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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






2. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






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






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






5. Shows the type of resources broken down






6. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






7. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority






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






9. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






10. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






11. 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






12. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th






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






14. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






15. 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.






16. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






17. Communication up and down the organization






18. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






19. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






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






21. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






22. 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






23. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






24. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






25. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






26. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






27. 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






28. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






29. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






30. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project






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






32. What is the output of Identify Risk?






33. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates






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






36. 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






37. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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






41. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






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






43. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






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






45. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






46. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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.