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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






2. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






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






5. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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. 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






8. Communication with peers






9. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization






10. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






11. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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12. Communication up and down the organization






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






14. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






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






16. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






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






18. A milestone has a ______duration






19. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects






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






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






22. 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






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






24. Communication formula






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






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






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






28. What is the number source of conflict?






29. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






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






31. 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.






32. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






33. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






34. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






35. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






36. Difference between internal and external risk






37. 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






38. 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)






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






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







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