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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
External Comm
Bottom-up estimating
Fast Tracking
Autocratic
2. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Sample Testing
Smoothing and withdrawal
Distribute Information
Resource breakdown structure
3. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Mgmt by Objectives
Develop Human Resource Plan
Emphasis on defining scope
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
4. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Secondary Risk
Team development Life Cycle
Total Quality Management TQM
5. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Status Reports
Risk Register
Pareto Diagram
6. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
ISO 3 Steps
Director
Risk Triggers
Emphasis on defining scope
7. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Verbal and Non-verbal
Project Scope Statement
Elements of scope
Strong Matrix
8. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Code of Accounts
Impact
Formal Power
Root cause analysis
9. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Requested Changes
Oganization breakdown structure
Finish to Finish
10. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Sigma
Judgemental methods
A lead
11. 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
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Zero duration
Start to Finsh
Run Chart
12. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Start to Finsh
Work Authorization System
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
13. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Project Scope Statement
Judgemental methods
Salience Model
14. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Critical Chain Method
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Report Performance
15. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Risk Owner
Sample Testing
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Change Control System
16. 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)
Finish to Start (Most common)
Phase results are verified and documented
Finish to Finish
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
17. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Business Risk
Pure Risk
Run of Seven Rule
Gold Plating
18. 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
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Business Risk
Autocratic
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
19. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Risk Breakdown Structure
Change Control Board
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Concept of the Halo Theory
20. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Contingency Reserves
External Comm
Resource breakdown structure
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
21. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Nonconformance
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Rolling Wave Planning
22. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Coaching
Impact
Perks
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
23. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Staffing Mgmt Plan
External Comm
Activity List
n *(n -1) /2
24. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
6 sigma
Horizontal Comm
Zero duration
Salience Model
25. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Salience Model
Vertical Comm
26. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Salience Model
Crashing
Communications requirement analysis
Progress Report
27. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Finish to Start (Most common)
Stakeholder Analysis
Resource leveling
28. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Salience Model
Penalty Power
Verbal and Non-verbal
Free (or Total) float
29. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Project Charter
Smoothing and withdrawal
Implied warranty
Develop Human Resource Plan
30. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Approved Change
Gold Plating
Emphasis on defining scope
Visionary
31. Communication in writing or oral
Make money and to protect the public
Finish to Finish
Risk Register
Written or oral
32. 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.
Impact
Written or oral
Visionary
ISO 3 Steps
33. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Start to Finsh
Fast Tracking
Root cause analysis
34. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Milestone list
Work around
Cost of Quality
35. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Create WBS
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Report Performance
Concept of the Halo Theory
36. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Charismatic
Variance Analysis
Phase results are verified and documented
37. 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
Time series method
Work Authorization System
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Confronting/ Problem solving
38. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Manage Project Team
Collaborating
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Project management and quality
39. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Penalty Power
Statistical Independence
Rolling Wave Planning
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
40. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Visionary
Fringe
Hygiene factors
Project Slack
41. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
External Contraints
Smoothing and withdrawal
Perks
Change Control System
42. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Create WBS
Start to Start
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
43. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Perks
A lead
Resource breakdown structure
Business Risk
44. A milestone has a ______duration
Zero duration
Bill of materials
Work around
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
45. What is the output of Identify Risk?
3 Processes of quality managment
Verbal and Non-verbal
Risk Register
Report Performance
46. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Gold Plating
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
47. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Rolling Wave Planning
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Free (or Total) float
Critical Chain Method
48. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Causal/econometric
Indentify Risk
6 sigma
49. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Sigma
Work Package
50. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Implied warranty
Forcasting
Controlling communication
Perks