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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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.






2. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






3. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






4. 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






5. 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






6. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






7. Shows the type of resources broken down






8. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people






9. 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






10. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






11. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






12. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






13. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






14. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






15. 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






16. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






17. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars






18. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






19. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






20. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation






21. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






22. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






23. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






24. 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






25. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






26. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






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






28. Communication in writing or oral






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

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






31. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






32. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






33. 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






34. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






35. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






36. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






37. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






38. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






39. What is the number source of conflict?






40. 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






41. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






42. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






43. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






44. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






45. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






46. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






47. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






48. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






49. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






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







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