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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






2. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






3. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






4. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.






5. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






6. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






7. Delphi Technique Interviewing






8. 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.






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.






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






17. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.






18. Shows the type of resources broken down






19. Difference between internal and external risk






20. Communication with peers






21. 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






22. 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






23. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






24. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






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






26. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem






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. 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.






29. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market






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






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






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






33. 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






34. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






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






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






42. Communication in writing or oral






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






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






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






46. A milestone has a ______duration






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






48. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






49. 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






50. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.