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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






2. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






3. 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






4. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






5. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)






6. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






7. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






8. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






9. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






10. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






11. A milestone has a ______duration






12. 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






13. 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






14. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






19. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






20. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






21. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)






22. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






23. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






24. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






25. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






26. Commuincation within the project






27. 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.






28. 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






29. 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






30. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






31. 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






32. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






33. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






34. 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.






35. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






36. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






37. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






38. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






39. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






40. 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






41. 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






42. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






43. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built






44. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






45. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






46. 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






47. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






48. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






49. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






50. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start