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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Finish to Start (Most common)
Work Authorization System
Finish to Finish
2. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
Risk Triggers
Closing the project
Forcasting
3. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Nonconformance
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Impact
Pareto Diagram
4. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Emphasis on defining scope
Elements of scope
Expert Power
Charismatic
5. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Oganization breakdown structure
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Horizontal Comm
6. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Just-in-time (JIT)
Influence/Impact Grid
Delphi Technique
7. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Sigma
Monte Carlo Technique
8. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Mgmt by Objectives
External Contraints
Critical Chain Method
9. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively
Run Chart
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Smoothing and withdrawal
Critical Path Method
10. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Change Control System
Business Risk
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Elements of scope
11. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Director
Plan Risk Mgmt
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Project management and quality
12. Type of Mgmt style that brings out the best in the team - bringing mbrs to their potential or where they need to be with regard to the project
Work Authorization System
Activity List
Coaching
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
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
Work Package
Progress Report
Contraints
Compromising
14. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Controlling communication
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
The 100% Rule
Change Control Board
15. One choice does not include any other choices
Mutual Exclusivity
A Lag
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Free (or Total) float
16. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Cost of Quality
Create WBS
Controlling communication
Compromising
17. 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
Variance Analysis
Gold Plating
Referent Power
Secondary Risk
18. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Internal comm
Free (or Total) float
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Residual Risk
19. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
PMIS
Charismatic
Expert Power
Reward Power
20. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Resource breakdown structure
Free (or Total) float
Milestone Schedule
21. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Activity List
90%
Work Package
Total Quality Management TQM
22. 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.
Stakeholder Analysis
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Offical
Design of Experiments
23. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Concept of the Halo Theory
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Closing the project
24. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Fringe
Manage Project Team
Milestone list
25. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Salience Model
Stakeholder Analysis
Indentify Stakholders
Work Package
26. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Change Control System
Make money and to protect the public
Delphi Technique
Project Scope Statment
27. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Charismatic
Communications requirement analysis
Make money and to protect the public
People responsible for quality
28. 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
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Coaching
Conformance
Charateristics of a project
29. Difference between internal and external risk
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Secondary Risk
Change Control System
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
30. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Forcasting
Controlling communication
Monte Carlo Technique
31. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Finish to Start (Most common)
Design of Experiments
Nonconformance
Pure Risk
32. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Confronting/ Problem solving
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Causal/econometric
Organization Breakdown Structure
33. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure
Mediator
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Benchmarking
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
34. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Forcasting
Implied warranty
Status Reports
Code of Accounts
35. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
Cost of Quality
Penalty Power
Autocratic
36. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Critical Chain Method
Verbal and Non-verbal
Milestone Schedule
Zero duration
37. 3 main components of the communication model
Bill of materials
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Salience Model
Benchmarking
38. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Implied warranty
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Zero duration
39. 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
Coaching
Pareto Diagram
Director
Manage Project Team
40. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Reward Power
Project Selection
Pareto Diagram
Power/ Interest Grid
41. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Nonconformance
Time series method
Activity List
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
42. 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.
People responsible for quality
Rolling Wave Planning
Activity List
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
43. 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
Life-cycle costing
Acquire Project Team
Critical Path Method
Project Scope Statment
44. 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
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Fringe
Charateristics of a project
Rolling Wave Planning
45. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Demings' 14 principles of Management
RAM charts
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Visionary
46. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Verbal and Non-verbal
Project Selection
Level of Scope development
Report Performance
47. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts
Risk Breakdown Structure
Start to Start
Compromising
Status Reports
48. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Just-in-time (JIT)
Indentify Risk
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
49. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Project Scope Statment
Work Authorization System
Concept of the Halo Theory
Demings' 14 principles of Management
50. 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
Referent Power
Run of Seven Rule
RAM charts
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