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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the output of Identify Risk?
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Risk Register
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
n *(n -1) /2
2. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Manage Project Team
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Influence/Impact grid
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
3. Communication formula
n *(n -1) /2
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Breach
4. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
5. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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6. 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
Life-cycle costing
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Risk Triggers
Indentify Stakholders
7. 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)
Acquire Project Team
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Delphi Technique
Resource breakdown structure
8. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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9. Delphi Technique Interviewing
Bottom-up Estimating
Risk Register
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Brainstorming
10. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Push Communications
Indentify Risk
Benchmarking
Demings' 14 principles of Management
11. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
Manage Project Team
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Phase results are verified and documented
Monte Carlo Technique
12. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Fast Tracking
Secondary Risk
Develop Human Resource Plan
13. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Start to Finsh
Collaborating
Root cause analysis
Contingency Reserves
14. Communication in writing or oral
LAG
Written or oral
Commincations Mgmt plan
Life-cycle costing
15. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Charateristics of a project
Push Communications
Strong Matrix
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
16. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Oganization breakdown structure
Team development Life Cycle
Director
Penalty Power
17. What is the number source of conflict?
External Contraints
Scheduling
Strong Matrix
Expectancy Theory
18. 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
Closing the project
Rolling Wave Planning
Resource leveling
Expectancy Theory
19. 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
Impact
Milestone Schedule
Indentify Risk
Referent Power
20. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership
Resource breakdown structure
Unoffical Comm
Requested Changes
Facilitator
21. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Pull Communication
Risk Owner
Status Reports
Controlling communication
22. 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
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Elements of scope
Start to Finsh
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
23. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
Confronting/ Problem solving
Scatter Diagram
Formal Power
6 sigma
24. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
Bill of materials
Charateristics of a project
Code of Accounts
90%
25. 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
Mgmt by Objectives
Power/ Interest Grid
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Develop Project Team
26. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Director
Contraints
Level of Scope development
FORMAL Communication
27. Commuincation within the project
Internal comm
Delphi Technique
Project management and quality
LAG
28. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Closing the project
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Start to Finsh
Summary Schdule
29. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Oganization breakdown structure
Cost plus percentage of cost
Team development Life Cycle
Resource leveling
30. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
LAG
Root cause analysis
Cost plus percentage of cost
31. 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
Gold Plating
Variance Analysis
Conformance
Pull Communication
32. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
Collaborating
Report Performance
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Milestone Schedule
33. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Progress Report
Smoothing and withdrawal
Autocratic
Project management and quality
34. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Team development Life Cycle
Communications requirement analysis
Change Control System
Pareto Diagram
35. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Project management and quality
Milestone list
Scatter Diagram
A Lag
36. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears
Fringe
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Hygiene factors
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
37. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things
Hygiene factors
Elements of scope
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Resource breakdown structure
38. 3 main components of the communication model
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
Gold Plating
39. Communication up and down the organization
Reward Power
Monte Carlo Technique
Vertical Comm
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
40. 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.
Perks
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Scope Baseline
n *(n -1) /2
41. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists
Scatter Diagram
Expectancy Theory
Collaborating
Penalty Power
42. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Verbal and Non-verbal
A lead
Root cause analysis
43. An inventory managment process that lets a company have little or no excess inventory in stock- Ideally a stocks ZERO inventory with supplies arriving only when needed for the products being built
Director
Stakeholder Analysis
A Lag
Just-in-time (JIT)
44. Inputs to many processes that deal with variables external to the project - such as imfomation systems and company policies and procedures. They can include process definitions - templates - organizations communications needs
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Benchmarking
Vertical Comm
45. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
Collaborating
Mgmt by Objectives
Statistical Independence
46. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization
Forcing
Sigma
External Contraints
Finish to Start (Most common)
47. 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
Variance Analysis
Cost plus percentage of cost
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
48. Shows the type of resources broken down
Project Selection
Resource breakdown structure
Create WBS
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
49. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team
ISO 3 Steps
Pareto Diagram
Business Risk
Develop Project Team
50. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk
Project Scope Statment
Pure Risk
Forcing
Summary Schdule