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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Judgemental methods
Interactive Communication
Start to Finsh
2. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Progress Report
Run Chart
Change Control Board
3. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Team development Life Cycle
Bottom-up Estimating
Smoothing/Accommodating
Cost plus percentage of cost
4. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Work Authorization System
External Contraints
Smoothing/Accommodating
5. A milestone has a ______duration
Vertical Comm
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Zero duration
Summary Schdule
6. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Assumptions
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Indentify Stakholders
Conformance
7. 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 Charter
Activity List
Pareto Diagram
Milestone Schedule
8. 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
Causal/econometric
Critical Path Method
Referent Power
Delphi Technique
9. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Acquire Project Team
6 sigma
Free (or Total) float
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
10. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Phase results are verified and documented
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Coaching
Develop Project Team
11. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Work around
Indentify Risk
Risk Triggers
Acquire Project Team
12. 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
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Report Performance
RAM charts
Nonconformance
13. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Requested Changes
Smoothing/Accommodating
14. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Residual Risk
Risk breakdown structure
Sample Testing
15. 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.
Work Package
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Mgmt Reserves
Change Control System
16. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Run Chart
Secondary Risk
Time series method
Start to Start
17. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Project management and quality
Influence/Impact Grid
Stakeholder Analysis
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
18. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Resource leveling
Develop Project Charter
Hygiene factors
Pull Communication
19. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Formal Power
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Charateristics of a project
20. 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
Push Communications
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Resource leveling
Resource breakdown structure
21. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Acquire Project Team
Interactive Communication
Sample Testing
Perks
22. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Concept of the Halo Theory
Crashing
Smoothing and withdrawal
Plan Communication
23. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Causal/econometric
Interactive Communication
Autocratic
Hygiene factors
24. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Rolling Wave Planning
A lead
Activity List
Plan Risk Mgmt
25. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
External Contraints
Reward Power
Statistical Independence
Formal Power
26. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
People responsible for quality
Change Control System
Forcasting
Bill of materials
27. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Cost of Quality
Conformance
Interactive Communication
28. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Report Performance
Charismatic
People responsible for quality
Finish to Finish
29. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Risk Owner
Risk Register
People responsible for quality
Change Control System
30. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Approved Change
Power/ Interest Grid
31. 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
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Milestone list
Mgmt by Objectives
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
32. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Collaborating
Code of Accounts
Rolling Wave Planning
Requested Changes
33. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Gold Plating
Facilitator
Collaborating
34. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Closing the project
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Total Quality Management TQM
Influence/Impact grid
35. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Activity List
Influence/Impact grid
Concept of the Halo Theory
36. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi
Project Scope Statement
Perks
Director
Push Communications
37. 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.
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Interactive Communication
Just-in-time (JIT)
Forcing
38. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Collaborating
Change Control System
Manage Project Team
Verbal and Non-verbal
39. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
n *(n -1) /2
Code of Accounts
Concept of the Halo Theory
40. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Mutual Exclusivity
Work around
Closing the project
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
41. 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.
ISO 3 Steps
Visionary
Pareto Diagram
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
42. Commuincation within the project
Distribute Information
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Internal comm
Demings' 14 principles of Management
43. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Start to Finsh
The 100% Rule
Elements of scope
Statistical Independence
44. 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
Director
Gold Plating
Code of Accounts
Work Authorization System
45. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Run of Seven Rule
Judgemental methods
Critical Chain Method
Influence/Impact grid
46. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
Report Performance
Internal comm
Develop Project Charter
Confronting/ Problem solving
47. 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
Risk Breakdown Structure
Critical Chain Method
Bottom-up estimating
Written or oral
48. 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
Concept of the Halo Theory
Summary Schdule
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Delphi Technique
49. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Offical
Risk Owner
FORMAL Communication
Develop Project Team
50. 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
Distribute Information
Salience Model
Perks
Pull Communication