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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






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






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






4. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






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






6. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






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






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. 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






10. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






11. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






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.






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






14. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






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.






16. One choice does not include any other choices






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






18. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






19. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






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






21. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






22. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






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






34. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






35. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






36. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






37. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






39. Communication that is not on the record






40. 3 main components of the communication model






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






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






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