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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
RAM charts
Milestone Schedule
Risk breakdown structure
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
2. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Approved Change
Director
Influence/Impact Grid
3. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Charismatic
Unoffical Comm
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Risk Register
4. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Bottom-up Estimating
90%
Free (or Total) float
5. 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
Assumptions
Penalty Power
Life-cycle costing
6. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Verbal and Non-verbal
Interactive Communication
3 Processes of quality managment
Cost of Quality
7. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Director
Develop Human Resource Plan
Start to Start
8. 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
Coaching
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Work Authorization System
The 100% Rule
9. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Sigma
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Coaching
10. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Requested Changes
Team development Life Cycle
Organization Breakdown Structure
11. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Sample Testing
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Rolling Wave Planning
12. 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
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Rolling Wave Planning
Phase results are verified and documented
Internal comm
13. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mutual Exclusivity
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
14. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Assumptions
Smoothing/Accommodating
Verbal and Non-verbal
Benchmarking
15. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Offical
Total Quality Management TQM
Root cause analysis
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
16. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Communications requirement analysis
90%
Rolling Wave Planning
Smoothing/Accommodating
17. 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
Start to Finsh
Plan Risk Mgmt
Project management and quality
18. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Risk Triggers
n *(n -1) /2
Secondary Risk
Penalty Power
19. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Mutual Exclusivity
Indentify Risk
20. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Oganization breakdown structure
Benchmarking
6 sigma
Finish to Finish
21. 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
Create WBS
Bottom-up Estimating
Make money and to protect the public
Start to Start
22. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Distribute Information
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Risk breakdown structure
23. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
The 100% Rule
Create WBS
Approved Change
Breach
24. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Internal comm
Manage Project Team
Fast Tracking
25. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
PMIS
Residual Risk
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
26. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Hygiene factors
90%
Horizontal Comm
Communications requirement analysis
27. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Penalty Power
Mgmt by Objectives
Scheduling
28. 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
Phase results are verified and documented
LAG
3 Processes of quality managment
29. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Emphasis on defining scope
Total Quality Management TQM
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Report Performance
30. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Rolling Wave Planning
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Referent Power
Facilitator
31. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Plan Communication
Fringe
Formal Power
Milestone list
32. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Risk Register
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Smoothing and withdrawal
Approved Change
33. 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.
Activity List
Scope Baseline
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Rolling Wave Planning
34. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Hygiene factors
Offical
Coaching
A Lag
35. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Sigma
Delphi Technique
Level of Scope development
Scope Baseline
36. Difference between internal and external risk
Impact
Indentify Stakholders
Plan Communication
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
37. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
6 sigma
Develop Project Charter
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
38. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Autocratic
Develop Project Team
Push Communications
Critical Path Method
39. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Report Performance
Work Package
Contingency Reserves
Resource breakdown structure
40. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
People responsible for quality
Root cause analysis
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Free (or Total) float
41. 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
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mgmt Reserves
Autocratic
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43. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Manage Project Team
Power/ Interest Grid
Judgemental methods
Charismatic
44. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Create WBS
Work around
Change Control System
45. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Scatter Diagram
Activity List
Requested Changes
Project Scope Statment
46. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Create WBS
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk Triggers
Develop Project Charter
47. One choice does not include any other choices
Business Risk
Mutual Exclusivity
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Verbal and Non-verbal
48. 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
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Mgmt by Objectives
Secondary Risk
Distribute Information
49. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Run Chart
Phase results are verified and documented
Project Scope Statment
Change Control System
50. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Approved Change
Analogous or Top down Estimating
IRR - Interal Rate of Return