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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Charismatic
Brainstorming
Statistical Independence
Stakeholder Analysis
2. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Withdrawing/Avoiding
90%
Collaborating
3. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Total Quality Management TQM
Reward Power
Gold Plating
Approved Change
4. Communication that is not on the record
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Develop Human Resource Plan
Team development Life Cycle
Unoffical Comm
5. Breakdown structure to help dreak down the risk on a project. It helps create a brainstorming type of environment that allows the team to identify and categorize additional risk. Similar to WBS but the team creates it.
Critical Path Method
Penalty Power
Fast Tracking
Risk Breakdown Structure
6. Communication with peers
Horizontal Comm
Indentify Stakholders
A lead
Judgemental methods
7. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Critical Chain Method
Indentify Risk
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
8. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Run Chart
Milestone list
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Manage Project Team
9. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Elements of scope
Implied warranty
Organization Breakdown Structure
10. 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
Change Control Board
Compromising
Just-in-time (JIT)
Project Scope Statement
11. 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.
Perks
Design of Experiments
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Brainstorming
12. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
FORMAL Communication
Activity List
Risk Register
Progress Report
13. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues
Resource breakdown structure
Report Performance
Contraints
Team development Life Cycle
14. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Written or oral
90%
Develop Human Resource Plan
Internal comm
15. 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
Bottom-up Estimating
Project Scope Statement
Smoothing and withdrawal
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
16. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
RAM charts
Status Reports
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Withdrawing/Avoiding
17. 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
Monte Carlo Technique
Work Authorization System
Elements of scope
Organization Breakdown Structure
18. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Free (or Total) float
Mgmt Reserves
Power/ Interest Grid
Finish to Finish
19. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution
Influence/Impact Grid
Interactive Communication
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Charismatic
20. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Resource leveling
Director
Mediator
Project Slack
21. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Closing the project
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Work Package
Run Chart
22. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Causal/econometric
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Smoothing/Accommodating
Just-in-time (JIT)
23. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Risk Owner
Power/ Interest Grid
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Risk Breakdown Structure
24. 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.
Crashing
Work Package
Visionary
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
25. What is the number source of conflict?
ISO 3 Steps
Formal Power
Scheduling
Nonconformance
26. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Charismatic
Pareto Diagram
Crashing
Referent Power
27. Communication up and down the organization
Design of Experiments
Written or oral
Residual Risk
Vertical Comm
28. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation
Fast Tracking
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Indentify Stakholders
Run of Seven Rule
29. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
Risk Triggers
Mgmt by Objectives
Risk breakdown structure
30. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Level of Scope development
Work Authorization System
Offical
Emphasis on defining scope
31. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
LAG
Work Authorization System
32. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Project Slack
Push Communications
Controlling communication
33. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Work Authorization System
Offical
Cost of Quality
34. 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)
Unoffical Comm
LAG
Judgemental methods
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
35. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Change Control Board
ISO 3 Steps
Acquire Project Team
Emphasis on defining scope
36. 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.
Influence/Impact grid
Residual Risk
Milestone list
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
37. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Residual Risk
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Strong Matrix
Impact
38. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Fast Tracking
People responsible for quality
Milestone Schedule
Business Risk
39. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Rolling Wave Planning
Bill of materials
Bottom-up Estimating
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
40. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Pure Risk
Project Scope Statment
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Activity List
41. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Just-in-time (JIT)
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Finish to Finish
42. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Work Authorization System
Sample Testing
Plan Communication
PMIS
43. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Report Performance
Plan Communication
Requested Changes
Compromising
44. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Activity List
Brainstorming
Horizontal Comm
Distribute Information
45. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Secondary Risk
Resource breakdown structure
LAG
46. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Project Selection
Breach
Smoothing/Accommodating
Sigma
47. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Stakeholder Analysis
Influence/Impact grid
Pareto Diagram
Collaborating
48. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Hygiene factors
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Team development Life Cycle
3 Processes of quality managment
49. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Statistical Independence
Zero duration
Elements of scope
Finish to Start (Most common)
50. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Fringe
Mutual Exclusivity
A Lag
Charismatic
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