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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Director
Push Communications
External Comm
Plan Communication
2. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones
Confronting/ Problem solving
Requested Changes
Create WBS
Interactive Communication
3. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Business Risk
Impact
Delphi Technique
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
4. Shows the type of resources broken down
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Resource breakdown structure
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
5. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Root cause analysis
Bottom-up Estimating
Visionary
6. 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
Develop Project Team
Secondary Risk
Milestone Schedule
Breach
7. 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.
Critical Chain Method
Influence/Impact grid
Confronting/ Problem solving
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
8. 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.
PMIS
Push Communications
Finish to Start (Most common)
Rolling Wave Planning
9. 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
Run of Seven Rule
Work Authorization System
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
10. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Cost of Quality
Activity List
Milestone Schedule
Critical Path Method
11. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Risk breakdown structure
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Variance Analysis
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
12. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
External Contraints
Milestone Schedule
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Root cause analysis
13. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Expert Power
Project Scope Statment
Delphi Technique
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
14. 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.
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Work Package
Risk breakdown structure
Design of Experiments
15. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Risk Owner
Influence/Impact Grid
Variance Analysis
16. Communication in writing or oral
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Run of Seven Rule
Fast Tracking
Written or oral
17. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Manage Project Team
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Charismatic
Project Selection
18. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Conformance
Activity List
Summary Schdule
Autocratic
19. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Mgmt Reserves
Rolling Wave Planning
Causal/econometric
20. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
90%
Variance Analysis
People responsible for quality
Project Selection
21. 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.
90%
Smoothing/Accommodating
Fast Tracking
Variance Analysis
22. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Formal Power
Causal/econometric
Progress Report
Pareto Diagram
23. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Progress Report
Code of Accounts
A lead
Mutual Exclusivity
24. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Hygiene factors
Free (or Total) float
Forcasting
Fringe
25. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Develop Project Charter
Concept of the Halo Theory
26. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
Pure Risk
Emphasis on defining scope
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Salience Model
27. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Start to Start
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Plan Communication
Assumptions
28. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Bottom-up estimating
Mediator
Root cause analysis
Gold Plating
29. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Contingency Reserves
Develop Project Charter
6 sigma
Conformance
30. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Work around
Critical Chain Method
Breach
Bottom-up Estimating
31. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Pure Risk
Secondary Risk
Autocratic
3 Processes of quality managment
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
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
A lead
RAM charts
Risk Breakdown Structure
33. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Interactive Communication
Change Control Board
Progress Report
34. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Organization Breakdown Structure
Cost plus percentage of cost
Influence/Impact grid
Scheduling
35. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)
The 100% Rule
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Rolling Wave Planning
Statistical Independence
36. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
Reward Power
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Forcing
37. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Requested Changes
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Free (or Total) float
Monte Carlo Technique
38. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Impact
Develop Project Charter
Conformance
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
39. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Closing the project
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Change Control System
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
40. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Salience Model
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
41. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Collaborating
Report Performance
Resource leveling
6 sigma
42. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Charismatic
Formal Power
43. 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
Design of Experiments
Coaching
Sigma
44. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Penalty Power
Expectancy Theory
Root cause analysis
Scatter Diagram
45. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Project Scope Statement
Smoothing/Accommodating
Work around
46. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
Benchmarking
Horizontal Comm
Root cause analysis
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
47. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Concept of the Halo Theory
6 sigma
Code of Accounts
48. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Critical Path Method
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
49. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Coaching
People responsible for quality
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
50. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Salience Model
Oganization breakdown structure
Brainstorming