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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Start to Finsh
Scatter Diagram
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
PMIS
2. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
3 Processes of quality managment
Run of Seven Rule
Cost plus percentage of cost
Power/ Interest Grid
3. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Sigma
Statistical Independence
Cost plus percentage of cost
4. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Summary Schdule
Change Control Board
Pareto Diagram
Power/ Interest Grid
5. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Oganization breakdown structure
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Expert Power
Root cause analysis
6. 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
External Contraints
90%
Nonconformance
Resource breakdown structure
7. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Charismatic
Contingency Reserves
Risk breakdown structure
FORMAL Communication
8. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Confronting/ Problem solving
Expectancy Theory
Project Slack
Progress Report
9. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Plan Risk Mgmt
Free (or Total) float
10. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
External Contraints
Change Control Board
RAM charts
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
11. 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
Summary Schdule
Mutual Exclusivity
Judgemental methods
Analogous or Top down Estimating
12. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Milestone Schedule
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Project Selection
Causal/econometric
13. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Indentify Stakholders
Just-in-time (JIT)
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Oganization breakdown structure
14. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Create WBS
Mgmt Reserves
Rolling Wave Planning
15. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Project Slack
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Director
External Comm
16. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Judgemental methods
Scheduling
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Autocratic
17. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
Fringe
Commincations Mgmt plan
Unoffical Comm
RAM charts
18. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Start to Start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Charateristics of a project
Stakeholder Analysis
19. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Finish to Finish
Root cause analysis
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Power/Influence Grid
20. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Closing the project
Project Scope Statement
Oganization breakdown structure
Formal Power
21. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Mutual Exclusivity
Project Selection
Bill of materials
Pure Risk
22. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Power/ Interest Grid
Power/Influence Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Smoothing and withdrawal
23. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Life-cycle costing
24. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Organization Breakdown Structure
Implied warranty
Smoothing and withdrawal
Smoothing/Accommodating
25. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Run Chart
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Distribute Information
Resource leveling
26. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Business Risk
Confronting/ Problem solving
Work around
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
27. 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
Mgmt by Objectives
Interactive Communication
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
28. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Work around
Make money and to protect the public
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
A lead
29. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Communications requirement analysis
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Controlling communication
30. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Autocratic
Pull Communication
31. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Compromising
LAG
32. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
LAG
Vertical Comm
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Time series method
33. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Elements of scope
Project Selection
Benchmarking
Communications requirement analysis
34. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Push Communications
Judgemental methods
Run of Seven Rule
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
35. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Create WBS
People responsible for quality
Influence/Impact grid
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
36. 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
6 sigma
Referent Power
Acquire Project Team
Summary Schdule
37. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Conformance
A Lag
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Develop Project Team
38. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Charismatic
Scope Baseline
Design of Experiments
Withdrawing/Avoiding
39. 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.
Scatter Diagram
Commincations Mgmt plan
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Stakeholder Analysis
40. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Milestone Schedule
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
41. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Oganization breakdown structure
LAG
Organization Breakdown Structure
Level of Scope development
42. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Conformance
Statistical Independence
Run of Seven Rule
Verbal and Non-verbal
43. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Team development Life Cycle
Sigma
44. Communication with peers
Statistical Independence
Horizontal Comm
Monte Carlo Technique
Controlling communication
45. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Work Package
Approved Change
Just-in-time (JIT)
Director
46. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Hygiene factors
Approved Change
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Progress Report
47. 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.
Risk Register
Elements of scope
Project Selection
Design of Experiments
48. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Reward Power
Run Chart
Bill of materials
Business Risk
49. 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)
Smoothing/Accommodating
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Secondary Risk
Critical Path Method
50. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Facilitator
External Contraints
External Comm
Perks