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PMP: Project Management Professional

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Difference between internal and external risk






2. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






3. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






4. Communication up and down the organization






5. What is the number source of conflict?






6. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






7. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






8. 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.






9. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






10. 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






11. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






12. 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






13. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






14. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






15. 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






16. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






17. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






18. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






19. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






20. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






21. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






22. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






23. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






24. Communication in writing or oral






25. 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






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






27. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






28. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






29. 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






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






31. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






32. 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






33. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






34. 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






35. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






36. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






37. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






38. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






39. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






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

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41. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






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






43. 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






44. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






45. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






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






47. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






48. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






49. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






50. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement

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