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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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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 that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Written or oral
Coaching
Contingency Reserves
2. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
90%
Work Authorization System
Referent Power
Progress Report
3. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Design of Experiments
Verbal and Non-verbal
Work around
4. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Monte Carlo Technique
Stakeholder Analysis
A Lag
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
5. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Finish to Start (Most common)
Power/ Interest Grid
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Work Package
6. 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
Finish to Finish
Compromising
Rolling Wave Planning
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
7. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Resource breakdown structure
Gold Plating
Requested Changes
8. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Sigma
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Start to Finsh
9. 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.
Benchmarking
Sigma
Forcing
Residual Risk
10. 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
Milestone list
Vertical Comm
Run of Seven Rule
RAM charts
11. 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
Visionary
Internal comm
Indentify Risk
Mediator
12. 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
Coaching
Business Risk
Change Control Board
13. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
90%
Power/Influence Grid
ISO 3 Steps
14. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem
Risk breakdown structure
Plan Communication
Organization Breakdown Structure
Pareto Diagram
15. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Distribute Information
Scheduling
External Contraints
Crashing
16. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Interactive Communication
Progress Report
Cost plus percentage of cost
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
17. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
FORMAL Communication
Power/ Interest Grid
Verbal and Non-verbal
Charateristics of a project
18. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Crashing
Sample Testing
Collaborating
Zero duration
19. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Free (or Total) float
Forcasting
External Contraints
Cost of Quality
20. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Risk Register
Mediator
Start to Finsh
Work Package
21. Communication formula
Resource leveling
Pure Risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
n *(n -1) /2
22. 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
Commincations Mgmt plan
Manage Project Team
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Power/Influence Grid
23. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Root cause analysis
Emphasis on defining scope
ISO 3 Steps
Requested Changes
24. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Work Authorization System
Vertical Comm
Requested Changes
25. 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
Root cause analysis
Summary Schdule
Residual Risk
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
26. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Phase results are verified and documented
Work Authorization System
Sigma
27. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Implied warranty
Reward Power
Scatter Diagram
Crashing
28. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Resource breakdown structure
Charateristics of a project
Conformance
29. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Make money and to protect the public
Salience Model
Unoffical Comm
People responsible for quality
30. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Variance Analysis
Start to Start
Gold Plating
31. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Perks
Team development Life Cycle
Work around
32. 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)
Secondary Risk
Sample Testing
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Salience Model
33. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Business Risk
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Benchmarking
Smoothing and withdrawal
34. Communication that is not on the record
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Indentify Risk
Unoffical Comm
Start to Finsh
35. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Cost plus percentage of cost
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Zero duration
Pure Risk
36. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Free (or Total) float
Mutual Exclusivity
Sigma
ISO 3 Steps
37. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Life-cycle costing
Mgmt Reserves
Smoothing and withdrawal
38. 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
Resource breakdown structure
n *(n -1) /2
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Commincations Mgmt plan
39. 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
Unoffical Comm
Project Scope Statment
Reward Power
Referent Power
40. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Fast Tracking
3 Processes of quality managment
External Comm
Create WBS
41. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Pull Communication
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
42. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
RAM charts
Gold Plating
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
43. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Visionary
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Communications requirement analysis
Risk Triggers
44. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Referent Power
Manage Project Team
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Critical Path Method
45. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Indentify Stakholders
Director
Root cause analysis
46. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Report Performance
Unoffical Comm
Salience Model
RAM charts
47. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Residual Risk
Design of Experiments
Approved Change
48. One choice does not include any other choices
Causal/econometric
Coaching
Mutual Exclusivity
Forcasting
49. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Start to Start
Life-cycle costing
Stakeholder Analysis
50. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Scatter Diagram
Sample Testing
Run of Seven Rule
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)