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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






2. Communication formula






3. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






4. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






5. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






6. What is the number source of conflict?






7. 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.






8. Commuincation within the project






9. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones






10. 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






11. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






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






13. Communication with peers






14. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






15. 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






16. 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






17. 3 main components of the communication model






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






19. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






20. 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)






21. Difference between internal and external risk






22. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






23. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






24. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






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






26. What is the output of Identify Risk?






27. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






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






29. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






30. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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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35. A milestone has a ______duration






36. 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






37. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






38. 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






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






40. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






41. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






42. Communication in writing or oral






43. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






44. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






45. 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






46. 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.






47. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






48. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






49. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






50. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)