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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Referent Power
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Elements of scope
2. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Work Package
Smoothing/Accommodating
3. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Coaching
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Project Scope Statment
4. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Level of Scope development
Closing the project
Charateristics of a project
Director
5. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Offical
Plan Communication
Crashing
The 100% Rule
6. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Secondary Risk
People responsible for quality
Mutual Exclusivity
7. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Root cause analysis
Mediator
Confronting/ Problem solving
Risk Owner
8. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Contingency Reserves
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Hygiene factors
Status Reports
9. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Expectancy Theory
Salience Model
Mutual Exclusivity
Team development Life Cycle
10. Communication with peers
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Horizontal Comm
Written or oral
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
11. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Vertical Comm
Project Slack
Push Communications
12. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Verbal and Non-verbal
Milestone Schedule
Bill of materials
Resource breakdown structure
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
Mgmt by Objectives
Summary Schdule
Change Control Board
Project Scope Statement
14. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Work Package
Pull Communication
Risk Breakdown Structure
Reward Power
15. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution
6 sigma
Charateristics of a project
Influence/Impact Grid
Oganization breakdown structure
16. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Project Selection
Concept of the Halo Theory
Business Risk
17. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Free (or Total) float
Start to Finsh
18. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Causal/econometric
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
90%
Risk Register
19. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Develop Project Team
Cost of Quality
Withdrawing/Avoiding
20. 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
Life-cycle costing
A lead
Confronting/ Problem solving
PMIS
21. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Written or oral
Manage Project Team
PMIS
Indentify Risk
22. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Push Communications
Penalty Power
Risk Register
23. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Salience Model
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
6 sigma
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
24. 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
Coaching
Forcasting
Pareto Diagram
Expert Power
25. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Report Performance
Work around
Scope Baseline
26. 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
LAG
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Work Authorization System
27. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Bottom-up estimating
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Change Control System
Director
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
Collaborating
Emphasis on defining scope
Analogous or Top down Estimating
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
29. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Impact
Summary Schdule
3 Processes of quality managment
Offical
30. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Resource leveling
Variance Analysis
Director
31. 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.
Power/ Interest Grid
Scope Baseline
Work Authorization System
Summary Schdule
32. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Time series method
Delphi Technique
Project management and quality
Charismatic
33. What is the number source of conflict?
Influence/Impact Grid
Scheduling
Rolling Wave Planning
90%
34. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Salience Model
Business Risk
Forcasting
Root cause analysis
35. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Visionary
Start to Finsh
Project Scope Statment
36. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Project Slack
90%
Controlling communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
37. Difference between internal and external risk
Indentify Stakholders
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Mediator
Smoothing and withdrawal
38. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Critical Chain Method
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Project Slack
39. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Delphi Technique
Emphasis on defining scope
Communications requirement analysis
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
40. 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.
Influence/Impact grid
Commincations Mgmt plan
Distribute Information
Fast Tracking
41. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Bottom-up Estimating
External Contraints
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Push Communications
42. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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43. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Create WBS
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Verbal and Non-verbal
44. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Written or oral
Fringe
45. 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
Mediator
Root cause analysis
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Project Selection
46. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Business Risk
Conformance
Work Authorization System
Free (or Total) float
47. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Rolling Wave Planning
Facilitator
48. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Cost of Quality
Strong Matrix
Elements of scope
49. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Smoothing/Accommodating
Confronting/ Problem solving
Gold Plating
3 Processes of quality managment
50. 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)
Contingency Reserves
Staffing Mgmt Plan
LAG
Variance Analysis