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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Scope Baseline
Horizontal Comm
Create WBS
2. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Phase results are verified and documented
Pareto Diagram
Level of Scope development
Breach
3. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Plan Risk Mgmt
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Status Reports
Sigma
4. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Concept of the Halo Theory
Develop Project Charter
Status Reports
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
5. 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
Charismatic
Forcasting
Horizontal Comm
6. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Vertical Comm
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Smoothing/Accommodating
7. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Autocratic
Acquire Project Team
LAG
Reward Power
8. 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.
Visionary
Causal/econometric
Life-cycle costing
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
9. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil
Milestone Schedule
Compromising
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Assumptions
10. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Risk Triggers
Brainstorming
Interactive Communication
Sample Testing
11. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Fringe
Risk Register
Acquire Project Team
Business Risk
12. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Progress Report
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
13. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Plan Risk Mgmt
Power/ Interest Grid
Conformance
Root cause analysis
14. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Charismatic
Project Slack
Strong Matrix
15. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Manage Project Team
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Salience Model
16. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Risk breakdown structure
Facilitator
Sigma
Distribute Information
17. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Manage Project Team
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Pull Communication
Statistical Independence
18. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Influence/Impact Grid
A Lag
Phase results are verified and documented
Residual Risk
19. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Total Quality Management TQM
Unoffical Comm
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
20. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Life-cycle costing
Level of Scope development
Plan Risk Mgmt
Contraints
21. 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
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22. 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
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
90%
Resource leveling
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
23. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Run of Seven Rule
Root cause analysis
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Change Control Board
24. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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25. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Staffing Mgmt Plan
FORMAL Communication
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
26. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Milestone Schedule
Collaborating
Finish to Start (Most common)
Bill of materials
27. Commuincation within the project
Judgemental methods
Brainstorming
Internal comm
Develop Human Resource Plan
28. 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
Internal comm
Monte Carlo Technique
Team development Life Cycle
Vertical Comm
29. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Risk Owner
Smoothing and withdrawal
6 sigma
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
30. What is the number source of conflict?
Acquire Project Team
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Scheduling
Distribute Information
31. 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.
Root cause analysis
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
External Contraints
Risk Breakdown Structure
32. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Referent Power
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Make money and to protect the public
33. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
Written or oral
LAG
Mgmt by Objectives
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
34. 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
Approved Change
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
RAM charts
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
35. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Start to Start
Concept of the Halo Theory
Strong Matrix
Critical Chain Method
36. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Root cause analysis
Oganization breakdown structure
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Pure Risk
37. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Critical Chain Method
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Smoothing/Accommodating
38. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.
Plan Communication
Develop Human Resource Plan
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
39. 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
3 Processes of quality managment
Coaching
Time series method
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
40. 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
Director
Confronting/ Problem solving
Activity List
Total Quality Management TQM
41. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Autocratic
Activity List
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Project Scope Statment
42. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Forcasting
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Pure Risk
Statistical Independence
43. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Work around
Run of Seven Rule
People responsible for quality
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
44. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Resource breakdown structure
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Develop Human Resource Plan
Bill of materials
45. 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)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Confronting/ Problem solving
Controlling communication
Oganization breakdown structure
46. 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
Change Control Board
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Fast Tracking
Statistical Independence
47. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Verbal and Non-verbal
Penalty Power
Resource breakdown structure
Level of Scope development
48. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
FORMAL Communication
Plan Risk Mgmt
Benchmarking
Progress Report
49. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Monte Carlo Technique
Plan Risk Mgmt
External Contraints
Code of Accounts
50. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Gold Plating
Hygiene factors
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes