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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






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






3. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






4. 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






5. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






6. Delphi Technique Interviewing






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






11. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






12. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






13. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






14. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






15. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






16. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






17. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






18. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






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






20. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






22. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






23. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






24. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible






25. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






26. Communication that is not on the record






27. What is the output of Identify Risk?






28. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






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






30. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






31. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Commuincation within the project






35. 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.






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






37. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






38. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






39. Communication with peers






40. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






41. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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42. 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






43. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards






44. Difference between internal and external risk






45. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






46. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start







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