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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Critical Path Method
Mutual Exclusivity
Milestone list
Offical
2. Communication up and down the organization
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
FORMAL Communication
Fast Tracking
Vertical Comm
3. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Gold Plating
Project Selection
Communications requirement analysis
4. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Phase results are verified and documented
Brainstorming
LAG
Root cause analysis
5. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Project management and quality
Coaching
Status Reports
Change Control System
6. 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
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Scheduling
Rolling Wave Planning
Breach
7. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Breach
Work Package
Elements of scope
8. 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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9. 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
Breach
Milestone list
Resource breakdown structure
10. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
Forcing
Zero duration
Salience Model
Risk Breakdown Structure
11. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Benchmarking
Rolling Wave Planning
Phase results are verified and documented
12. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Influence/Impact grid
Progress Report
Create WBS
Brainstorming
13. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Facilitator
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Progress Report
Indentify Risk
14. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Resource breakdown structure
Project Scope Statment
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Report Performance
15. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Contingency Reserves
Crashing
Create WBS
Milestone Schedule
16. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Schedules - project priorities - resources
3 Processes of quality managment
Cost of Quality
17. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Forcing
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Code of Accounts
Risk Owner
18. 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.
Mediator
Bottom-up Estimating
Mutual Exclusivity
Design of Experiments
19. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Pareto Diagram
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Forcing
Autocratic
20. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Elements of scope
People responsible for quality
Rolling Wave Planning
21. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Contraints
Zero duration
Summary Schdule
Penalty Power
22. 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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Influence/Impact Grid
Brainstorming
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
23. 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
Risk Register
Organization Breakdown Structure
Influence/Impact Grid
Influence/Impact grid
24. 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.
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Indentify Stakholders
Conformance
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
25. 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.
Scheduling
Assumptions
Charismatic
Analogous or Top down Estimating
26. 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
Zero duration
Conformance
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
27. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Crashing
Reward Power
Strong Matrix
Make money and to protect the public
28. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Written or oral
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Fast Tracking
29. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
n *(n -1) /2
Business Risk
Benchmarking
The 100% Rule
30. 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.
Plan Communication
Influence/Impact grid
Sigma
Sample Testing
31. Communication that is not on the record
Mutual Exclusivity
Unoffical Comm
Causal/econometric
ISO 3 Steps
32. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Influence/Impact grid
Work around
Finish to Start (Most common)
Acquire Project Team
33. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Risk Triggers
Compromising
Mgmt by Objectives
34. 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
Make money and to protect the public
Run Chart
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Project management and quality
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
Mediator
Residual Risk
Influence/Impact Grid
Resource breakdown structure
36. 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
A Lag
Root cause analysis
Make money and to protect the public
37. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Sigma
Concept of the Halo Theory
Change Control System
38. 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
Written or oral
Mgmt Reserves
Breach
Coaching
39. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Salience Model
Scheduling
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Indentify Stakholders
40. 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
Benchmarking
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Scope Baseline
41. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Charateristics of a project
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Emphasis on defining scope
Free (or Total) float
42. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Assumptions
Emphasis on defining scope
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Reward Power
43. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Time series method
Oganization breakdown structure
Make money and to protect the public
Resource breakdown structure
44. Close out any contracts w/ outside vendors - Deliver any required reports associated w/ closure (OPA updates) - Complete any close project or phase activites - Performed lessons learned - Complete the archives of any project files (OPA updates) - Rel
Pareto Diagram
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Conformance
Breach
45. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Bill of materials
RAM charts
Mgmt Reserves
Variance Analysis
46. 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
Approved Change
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Oganization breakdown structure
47. 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
PMIS
Smoothing and withdrawal
Monte Carlo Technique
Resource leveling
48. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Perks
Statistical Independence
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
ISO 3 Steps
49. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Mediator
Collaborating
Report Performance
Finish to Start (Most common)
50. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Cost plus percentage of cost
Acquire Project Team
Rolling Wave Planning
Run of Seven Rule