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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Director
External Contraints
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Triggers
2. 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
Power/Influence Grid
Coaching
Fast Tracking
Salience Model
3. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Expert Power
Risk Triggers
Verbal and Non-verbal
4. 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
A lead
Just-in-time (JIT)
Risk Register
Run Chart
5. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Pareto Diagram
Work Package
Causal/econometric
Sigma
6. 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
Closing the project
Elements of scope
Impact
Communications requirement analysis
7. 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
Assumptions
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Impact
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
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
Elements of scope
Run Chart
Coaching
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
9. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Power/Influence Grid
Stakeholder Analysis
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Finish to Finish
10. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
A lead
Work Authorization System
Manage Project Team
11. Commuincation within the project
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Internal comm
Smoothing/Accommodating
Root cause analysis
12. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Project Selection
External Contraints
Expert Power
13. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Resource breakdown structure
Cost plus percentage of cost
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
14. 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.
Pareto Diagram
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Rolling Wave Planning
Activity List
15. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Unoffical Comm
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
16. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Resource breakdown structure
External Comm
Monte Carlo Technique
Work Authorization System
17. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
Risk Triggers
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Critical Chain Method
18. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Activity List
Brainstorming
Analogous or Top down Estimating
ISO 3 Steps
19. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Power/Influence Grid
Change Control Board
Sample Testing
20. 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
Resource leveling
Reward Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Residual Risk
21. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Summary Schdule
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Influence/Impact Grid
Charismatic
22. 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.
Project Scope Statment
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Fast Tracking
Scope Baseline
23. 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
Power/ Interest Grid
Acquire Project Team
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Bottom-up estimating
24. Communication with peers
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Horizontal Comm
Communications requirement analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
25. 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
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Cost plus percentage of cost
Confronting/ Problem solving
26. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Controlling communication
Risk Triggers
Expectancy Theory
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
27. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Total Quality Management TQM
Scatter Diagram
Cost plus percentage of cost
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
28. 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
Work Authorization System
Mutual Exclusivity
Crashing
Develop Project Team
29. 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
Risk breakdown structure
Project Slack
Schedules - project priorities - resources
30. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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31. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Project management and quality
Power/ Interest Grid
Pure Risk
32. 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
Develop Human Resource Plan
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Critical Path Method
Milestone Schedule
33. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Smoothing and withdrawal
Influence/Impact Grid
ISO 3 Steps
Interactive Communication
34. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Expectancy Theory
Scheduling
35. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Coaching
Make money and to protect the public
Rolling Wave Planning
36. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Develop Project Team
Root cause analysis
Manage Project Team
Sample Testing
37. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Design of Experiments
Code of Accounts
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Plan Communication
38. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Indentify Risk
Finish to Start (Most common)
Assumptions
Report Performance
39. 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
Work around
Approved Change
Activity List
40. 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
Level of Scope development
Resource breakdown structure
Forcasting
Report Performance
41. 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
Gold Plating
Risk Triggers
Pareto Diagram
Plan Communication
42. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Plan Risk Mgmt
Free (or Total) float
LAG
43. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Project management and quality
Gold Plating
Formal Power
Push Communications
44. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Approved Change
Scatter Diagram
Indentify Stakholders
Rolling Wave Planning
45. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Charateristics of a project
The 100% Rule
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Activity List
46. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Root cause analysis
Vertical Comm
Change Control System
47. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Plan Risk Mgmt
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Concept of the Halo Theory
48. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Conformance
Life-cycle costing
Zero duration
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
49. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
FORMAL Communication
Residual Risk
Judgemental methods
Internal comm
50. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Nonconformance
Internal comm
Indentify Risk
Emphasis on defining scope
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