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PMP: Project Management Professional
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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
Time series method
Closing the project
Controlling communication
Verbal and Non-verbal
2. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Brainstorming
Autocratic
Mgmt Reserves
3. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Expectancy Theory
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Controlling communication
Scatter Diagram
4. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Internal comm
Risk Triggers
Finish to Finish
5. 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.
Risk Breakdown Structure
Commincations Mgmt plan
Residual Risk
Summary Schdule
6. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Statistical Independence
Cost plus percentage of cost
Influence/Impact grid
Project Slack
7. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Hygiene factors
Visionary
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Smoothing/Accommodating
8. 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)
Phase results are verified and documented
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Run Chart
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
9. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Salience Model
Bottom-up estimating
PMIS
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
10. 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.
Cost plus percentage of cost
Influence/Impact grid
Start to Start
Plan Communication
11. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Residual Risk
Design of Experiments
Horizontal Comm
Forcing
12. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Indentify Stakholders
Breach
Unoffical Comm
Statistical Independence
13. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
14. 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
Sample Testing
RAM charts
Work Authorization System
Power/Influence Grid
15. 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
Organization Breakdown Structure
Bottom-up estimating
Causal/econometric
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
16. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Milestone list
Causal/econometric
Commincations Mgmt plan
Activity List
17. What is the number source of conflict?
Scheduling
Milestone Schedule
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Project Scope Statement
18. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Impact
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Life-cycle costing
19. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Business Risk
Judgemental methods
Plan Risk Mgmt
20. 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.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Assumptions
PMIS
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
21. 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
Run of Seven Rule
Project Scope Statement
Code of Accounts
Project Scope Statment
22. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Bottom-up Estimating
Penalty Power
Indentify Risk
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
23. 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.
Project Selection
Design of Experiments
Mediator
Activity List
24. 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.
Contraints
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Benchmarking
Project Scope Statment
25. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Code of Accounts
Rolling Wave Planning
Formal Power
FORMAL Communication
26. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Interactive Communication
People responsible for quality
Acquire Project Team
Hygiene factors
27. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Judgemental methods
ISO 3 Steps
Time series method
Finish to Start (Most common)
28. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Change Control System
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Sigma
Fringe
29. 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.
Plan Communication
Formal Power
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Root cause analysis
30. 3 main components of the communication model
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Scatter Diagram
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
31. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
Pull Communication
Indentify Risk
Smoothing/Accommodating
The 100% Rule
32. Difference between internal and external risk
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Mediator
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
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
Judgemental methods
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Statistical Independence
34. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Rolling Wave Planning
Contraints
Change Control System
35. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
RAM charts
Make money and to protect the public
Push Communications
Change Control System
36. 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
Push Communications
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Charateristics of a project
Staffing Mgmt Plan
37. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Acquire Project Team
The 100% Rule
Milestone Schedule
38. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Project management and quality
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Business Risk
Life-cycle costing
39. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Interactive Communication
Communications requirement analysis
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Resource breakdown structure
40. 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
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
RAM charts
Hygiene factors
41. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Project Slack
Contingency Reserves
Withdrawing/Avoiding
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
42. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Root cause analysis
Total Quality Management TQM
Plan Communication
Influence/Impact Grid
43. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
LAG
Delphi Technique
3 Processes of quality managment
Stakeholder Analysis
44. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Director
Smoothing and withdrawal
Work Authorization System
Strong Matrix
45. A milestone has a ______duration
Finish to Finish
Fringe
Zero duration
FORMAL Communication
46. 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.
The 100% Rule
Distribute Information
Scope Baseline
Resource breakdown structure
47. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Compromising
Develop Human Resource Plan
Distribute Information
Monte Carlo Technique
48. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Impact
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Risk Register
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
49. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance
Cost of Quality
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Salience Model
Crashing
50. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Manage Project Team
Delphi Technique
Project management and quality
Work Authorization System