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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






3. 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.






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






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






6. 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)






7. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






8. 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.






9. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)






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






11. 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






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






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






14. Communication in writing or oral






15. Delphi Technique Interviewing






16. 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






17. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?






18. Communication up and down the organization






19. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






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






21. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






22. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






23. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified






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






25. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.






26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....


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






28. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






29. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....






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






31. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






32. 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






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






34. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






35. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






36. Doing activites in parallel that are that are normally in sequence. Inc cost could occur with rework but additional risk could occur because of possible rework.






37. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






38. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)






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






40. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






41. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






42. 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






43. 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






44. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






45. 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






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






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






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






49. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






50. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities