mgmt by Objectives
Run Chart
29. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
6 sigma
Mediator
Elements of scope
Delphi Technique
30. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
n *(n -1) /2
Penalty Power
Communications requirement analysis
Pure Risk
31. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Autocratic
Scope Baseline
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Level of Scope development
32. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Status Reports
90%
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
33. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Internal comm
Free (or Total) float
34. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Secondary Risk
Horizontal Comm
Power/Influence Grid
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
35. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Requested Changes
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Vertical Comm
Oganization breakdown structure
36. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Penalty Power
Stakeholder Analysis
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Variance Analysis
37. 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.
Plan Communication
Create WBS
Bottom-up Estimating
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
38. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Collaborating
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Resource breakdown structure
Resource breakdown structure
39. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
Rolling Wave Planning
Power/Influence Grid
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Statistical Independence
40. 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
Internal comm
Mutual Exclusivity
A lead
Project Scope Statment
41. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Facilitator
Autocratic
Change Control Board
Salience Model
42. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Charateristics of a project
Develop Human Resource Plan
People responsible for quality
Indentify Risk
43. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Total Quality Management TQM
Gold Plating
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Staffing Mgmt Plan
44. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Causal/econometric
Gold Plating
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Develop Project Team
45. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Pull Communication
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Free (or Total) float
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
46. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
47. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Salience Model
Causal/econometric
Power/ Interest Grid
Written or oral
48. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
FORMAL Communication
External Contraints
Create WBS
Salience Model
49. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Reward Power
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Run Chart
50. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Free (or Total) float
Contingency Reserves
The 100% Rule
ISO 3 Steps