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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






3. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






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






5. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






6. 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






7. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






8. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






9. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






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






11. 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






12. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






13. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities






14. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete






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






16. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






17. 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






18. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






19. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






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






21. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






22. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






23. Commuincation within the project






24. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative






25. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






26. 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






27. 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






28. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






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






30. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






31. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






32. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






33. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






34. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






35. 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.






36. 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






37. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






41. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






42. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






43. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






44. Communication with peers






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






46. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs






47. 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.






48. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






49. 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)






50. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization