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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






2. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






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






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






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






6. 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






7. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






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






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






10. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.






11. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






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






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






14. 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






15. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






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






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






18. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






20. 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






21. One choice does not include any other choices






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






23. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






24. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






25. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as






35. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






36. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






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






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






39. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






40. 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)






41. 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






42. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






43. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






45. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






46. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






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






48. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






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






50. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project