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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






2. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






3. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






4. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






5. A milestone has a ______duration






6. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success






7. 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






8. 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






9. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






10. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






11. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






12. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area






13. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






14. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






15. 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.






16. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






17. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






18. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






19. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






20. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






21. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






22. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






23. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






24. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






25. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






26. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






27. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






28. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






29. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






30. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






31. 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






32. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






33. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






34. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






35. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel






36. 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






37. 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.






38. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






39. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






40. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






41. 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.






42. Commuincation within the project






43. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






44. 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






45. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






46. 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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






50. 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