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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Conformance
Offical
Implied warranty
2. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Impact
Progress Report
Pure Risk
Time series method
3. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Critical Path Method
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Status Reports
Expert Power
4. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Strong Matrix
Project Scope Statement
Milestone list
Perks
5. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Work around
Critical Chain Method
Director
6. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Mediator
Cost plus percentage of cost
3 Processes of quality managment
7. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Residual Risk
Cost of Quality
Change Control System
Rolling Wave Planning
8. 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
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Coaching
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Milestone Schedule
9. 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
RAM charts
Rolling Wave Planning
Start to Finsh
Pure Risk
10. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Report Performance
Forcasting
Reward Power
Push Communications
11. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Delphi Technique
Sigma
Strong Matrix
RAM charts
12. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Activity List
Crashing
Time series method
Summary Schdule
13. Difference between internal and external risk
Written or oral
Total Quality Management TQM
Closing the project
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
14. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
n *(n -1) /2
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Life-cycle costing
15. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Change Control Board
Controlling communication
Activity List
Breach
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
Collaborating
Bottom-up estimating
Confronting/ Problem solving
Interactive Communication
17. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Project Scope Statment
3 Processes of quality managment
18. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Variance Analysis
Run Chart
Penalty Power
Pure Risk
19. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Run Chart
ISO 3 Steps
Risk breakdown structure
Variance Analysis
20. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Variance Analysis
ISO 3 Steps
Plan Communication
Finish to Finish
21. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Referent Power
Risk Owner
Project Scope Statement
Free (or Total) float
22. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Delphi Technique
Summary Schdule
Resource breakdown structure
Life-cycle costing
23. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Work Authorization System
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Formal Power
Mgmt by Objectives
24. 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
Risk Triggers
Finish to Finish
Reward Power
Work Authorization System
25. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Breach
Phase results are verified and documented
Time series method
Hygiene factors
26. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
A lead
Stakeholder Analysis
Risk Owner
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
27. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Work Authorization System
Run Chart
Summary Schdule
Finish to Finish
28. 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
Residual Risk
Time series method
Report Performance
29. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Scheduling
Life-cycle costing
Charateristics of a project
30. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Root cause analysis
Life-cycle costing
Change Control Board
31. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
External Contraints
Implied warranty
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Power/Influence Grid
32. 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.
Visionary
Pareto Diagram
Risk Register
Gold Plating
33. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Charateristics of a project
Free (or Total) float
Rolling Wave Planning
Project Scope Statment
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
35. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Project management and quality
Acquire Project Team
Confronting/ Problem solving
Influence/Impact grid
36. 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.
Interactive Communication
Risk Breakdown Structure
Vertical Comm
Salience Model
37. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Crashing
Project Slack
Benchmarking
38. 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
Develop Human Resource Plan
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Scope Baseline
39. 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
Code of Accounts
Mgmt by Objectives
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Controlling communication
40. Communication in writing or oral
Level of Scope development
Finish to Finish
Written or oral
Mutual Exclusivity
41. 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.
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
External Contraints
Organization Breakdown Structure
Influence/Impact grid
42. Type of power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team
ISO 3 Steps
Breach
Referent Power
Forcasting
43. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Visionary
Unoffical Comm
90%
Manage Project Team
44. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.
Verbal and Non-verbal
Salience Model
Manage Project Team
Push Communications
45. 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.
Work around
Causal/econometric
Assumptions
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
46. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Expert Power
Risk breakdown structure
Power/Influence Grid
Sigma
47. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
Plan Communication
Strong Matrix
External Comm
Requested Changes
48. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Risk Triggers
Verbal and Non-verbal
Director
Rolling Wave Planning
49. 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
Charateristics of a project
Project Slack
Run of Seven Rule
Confronting/ Problem solving
50. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
ISO 3 Steps
Root cause analysis
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Code of Accounts