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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Expectancy Theory
Sample Testing
Time series method
2. 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.
Code of Accounts
Team development Life Cycle
Smoothing/Accommodating
Plan Communication
3. Conflict Solution where there is an attempt to focus on the positive and distract the attention from the negative
Expectancy Theory
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Assumptions
Smoothing/Accommodating
4. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Reward Power
Develop Project Team
Indentify Risk
Staffing Mgmt Plan
5. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Phase results are verified and documented
Breach
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Facilitator
6. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Design of Experiments
Forcasting
Reward Power
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
7. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Mgmt Reserves
Breach
Plan Communication
Free (or Total) float
8. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Distribute Information
90%
Develop Project Team
Hygiene factors
9. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Develop Project Team
Monte Carlo Technique
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
FORMAL Communication
10. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Work around
Risk Triggers
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Monte Carlo Technique
11. 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
Project Slack
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Charismatic
Confronting/ Problem solving
12. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Brainstorming
Penalty Power
Residual Risk
Nonconformance
13. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Project Scope Statement
Start to Finsh
Rolling Wave Planning
Nonconformance
14. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Contingency Reserves
Requested Changes
Penalty Power
Project Selection
15. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Resource breakdown structure
Internal comm
Work Authorization System
Delphi Technique
16. 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)
Residual Risk
Analogous or Top down Estimating
A Lag
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
17. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
Brainstorming
Power/Influence Grid
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
18. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Status Reports
Start to Start
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
19. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
3 Processes of quality managment
n *(n -1) /2
Mgmt Reserves
20. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
n *(n -1) /2
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Free (or Total) float
21. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Sigma
Milestone list
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Distribute Information
22. ID all potential project stakeholders - Identify the potential impact or support each other stakeholder could generate and classify them ...ie the grids - Assess how key stakeholders are likley to react or respond in various situations
Contingency Reserves
A Lag
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
23. 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
Coaching
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Sigma
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
24. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem
Strong Matrix
Risk Breakdown Structure
Run of Seven Rule
Pareto Diagram
25. 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
Work Authorization System
Plan Communication
Bottom-up Estimating
Run Chart
26. 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
Pull Communication
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Manage Project Team
Coaching
27. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes
Critical Path Method
Cost of Quality
Approved Change
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
28. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
3 Processes of quality managment
Level of Scope development
Nonconformance
29. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Residual Risk
Activity List
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
30. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro
Run of Seven Rule
Rolling Wave Planning
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Stakeholder Analysis
31. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Report Performance
Pull Communication
6 sigma
Root cause analysis
32. Formal or informal system used in project mgmt to ensure that work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Work Authorization System
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Code of Accounts
Variance Analysis
33. 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
Project Scope Statement
Resource breakdown structure
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Perks
34. 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.
Referent Power
Visionary
Code of Accounts
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
35. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Root cause analysis
Risk breakdown structure
Distribute Information
Monte Carlo Technique
36. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Start to Start
Gold Plating
Project Scope Statment
37. 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
Work Authorization System
Plan Risk Mgmt
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Elements of scope
38. 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
Run Chart
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Demings' 14 principles of Management
39. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Progress Report
Influence/Impact grid
Work Package
40. 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
Visionary
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Team development Life Cycle
Confronting/ Problem solving
41. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Work around
Create WBS
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
90%
42. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
FORMAL Communication
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Resource leveling
A Lag
43. 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.
People responsible for quality
Assumptions
Team development Life Cycle
Verbal and Non-verbal
44. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Monte Carlo Technique
Mgmt Reserves
Critical Path Method
Progress Report
45. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Hygiene factors
FORMAL Communication
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
46. 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
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Verbal and Non-verbal
Mgmt by Objectives
Risk Triggers
47. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Distribute Information
Salience Model
Milestone list
Facilitator
48. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Commincations Mgmt plan
Crashing
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
49. One choice does not include any other choices
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Mutual Exclusivity
Implied warranty
Time series method
50. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Penalty Power
Milestone Schedule
Report Performance