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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Just-in-time (JIT)
Causal/econometric
Rolling Wave Planning
Resource breakdown structure
2. 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
Benchmarking
Contraints
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Risk breakdown structure
3. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Fringe
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
4. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Schedules - project priorities - resources
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Rolling Wave Planning
Power/ Interest Grid
5. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Project Scope Statment
Hygiene factors
Indentify Stakholders
Oganization breakdown structure
6. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Scheduling
Fast Tracking
Cost of Quality
7. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Breach
Start to Finsh
Change Control Board
Resource breakdown structure
8. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Critical Chain Method
PMIS
Implied warranty
9. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
A lead
Work Authorization System
Benchmarking
Rolling Wave Planning
10. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Scheduling
Risk Register
Level of Scope development
Forcasting
11. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
90%
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Charateristics of a project
12. 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.
Forcing
Risk breakdown structure
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Residual Risk
13. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Emphasis on defining scope
Create WBS
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Pareto Diagram
14. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Manage Project Team
Gold Plating
RAM charts
Pure Risk
15. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
ISO 3 Steps
Organization Breakdown Structure
Change Control Board
16. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Penalty Power
Impact
Judgemental methods
Milestone list
17. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Push Communications
Run of Seven Rule
Offical
18. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Change Control System
Work Authorization System
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
A Lag
19. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution.
Risk breakdown structure
Commincations Mgmt plan
Influence/Impact grid
Withdrawing/Avoiding
20. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Offical
Cost plus percentage of cost
Rolling Wave Planning
21. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Reward Power
Rolling Wave Planning
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Offical
22. 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
Compromising
Create WBS
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
People responsible for quality
23. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Develop Project Team
Strong Matrix
24. 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.
Pure Risk
Root cause analysis
Communications requirement analysis
Visionary
25. 3 main components of the communication model
A lead
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Facilitator
Pure Risk
26. 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
Risk Triggers
Coaching
Acquire Project Team
Phase results are verified and documented
27. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Assumptions
Risk Triggers
3 Processes of quality managment
Staffing Mgmt Plan
28. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Develop Project Charter
Rolling Wave Planning
Run of Seven Rule
29. Communication that is not on the record
Visionary
Project Selection
Unoffical Comm
Start to Start
30. 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
Risk Owner
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Facilitator
31. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Collaborating
Scatter Diagram
Sigma
Risk Triggers
32. 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
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Hygiene factors
RAM charts
Contraints
33. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Milestone list
Code of Accounts
Contingency Reserves
Work around
34. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Withdrawing/Avoiding
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Secondary Risk
Mgmt by Objectives
35. 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
Internal comm
Mediator
External Comm
Withdrawing/Avoiding
36. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Status Reports
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Scope Baseline
Manage Project Team
37. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
People responsible for quality
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Nonconformance
Root cause analysis
38. 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
Run Chart
Start to Finsh
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Referent Power
39. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Status Reports
Sample Testing
Develop Project Charter
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
40. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Manage Project Team
Make money and to protect the public
Indentify Risk
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
41. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Resource breakdown structure
Judgemental methods
Salience Model
Hygiene factors
42. 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
Salience Model
Sample Testing
Horizontal Comm
Run of Seven Rule
43. Communication formula
Level of Scope development
Manage Project Team
Smoothing and withdrawal
n *(n -1) /2
44. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Hygiene factors
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Mgmt Reserves
Time series method
45. 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
Progress Report
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Run Chart
Summary Schdule
46. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Resource leveling
Causal/econometric
47. 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.
Team development Life Cycle
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Design of Experiments
Cost plus percentage of cost
48. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Organization Breakdown Structure
Milestone list
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
49. Commuincation within the project
Root cause analysis
Internal comm
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Mgmt by Objectives
50. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Design of Experiments
Expectancy Theory
Requested Changes