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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






2. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management






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






4. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






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






6. Type of Grid that groups the stakholders based on their active involvement in the project and their ability to effect changes to the projects planning or execution






7. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






8. 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.






9. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






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






11. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






12. Communication formula






13. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






14. 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






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






16. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






17. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






18. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort






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






20. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






21. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame






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






23. 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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24. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






25. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness






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






27. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure






28. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






29. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






30. 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.






31. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil






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






33. 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)






34. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business






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






36. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






37. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






38. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






39. 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






40. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted






41. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






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






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






44. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






45. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






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






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






48. One choice does not include any other choices






49. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes






50. 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