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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Forcing
Manage Project Team
Concept of the Halo Theory
Start to Start
2. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Risk Owner
Work around
Project management and quality
Conformance
3. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Interactive Communication
Benchmarking
Design of Experiments
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
4. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Residual Risk
The 100% Rule
Nonconformance
Schedules - project priorities - resources
5. 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.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Written or oral
Scope Baseline
Causal/econometric
6. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Fast Tracking
Confronting/ Problem solving
Phase results are verified and documented
People responsible for quality
7. 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
Elements of scope
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Progress Report
Project Scope Statment
8. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Residual Risk
Push Communications
Run Chart
9. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Indentify Stakholders
Total Quality Management TQM
Scheduling
Risk breakdown structure
10. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Requested Changes
Judgemental methods
Resource leveling
Change Control Board
11. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Risk Owner
Residual Risk
Offical
Fringe
12. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Contraints
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Project Selection
Brainstorming
13. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Life-cycle costing
Create WBS
Finish to Finish
14. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Emphasis on defining scope
Smoothing/Accommodating
Oganization breakdown structure
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
15. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Progress Report
Activity List
Total Quality Management TQM
Critical Path Method
16. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Confronting/ Problem solving
Implied warranty
Develop Project Charter
Breach
17. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Develop Human Resource Plan
Hygiene factors
Oganization breakdown structure
18. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Project management and quality
Project Slack
Rolling Wave Planning
Impact
19. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Acquire Project Team
Project Scope Statement
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
20. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Design of Experiments
Risk Register
Schedules - project priorities - resources
21. Communication that is not on the record
Unoffical Comm
Written or oral
Emphasis on defining scope
Work Package
22. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Controlling communication
Reward Power
Influence/Impact Grid
Risk Owner
23. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Bottom-up Estimating
Pure Risk
Contraints
Influence/Impact Grid
24. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Referent Power
Bottom-up estimating
Monte Carlo Technique
Total Quality Management TQM
25. 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
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Resource breakdown structure
Root cause analysis
Risk Owner
26. Form - creation of the team - Storm - refers to the chaos that occurs when people start working together - Norm - behavior starts to normalize - Perform - activity that transpires as the team works as a team instead of solo - Adjourn - work is compl
Team development Life Cycle
Develop Project Charter
Influence/Impact grid
Demings' 14 principles of Management
27. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Impact
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Statistical Independence
28. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Referent Power
Organization Breakdown Structure
Activity List
FORMAL Communication
29. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Residual Risk
Milestone Schedule
Fast Tracking
30. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Penalty Power
Power/Influence Grid
Secondary Risk
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
31. A milestone has a ______duration
Sigma
Zero duration
Charateristics of a project
Judgemental methods
32. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Power/Influence Grid
Status Reports
Project Slack
Statistical Independence
33. 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.
Horizontal Comm
Acquire Project Team
Manage Project Team
Forcing
34. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Manage Project Team
Crashing
Director
Pull Communication
35. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Mgmt Reserves
Design of Experiments
Bill of materials
36. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Root cause analysis
Develop Project Team
Controlling communication
Work Authorization System
37. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Internal comm
Mgmt by Objectives
Team development Life Cycle
Perks
38. 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
Work Authorization System
Project Scope Statement
Start to Finsh
Breach
39. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Summary Schdule
Collaborating
Conformance
Power/ Interest Grid
40. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
External Contraints
Monte Carlo Technique
Work around
Sigma
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
Mediator
Compromising
Push Communications
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
42. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Level of Scope development
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Manage Project Team
Causal/econometric
43. 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
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Confronting/ Problem solving
Scope Baseline
Total Quality Management TQM
44. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Critical Chain Method
Forcasting
Root cause analysis
Critical Path Method
45. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Facilitator
Oganization breakdown structure
Demings' 14 principles of Management
46. 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.
Referent Power
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Report Performance
Verbal and Non-verbal
47. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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48. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Develop Project Charter
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Elements of scope
49. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Business Risk
Critical Path Method
Free (or Total) float
Gold Plating
50. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Organization Breakdown Structure
Nonconformance
Hygiene factors
Written or oral