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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Interactive Communication
Monte Carlo Technique
Progress Report
Free (or Total) float
2. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Risk Owner
Influence/Impact grid
3. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Pareto Diagram
Fast Tracking
Critical Path Method
4. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Impact
Oganization breakdown structure
Emphasis on defining scope
Controlling communication
5. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Requested Changes
Forcing
Bottom-up Estimating
Start to Finsh
6. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Offical
Smoothing/Accommodating
Project management and quality
7. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Vertical Comm
Secondary Risk
Plan Communication
Pareto Diagram
8. 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
External Comm
Acquire Project Team
Interactive Communication
Scope Baseline
9. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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10. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Mediator
Salience Model
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Run Chart
11. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Project management and quality
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Verbal and Non-verbal
Work Authorization System
12. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Conformance
Oganization breakdown structure
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Implied warranty
13. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Risk breakdown structure
Crashing
Perks
Sigma
14. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Report Performance
FORMAL Communication
Critical Chain Method
Pareto Diagram
15. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Approved Change
Commincations Mgmt plan
16. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Pull Communication
Pure Risk
Project Selection
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
17. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Project Scope Statment
Unoffical Comm
Distribute Information
Withdrawing/Avoiding
18. One choice does not include any other choices
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Smoothing/Accommodating
Pull Communication
Mutual Exclusivity
19. 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.
Elements of scope
Visionary
Coaching
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
20. 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)
RAM charts
Brainstorming
Critical Path Method
Risk Owner
21. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Risk Triggers
Sample Testing
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
22. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Monte Carlo Technique
Code of Accounts
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
23. 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.
Collaborating
Scheduling
Risk Breakdown Structure
Influence/Impact Grid
24. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
Secondary Risk
Project Selection
25. 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
Distribute Information
Mediator
Written or oral
Rolling Wave Planning
26. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
External Comm
Risk Triggers
Indentify Stakholders
27. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
FORMAL Communication
PMIS
Project management and quality
Time series method
28. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
External Contraints
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
A Lag
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
29. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Scatter Diagram
Critical Chain Method
Power/Influence Grid
30. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
FORMAL Communication
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Residual Risk
31. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Smoothing and withdrawal
Develop Project Team
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Hygiene factors
32. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Push Communications
Resource breakdown structure
Cost of Quality
Forcasting
33. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Pure Risk
Implied warranty
Create WBS
Charismatic
34. 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
Resource leveling
Time series method
Bottom-up Estimating
Crashing
35. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Activity List
Coaching
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Scheduling
36. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Plan Risk Mgmt
People responsible for quality
Progress Report
Charismatic
37. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Charateristics of a project
Smoothing/Accommodating
Contingency Reserves
Just-in-time (JIT)
38. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Work around
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Bottom-up estimating
39. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Mgmt by Objectives
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Impact
Critical Chain Method
40. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Project Slack
Smoothing and withdrawal
Finish to Start (Most common)
Time series method
41. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Risk Triggers
Stakeholder Analysis
PMIS
Secondary Risk
42. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Conformance
Written or oral
Risk breakdown structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
43. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Bill of materials
Secondary Risk
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
44. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Charateristics of a project
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Work Authorization System
Rolling Wave Planning
45. Communication with peers
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Horizontal Comm
Time series method
Visionary
46. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
Just-in-time (JIT)
Salience Model
Commincations Mgmt plan
Business Risk
47. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Develop Human Resource Plan
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Team development Life Cycle
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
Expectancy Theory
Formal Power
Run Chart
Mgmt by Objectives
49. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Smoothing/Accommodating
Change Control Board
Coaching
Referent Power
50. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Mgmt by Objectives
Resource breakdown structure
Start to Finsh
Crashing