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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Project Selection
Pure Risk
Start to Finsh
Business Risk
2. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Critical Chain Method
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Secondary Risk
Monte Carlo Technique
3. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Penalty Power
Smoothing and withdrawal
Level of Scope development
Plan Communication
4. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Implied warranty
Plan Communication
Influence/Impact grid
5. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th
Mediator
Total Quality Management TQM
Bottom-up Estimating
Critical Chain Method
6. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Change Control System
Cost of Quality
Perks
Work Authorization System
7. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Scope Statement
Written or oral
A lead
8. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Breach
Confronting/ Problem solving
Referent Power
Nonconformance
9. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Closing the project
FORMAL Communication
10. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
90%
External Comm
Visionary
Requested Changes
11. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Pure Risk
Statistical Independence
Run Chart
Crashing
12. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Brainstorming
Pareto Diagram
Secondary Risk
13. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Manage Project Team
Power/ Interest Grid
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Finish to Start (Most common)
14. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Breach
Risk Register
Activity List
15. 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
Penalty Power
Project Scope Statment
Manage Project Team
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
16. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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17. 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.
Rolling Wave Planning
The 100% Rule
Project Scope Statment
Influence/Impact grid
18. Communication in writing or oral
Start to Finsh
Contraints
Written or oral
Cost of Quality
19. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Pull Communication
Forcasting
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Salience Model
20. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Total Quality Management TQM
Sample Testing
Nonconformance
Project management and quality
21. 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
Fringe
Elements of scope
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Develop Human Resource Plan
22. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Approved Change
Impact
Work Authorization System
23. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Formal Power
Mutual Exclusivity
Project Slack
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
24. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
n *(n -1) /2
Written or oral
Plan Risk Mgmt
25. A milestone has a ______duration
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Zero duration
Nonconformance
Resource breakdown structure
26. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Resource breakdown structure
Scope Baseline
Risk Triggers
n *(n -1) /2
27. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Root cause analysis
Create WBS
Bottom-up estimating
Expectancy Theory
28. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
PMIS
Interactive Communication
Finish to Finish
Time series method
29. 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
Strong Matrix
Staffing Mgmt Plan
30. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Activity List
Nonconformance
Hygiene factors
Cost of Quality
31. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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32. 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.
Critical Chain Method
Influence/Impact grid
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Scope Baseline
33. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Zero duration
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Monte Carlo Technique
34. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Risk Triggers
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Summary Schdule
Salience Model
35. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Written or oral
Brainstorming
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
36. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Contraints
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Pure Risk
37. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Business Risk
Causal/econometric
Power/ Interest Grid
38. 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.
Smoothing/Accommodating
Forcing
Resource leveling
Indentify Stakholders
39. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Power/ Interest Grid
Commincations Mgmt plan
n *(n -1) /2
40. 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
Stakeholder Analysis
Pull Communication
Risk Breakdown Structure
Fringe
41. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Contraints
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Concept of the Halo Theory
42. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Commincations Mgmt plan
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
43. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
Judgemental methods
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Variance Analysis
44. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Statistical Independence
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Judgemental methods
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
45. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
ISO 3 Steps
Verbal and Non-verbal
The 100% Rule
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
46. 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
Coaching
Assumptions
Approved Change
Influence/Impact Grid
47. Difference between internal and external risk
Time series method
Run Chart
Project Scope Statement
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
48. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues
Contraints
Run of Seven Rule
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
n *(n -1) /2
49. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Mgmt by Objectives
Code of Accounts
Life-cycle costing
Power/ Interest Grid
50. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Business Risk
Develop Project Charter
Code of Accounts
ISO 3 Steps