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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. A milestone has a ______duration
Zero duration
Rolling Wave Planning
Elements of scope
Implied warranty
2. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Pure Risk
Elements of scope
Pull Communication
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
3. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Change Control System
Conformance
Run of Seven Rule
Implied warranty
4. 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.
Commincations Mgmt plan
Make money and to protect the public
Formal Power
Delphi Technique
5. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Gold Plating
Expert Power
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Resource leveling
6. 3 main components of the communication model
Mediator
Run of Seven Rule
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Phase results are verified and documented
7. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
The 100% Rule
Approved Change
Facilitator
Power/ Interest Grid
8. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Project Scope Statment
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Project management and quality
9. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Critical Chain Method
Power/ Interest Grid
Perks
Causal/econometric
10. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Referent Power
Milestone list
Judgemental methods
11. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Mediator
Project management and quality
Impact
Schedules - project priorities - resources
12. 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
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Compromising
Bill of materials
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
13. 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
Elements of scope
LAG
Project Slack
Interactive Communication
14. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
External Contraints
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Horizontal Comm
Bottom-up estimating
15. 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.
Facilitator
Push Communications
Emphasis on defining scope
Fast Tracking
16. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Communications requirement analysis
Status Reports
Just-in-time (JIT)
Formal Power
17. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Report Performance
Cost of Quality
Delphi Technique
18. 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.
Organization Breakdown Structure
FORMAL Communication
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Forcing
19. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
Elements of scope
Collaborating
Run of Seven Rule
20. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Approved Change
Project Scope Statement
Judgemental methods
21. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Rolling Wave Planning
FORMAL Communication
Power/ Interest Grid
Project Selection
22. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
External Contraints
Fast Tracking
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Judgemental methods
23. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Plan Communication
Causal/econometric
Create WBS
24. 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.
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Indentify Risk
Fast Tracking
PMIS
25. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
PMIS
Forcasting
Smoothing/Accommodating
Risk Register
26. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Distribute Information
Benchmarking
Implied warranty
Organization Breakdown Structure
27. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Sigma
Facilitator
Expert Power
Rolling Wave Planning
28. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Run Chart
Activity List
Indentify Stakholders
29. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Brainstorming
Just-in-time (JIT)
Pull Communication
Sample Testing
30. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Visionary
Smoothing and withdrawal
Communications requirement analysis
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
31. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan
Resource leveling
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Benchmarking
Start to Start
32. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Rolling Wave Planning
Variance Analysis
Oganization breakdown structure
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.
Activity List
Referent Power
Verbal and Non-verbal
Design of Experiments
34. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Autocratic
Develop Project Charter
Pull Communication
35. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
90%
Mgmt Reserves
Time series method
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
36. 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
Compromising
Summary Schdule
Design of Experiments
Develop Project Charter
37. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Benchmarking
Offical
3 Processes of quality managment
Scatter Diagram
38. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Confronting/ Problem solving
Delphi Technique
Influence/Impact grid
39. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Risk Breakdown Structure
Salience Model
Bottom-up estimating
6 sigma
40. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
RAM charts
Closing the project
Total Quality Management TQM
41. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Bill of materials
Risk Breakdown Structure
Distribute Information
Report Performance
42. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Closing the project
Status Reports
Offical
Gold Plating
43. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Cost plus percentage of cost
Delphi Technique
Bill of materials
Perks
44. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Business Risk
Stakeholder Analysis
Finish to Start (Most common)
Mgmt Reserves
45. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Work Authorization System
Change Control Board
Start to Finsh
Vertical Comm
46. 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
Power/ Interest Grid
Offical
Coaching
Demings' 14 principles of Management
47. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Formal Power
Elements of scope
Penalty Power
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
48. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Mgmt Reserves
Statistical Independence
Root cause analysis
Written or oral
49. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
Scheduling
Root cause analysis
Smoothing/Accommodating
Referent Power
50. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Develop Human Resource Plan
Approved Change
Start to Finsh
90%