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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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.
Verbal and Non-verbal
Approved Change
Milestone Schedule
PMIS
2. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Milestone Schedule
Bottom-up estimating
Contraints
3. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Critical Path Method
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Risk Register
Compromising
4. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
The 100% Rule
RAM charts
Residual Risk
Make money and to protect the public
5. 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
Report Performance
Start to Finsh
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Rolling Wave Planning
6. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Critical Chain Method
Resource breakdown structure
Distribute Information
PMIS
7. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Collaborating
Rolling Wave Planning
Bill of materials
8. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Start to Finsh
Schedules - project priorities - resources
9. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Communications requirement analysis
Progress Report
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
10. 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.
Perks
Delphi Technique
Assumptions
Finish to Start (Most common)
11. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Pure Risk
People responsible for quality
Develop Human Resource Plan
Risk Register
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
RAM charts
Salience Model
Business Risk
Project Scope Statment
13. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Contraints
Power/ Interest Grid
Nonconformance
Create WBS
14. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Time series method
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Project Scope Statement
15. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Forcasting
Project Scope Statment
Plan Communication
Develop Project Charter
16. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Confronting/ Problem solving
Gold Plating
Stakeholder Analysis
17. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Conformance
Cost plus percentage of cost
Total Quality Management TQM
Breach
18. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Life-cycle costing
Internal comm
Run of Seven Rule
Gold Plating
19. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Controlling communication
Benchmarking
Salience Model
Milestone Schedule
20. 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
Summary Schdule
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Root cause analysis
Unoffical Comm
21. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Salience Model
Indentify Risk
Contraints
22. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Stakeholder Analysis
Charateristics of a project
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
23. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Pareto Diagram
Business Risk
Pull Communication
Variance Analysis
24. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Phase results are verified and documented
Monte Carlo Technique
Manage Project Team
25. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Indentify Risk
Facilitator
Variance Analysis
26. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Expectancy Theory
Plan Communication
People responsible for quality
27. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Develop Human Resource Plan
n *(n -1) /2
Closing the project
Monte Carlo Technique
28. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Salience Model
29. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Total Quality Management TQM
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Finish to Start (Most common)
Approved Change
30. Provides details of the planned Scope for the project - this includes the Project Scope Statment - WBS - WBS dictionary. It is the key output in the Create WBS.
Fast Tracking
External Contraints
Develop Project Charter
Scope Baseline
31. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Indentify Stakholders
Project Scope Statement
External Contraints
Acquire Project Team
32. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Smoothing and withdrawal
Emphasis on defining scope
Coaching
Pull Communication
33. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Mgmt by Objectives
Change Control System
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Perks
34. What is the number source of conflict?
90%
Scheduling
Assumptions
Indentify Stakholders
35. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Life-cycle costing
Statistical Independence
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Resource breakdown structure
36. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Charateristics of a project
Develop Project Team
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Risk Triggers
37. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Risk breakdown structure
Power/ Interest Grid
Forcing
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
38. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Conformance
Rolling Wave Planning
Expectancy Theory
Smoothing and withdrawal
39. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Just-in-time (JIT)
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Run Chart
Director
40. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Free (or Total) float
Expectancy Theory
Scatter Diagram
Indentify Stakholders
41. 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
Requested Changes
Contraints
External Contraints
Plan Risk Mgmt
42. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Strong Matrix
Charismatic
Rolling Wave Planning
Internal comm
43. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
Work Package
A Lag
Risk Owner
44. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Commincations Mgmt plan
Develop Project Charter
Change Control System
Run Chart
45. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
Brainstorming
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Activity List
46. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Reward Power
A Lag
Phase results are verified and documented
Collaborating
47. 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
Create WBS
Salience Model
Smoothing/Accommodating
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
48. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Charateristics of a project
Mediator
Phase results are verified and documented
Total Quality Management TQM
49. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Risk Triggers
External Comm
Horizontal Comm
Causal/econometric
50. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Verbal and Non-verbal
Plan Risk Mgmt
Start to Finsh
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle