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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)
Push Communications
LAG
Reward Power
Project Scope Statment
2. 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
Summary Schdule
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Sample Testing
3. 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
90%
Organization Breakdown Structure
Confronting/ Problem solving
Conformance
4. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Stakeholder Analysis
6 sigma
Verbal and Non-verbal
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
5. 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
Work Package
Horizontal Comm
Influence/Impact grid
Resource leveling
6. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Finish to Start (Most common)
Strong Matrix
Causal/econometric
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
7. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Contraints
Change Control Board
Work Authorization System
Life-cycle costing
8. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Risk Triggers
Risk Owner
Requested Changes
Smoothing and withdrawal
9. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Indentify Stakholders
FORMAL Communication
Nonconformance
10. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Compromising
Forcing
Strong Matrix
11. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.
Resource breakdown structure
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Forcing
3 Processes of quality managment
12. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Facilitator
Finish to Start (Most common)
Emphasis on defining scope
Penalty Power
13. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Charateristics of a project
Closing the project
Indentify Stakholders
Delphi Technique
14. 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
Run of Seven Rule
Concept of the Halo Theory
Mutual Exclusivity
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
15. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Level of Scope development
Oganization breakdown structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
Total Quality Management TQM
16. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create
Bottom-up estimating
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Rolling Wave Planning
Team development Life Cycle
17. A milestone has a ______duration
Unoffical Comm
Mutual Exclusivity
Develop Human Resource Plan
Zero duration
18. Communication up and down the organization
Vertical Comm
Influence/Impact grid
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Nonconformance
19. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
6 sigma
Finish to Finish
Influence/Impact Grid
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
20. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
The 100% Rule
n *(n -1) /2
Reward Power
21. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Work around
Mediator
Vertical Comm
Rolling Wave Planning
22. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Sample Testing
Forcasting
Project management and quality
23. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Emphasis on defining scope
Nonconformance
Autocratic
Horizontal Comm
24. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Commincations Mgmt plan
Pull Communication
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Withdrawing/Avoiding
25. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Resource breakdown structure
Pull Communication
Reward Power
Staffing Mgmt Plan
26. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Influence/Impact grid
Project Selection
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
27. 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
Project Scope Statment
Bottom-up Estimating
RAM charts
Written or oral
28. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
A Lag
Run Chart
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
29. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
Develop Project Team
FORMAL Communication
External Contraints
Design of Experiments
30. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
Project Scope Statement
Scheduling
Push Communications
31. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Facilitator
Mgmt by Objectives
Work Authorization System
Forcasting
32. 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)
Acquire Project Team
Mgmt by Objectives
Fast Tracking
Critical Path Method
33. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Elements of scope
Sample Testing
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Variance Analysis
34. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Elements of scope
Change Control System
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
3 Processes of quality managment
35. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Demings' 14 principles of Management
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
36. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Project Scope Statement
Code of Accounts
Push Communications
Scope Baseline
37. 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
Delphi Technique
A Lag
The 100% Rule
38. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Secondary Risk
Influence/Impact grid
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Director
39. 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
Rolling Wave Planning
Bottom-up Estimating
External Comm
Bottom-up estimating
40. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Plan Risk Mgmt
41. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
6 sigma
Work Authorization System
Charismatic
Risk Triggers
42. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project
Bottom-up estimating
Pareto Diagram
Stakeholder Analysis
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
43. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
n *(n -1) /2
Risk Triggers
Influence/Impact Grid
44. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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45. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Influence/Impact Grid
Design of Experiments
Confronting/ Problem solving
46. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Influence/Impact Grid
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
FORMAL Communication
47. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Critical Path Method
Work Authorization System
Milestone list
48. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Unoffical Comm
Approved Change
Strong Matrix
People responsible for quality
49. Practice of providing more than what the customer request
Gold Plating
Work Package
Statistical Independence
Charismatic
50. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
Develop Project Charter
Work Package
Emphasis on defining scope
Withdrawing/Avoiding