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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






2. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






3. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






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






5. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






6. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






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






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






9. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






10. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






11. Commuincation within the project






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






13. 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






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






15. Difference between internal and external risk






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






17. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






18. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






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.






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






21. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






22. 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)






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






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






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






26. What is the number source of conflict?






27. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






28. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






29. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






30. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






31. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






32. 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






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






34. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






35. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






36. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






44. 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






45. 3 main components of the communication model






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






47. 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.






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






49. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






50. 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