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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Controlling communication
Brainstorming
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Causal/econometric
2. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Indentify Risk
Visionary
Nonconformance
3. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Mgmt by Objectives
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Develop Human Resource Plan
Zero duration
4. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
RAM charts
Run Chart
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Distribute Information
5. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Hygiene factors
Monte Carlo Technique
Internal comm
6. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Work Authorization System
Risk Breakdown Structure
90%
Smoothing and withdrawal
7. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Project Scope Statement
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
8. 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
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
RAM charts
Bottom-up estimating
Judgemental methods
9. 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
Approved Change
Root cause analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
10. 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)
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Risk Breakdown Structure
Plan Communication
11. 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
Work around
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Project Scope Statment
Distribute Information
12. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Work Authorization System
Vertical Comm
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Resource breakdown structure
13. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Cost plus percentage of cost
Organization Breakdown Structure
Run of Seven Rule
14. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Interactive Communication
Collaborating
15. 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.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Influence/Impact grid
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Status Reports
16. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Work around
Work Authorization System
LAG
Activity List
17. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Bottom-up Estimating
Analogous or Top down Estimating
n *(n -1) /2
Critical Chain Method
18. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Bottom-up estimating
Confronting/ Problem solving
6 sigma
Brainstorming
19. 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.
Crashing
Forcing
Contraints
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
20. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Risk Owner
Brainstorming
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Pull Communication
21. A milestone has a ______duration
Milestone Schedule
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Push Communications
Zero duration
22. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
Power/Influence Grid
Referent Power
Cost of Quality
Elements of scope
23. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
People responsible for quality
Mutual Exclusivity
Expectancy Theory
Hygiene factors
24. 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
Report Performance
Contraints
Reward Power
Verbal and Non-verbal
25. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Breach
6 sigma
Indentify Stakholders
Charismatic
26. Shows the type of resources broken down
Resource breakdown structure
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Impact
Push Communications
27. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Finish to Start (Most common)
Life-cycle costing
Referent Power
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
28. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Requested Changes
Cost of Quality
Finish to Start (Most common)
29. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Crashing
Project management and quality
Mutual Exclusivity
Impact
30. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Distribute Information
Team development Life Cycle
Judgemental methods
31. 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
Project Selection
Residual Risk
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
32. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Approved Change
Risk Breakdown Structure
Life-cycle costing
33. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.
Project management and quality
Assumptions
Milestone Schedule
RAM charts
34. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Crashing
Concept of the Halo Theory
Risk Register
35. 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
Just-in-time (JIT)
Plan Communication
Free (or Total) float
Assumptions
36. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Salience Model
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Life-cycle costing
37. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Expert Power
Project management and quality
38. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Forcing
Smoothing/Accommodating
Conformance
Forcasting
39. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Finish to Start (Most common)
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Risk Triggers
Free (or Total) float
40. 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.
Interactive Communication
Unoffical Comm
Resource breakdown structure
PMIS
41. 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
RAM charts
Pull Communication
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Staffing Mgmt Plan
42. 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
Unoffical Comm
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Gold Plating
43. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Salience Model
6 sigma
Judgemental methods
PMIS
44. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Collaborating
Contingency Reserves
Facilitator
Cost of Quality
45. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Time series method
6 sigma
Push Communications
Secondary Risk
46. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Phase results are verified and documented
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Visionary
47. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Coaching
Controlling communication
Salience Model
48. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
External Comm
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Communications requirement analysis
Make money and to protect the public
49. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Rolling Wave Planning
Change Control Board
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
90%
50. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
External Contraints
Manage Project Team
Scatter Diagram
Create WBS