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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Salience Model
Staffing Mgmt Plan
FORMAL Communication
2. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Expectancy Theory
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Verbal and Non-verbal
Judgemental methods
3. 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
Bottom-up estimating
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Referent Power
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
4. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Benchmarking
Autocratic
Smoothing and withdrawal
The 100% Rule
5. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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6. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Reward Power
Benchmarking
Residual Risk
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
7. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Plan Communication
Formal Power
Stakeholder Analysis
8. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Sigma
People responsible for quality
Risk breakdown structure
Bottom-up Estimating
9. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Facilitator
Analogous or Top down Estimating
10. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Expert Power
Secondary Risk
Risk Triggers
11. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Life-cycle costing
Acquire Project Team
Time series method
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
12. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Scheduling
Finish to Start (Most common)
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
13. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
External Comm
Cost plus percentage of cost
People responsible for quality
14. 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
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Total Quality Management TQM
Distribute Information
Work around
15. 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.
Director
Requested Changes
Design of Experiments
Milestone list
16. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Change Control System
Push Communications
Code of Accounts
Bottom-up Estimating
17. 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.
Nonconformance
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Work around
Scope Baseline
18. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Requested Changes
Facilitator
Pure Risk
Start to Start
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.
Level of Scope development
Change Control System
Forcing
Crashing
20. 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
Milestone list
ISO 3 Steps
Confronting/ Problem solving
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
21. What is the number source of conflict?
Power/Influence Grid
Level of Scope development
Project Slack
Scheduling
22. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Free (or Total) float
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Develop Project Team
Salience Model
23. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Pull Communication
A lead
Cost plus percentage of cost
Salience Model
24. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Contraints
Bottom-up Estimating
Closing the project
25. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Elements of scope
Project Scope Statment
Cost plus percentage of cost
26. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Critical Path Method
Delphi Technique
Director
27. 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)
Salience Model
Causal/econometric
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
LAG
28. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Time series method
Scatter Diagram
Elements of scope
Contraints
29. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
A lead
Sigma
Resource leveling
30. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Finish to Finish
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Impact
Requested Changes
31. Shows the type of resources broken down
Assumptions
Develop Project Team
6 sigma
Resource breakdown structure
32. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Influence/Impact Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Rolling Wave Planning
33. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Written or oral
Controlling communication
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
The 100% Rule
34. 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.
Start to Finsh
Plan Communication
Scheduling
Change Control Board
35. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Start to Start
Verbal and Non-verbal
Bottom-up Estimating
Progress Report
36. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Director
Summary Schdule
Risk Owner
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
37. 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
Facilitator
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Expectancy Theory
Coaching
38. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Progress Report
Charismatic
Root cause analysis
Power/ Interest Grid
39. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Develop Human Resource Plan
Vertical Comm
Work around
Monte Carlo Technique
40. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Visionary
Breach
Implied warranty
Controlling communication
41. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Bottom-up estimating
Create WBS
Run of Seven Rule
Mgmt Reserves
42. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics
Risk Triggers
Indentify Risk
Activity List
Director
43. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Scheduling
Zero duration
Risk Triggers
Change Control System
44. 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
Plan Communication
Internal comm
Influence/Impact Grid
Breach
45. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Expert Power
Assumptions
Communications requirement analysis
46. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Statistical Independence
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Requested Changes
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
47. 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
Fringe
Forcasting
Resource breakdown structure
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
48. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution
3 Processes of quality managment
Critical Path Method
Confronting/ Problem solving
Root cause analysis
49. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
LAG
Run of Seven Rule
RAM charts
Commincations Mgmt plan
50. 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
Assumptions
Resource leveling
Charateristics of a project
Plan Risk Mgmt