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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






2. 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.






3. Communication with peers






4. 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






5. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






6. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






7. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






8. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil






9. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






10. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






11. 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)






12. Difference between internal and external risk






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






14. 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






15. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






16. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






17. 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






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






19. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






20. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






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






22. Delphi Technique Interviewing






23. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






24. 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






25. 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






26. Communication up and down the organization






27. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






28. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






29. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)






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






31. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






32. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






33. 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






34. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






35. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






36. 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.






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






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






39. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






40. 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.






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






42. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






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






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






45. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






46. One choice does not include any other choices






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






48. 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






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






50. 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.