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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. 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
Develop Project Charter
Work around
Influence/Impact Grid
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
2. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.
Level of Scope development
Smoothing and withdrawal
Project Scope Statement
Concept of the Halo Theory
3. One choice does not include any other choices
Causal/econometric
Mutual Exclusivity
Power/Influence Grid
Indentify Stakholders
4. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Milestone Schedule
Fringe
Salience Model
Develop Human Resource Plan
5. 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
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Residual Risk
Analogous or Top down Estimating
6. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.
Closing the project
Fast Tracking
Risk breakdown structure
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
7. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Bottom-up Estimating
Director
Smoothing and withdrawal
Report Performance
8. Process that helps determine where a project fits in the big picture of planning at the company - It also could be used to address a goal-setting technique which emphasizes establishing attainable goals and monitoring for variance then adjusting as n
Mgmt by Objectives
Benchmarking
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Resource breakdown structure
9. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Develop Human Resource Plan
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Referent Power
Conformance
10. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Breach
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Milestone list
11. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Assumptions
Interactive Communication
Root cause analysis
Benchmarking
12. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Expectancy Theory
Collaborating
Fringe
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
13. Difference between internal and external risk
Contraints
Risk Owner
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Sigma
14. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Time series method
Acquire Project Team
Activity List
15. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Make money and to protect the public
Plan Communication
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Push Communications
16. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Risk Register
FORMAL Communication
Work Authorization System
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
17. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Summary Schdule
Develop Project Charter
RAM charts
18. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Hygiene factors
Milestone list
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
19. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Project Scope Statment
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Resource breakdown structure
20. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Smoothing and withdrawal
Activity List
ISO 3 Steps
21. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Hygiene factors
Organization Breakdown Structure
A Lag
22. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Charismatic
Report Performance
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
23. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Internal comm
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Cost plus percentage of cost
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
24. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Communications requirement analysis
Total Quality Management TQM
Brainstorming
Resource breakdown structure
25. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Organization Breakdown Structure
Free (or Total) float
Formal Power
Risk Breakdown Structure
26. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Milestone list
Charismatic
Internal comm
Change Control System
27. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements
Change Control System
Activity List
Project Selection
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
28. 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
Cost of Quality
Team development Life Cycle
Rolling Wave Planning
Contraints
29. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Work Package
Crashing
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Monte Carlo Technique
30. 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
Contingency Reserves
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
RAM charts
Charateristics of a project
31. 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
Interactive Communication
Expectancy Theory
Nonconformance
Run of Seven Rule
32. Communication that is not on the record
Smoothing and withdrawal
Project Selection
Perks
Unoffical Comm
33. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
n *(n -1) /2
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Delphi Technique
34. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Pure Risk
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Cost plus percentage of cost
Design of Experiments
35. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact
Requested Changes
Forcasting
People responsible for quality
Project Scope Statment
36. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Root cause analysis
Develop Project Team
Hygiene factors
Develop Human Resource Plan
37. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Bottom-up Estimating
Change Control System
Report Performance
38. 3 main components of the communication model
Nonconformance
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Monte Carlo Technique
Work Authorization System
39. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
The 100% Rule
Just-in-time (JIT)
Monte Carlo Technique
Total Quality Management TQM
40. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
A lead
Communications requirement analysis
Compromising
Root cause analysis
41. 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.
External Contraints
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Forcing
Compromising
42. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Distribute Information
Stakeholder Analysis
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Confronting/ Problem solving
43. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
RAM charts
Offical
Secondary Risk
Expert Power
44. 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.
Life-cycle costing
Project Scope Statment
Design of Experiments
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
45. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail
Total Quality Management TQM
Horizontal Comm
Project Scope Statment
Analogous or Top down Estimating
46. Generally seen as the founding basis for total quality managment - Main Points are: 1. be proactive - not reactive 2. Utilize leadership and accountability 3. Measure and strive for constant improvement
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47. 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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
RAM charts
Visionary
Project management and quality
48. 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
Referent Power
Commincations Mgmt plan
Closing the project
Stakeholder Analysis
49. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Delphi Technique
Breach
Pull Communication
Brainstorming
50. 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
Influence/Impact grid
Run of Seven Rule
Implied warranty
Facilitator