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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
3 Processes of quality managment
Charateristics of a project
Status Reports
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
Work Authorization System
Crashing
Pull Communication
Interactive Communication
3. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
90%
Implied warranty
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
4. 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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
FORMAL Communication
Forcasting
5. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Status Reports
Judgemental methods
Critical Path Method
Charismatic
6. 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
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Bill of materials
Acquire Project Team
Contraints
7. 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.
Business Risk
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Forcing
External Contraints
8. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Judgemental methods
Resource leveling
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Resource breakdown structure
9. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Resource breakdown structure
People responsible for quality
Brainstorming
Acquire Project Team
10. A milestone has a ______duration
Activity List
Develop Human Resource Plan
Critical Path Method
Zero duration
11. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Finish to Finish
Influence/Impact Grid
Written or oral
A lead
12. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Project Scope Statement
Contingency Reserves
Risk Register
Push Communications
13. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
Mediator
The 100% Rule
Risk Breakdown Structure
Schedules - project priorities - resources
14. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
Root cause analysis
Activity List
Bill of materials
15. 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
Elements of scope
Verbal and Non-verbal
Charismatic
LAG
16. 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
Manage Project Team
Scheduling
Rolling Wave Planning
Crashing
17. 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
Work Authorization System
Contraints
Finish to Finish
Project Scope Statement
18. Key tool that is a statistical method or tool - that helps identify which factors may influence specific variable of a product or process under development or in production. It lets you change many factors at once.
Implied warranty
Project Scope Statement
Run Chart
Design of Experiments
19. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Bottom-up estimating
Scheduling
Crashing
Internal comm
20. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Coaching
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Resource leveling
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
21. 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
Offical
Milestone list
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Bottom-up Estimating
22. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
23. Communication up and down the organization
Finish to Start (Most common)
Milestone Schedule
Vertical Comm
Make money and to protect the public
24. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Brainstorming
Breach
Facilitator
Indentify Stakholders
25. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Distribute Information
Bill of materials
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
26. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
Horizontal Comm
Level of Scope development
Manage Project Team
27. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Plan Risk Mgmt
Push Communications
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
28. 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
Summary Schdule
Risk Register
Pull Communication
Resource breakdown structure
29. One choice does not include any other choices
Mutual Exclusivity
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Scatter Diagram
Work around
30. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Brainstorming
Conformance
Time series method
Staffing Mgmt Plan
31. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Indentify Risk
Impact
Nonconformance
Crashing
32. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Report Performance
Collaborating
Indentify Stakholders
Resource breakdown structure
33. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Commincations Mgmt plan
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Implied warranty
34. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Pure Risk
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Penalty Power
Manage Project Team
35. 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
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Verbal and Non-verbal
Charismatic
Approved Change
36. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Offical
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Variance Analysis
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
37. Commuincation within the project
Summary Schdule
Push Communications
Internal comm
Work Package
38. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Secondary Risk
Nonconformance
Team development Life Cycle
Sample Testing
39. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Risk Owner
Cost plus percentage of cost
90%
Critical Path Method
40. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Risk Owner
Run of Seven Rule
Work around
Change Control Board
41. 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)
Risk Owner
External Comm
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Reward Power
42. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Salience Model
Internal comm
Monte Carlo Technique
Cost plus percentage of cost
43. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
44. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Risk Breakdown Structure
Benchmarking
Push Communications
Residual Risk
45. 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.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Oganization breakdown structure
Written or oral
Visionary
46. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Project Selection
Internal comm
Influence/Impact Grid
Develop Human Resource Plan
47. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
48. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Just-in-time (JIT)
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Plan Risk Mgmt
49. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Work Authorization System
Horizontal Comm
Progress Report
Work around
50. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Activity List
Indentify Risk
Status Reports