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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. Delphi Technique Interviewing






2. 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.






3. 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






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






5. Communication in writing or oral






6. Shows the type of resources broken down






7. 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.






8. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






9. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






10. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






11. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






12. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






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






14. 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)






15. 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






16. What is the output of Identify Risk?






17. What is the number source of conflict?






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






19. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






20. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






21. 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.






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






23. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






24. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






25. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






26. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






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






28. 3 main components of the communication model






29. 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






30. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological

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






32. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






33. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






34. 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.






35. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






36. 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






37. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






38. 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






39. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






40. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






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






42. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






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






44. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






45. 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






46. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






47. One choice does not include any other choices






48. 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.






49. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






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