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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Status Reports
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
External Comm
Monte Carlo Technique
2. 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
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Compromising
Zero duration
3. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Secondary Risk
Root cause analysis
Influence/Impact Grid
Fast Tracking
4. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Critical Chain Method
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Risk breakdown structure
A lead
5. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Secondary Risk
Verbal and Non-verbal
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Cost of Quality
6. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Zero duration
Run of Seven Rule
Facilitator
Horizontal Comm
7. 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
Push Communications
A lead
Causal/econometric
Phase results are verified and documented
8. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Critical Path Method
Oganization breakdown structure
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Internal comm
9. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Fringe
Salience Model
Strong Matrix
Gold Plating
10. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Status Reports
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Root cause analysis
Referent Power
11. 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
Unoffical Comm
Acquire Project Team
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Salience Model
12. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Status Reports
Implied warranty
Brainstorming
Level of Scope development
13. Shows the type of resources broken down
Status Reports
Mutual Exclusivity
Concept of the Halo Theory
Resource breakdown structure
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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Organization Breakdown Structure
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
15. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Nonconformance
Make money and to protect the public
Develop Human Resource Plan
16. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Salience Model
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Crashing
Summary Schdule
17. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Work Authorization System
Risk Triggers
Crashing
Implied warranty
18. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Status Reports
Interactive Communication
External Comm
External Contraints
19. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Perks
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Impact
FORMAL Communication
20. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Mgmt Reserves
Project Slack
Power/ Interest Grid
Project Scope Statment
21. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Facilitator
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Plan Risk Mgmt
22. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
FORMAL Communication
Coaching
Free (or Total) float
23. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Risk breakdown structure
RAM charts
Indentify Stakholders
Start to Finsh
24. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Vertical Comm
Design of Experiments
Indentify Risk
Mediator
25. 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.
Forcing
Scope Baseline
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Benchmarking
26. 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.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
27. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Breach
Offical
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Report Performance
28. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Risk Triggers
External Comm
Business Risk
Sigma
29. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Indentify Stakholders
Report Performance
A lead
Cost plus percentage of cost
30. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
n *(n -1) /2
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Code of Accounts
31. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Work Package
Causal/econometric
Total Quality Management TQM
PMIS
32. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Pull Communication
Sample Testing
Delphi Technique
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
33. 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
Residual Risk
Work Authorization System
Change Control Board
Critical Chain Method
34. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
Bill of materials
Smoothing/Accommodating
Fringe
35. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Breach
Expert Power
Change Control Board
Implied warranty
36. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Change Control Board
Expectancy Theory
Project Slack
Phase results are verified and documented
37. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Project Scope Statment
Mgmt Reserves
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Statistical Independence
38. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Just-in-time (JIT)
Closing the project
Demings' 14 principles of Management
39. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Reward Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Coaching
Phase results are verified and documented
40. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Strong Matrix
Unoffical Comm
Manage Project Team
Distribute Information
41. 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.
Controlling communication
Assumptions
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Time series method
42. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Resource leveling
Brainstorming
Business Risk
Pure Risk
43. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Written or oral
Monte Carlo Technique
LAG
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
44. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Verbal and Non-verbal
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
45. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Time series method
Controlling communication
Sample Testing
46. 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
Contraints
Bill of materials
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Scheduling
47. Communication with peers
Work Authorization System
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Horizontal Comm
48. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Team development Life Cycle
Offical
Design of Experiments
FORMAL Communication
49. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Hygiene factors
Internal comm
Collaborating
50. 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
Controlling communication
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Risk Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up Estimating