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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






3. Delphi Technique Interviewing






4. 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






5. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






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






7. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






8. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






9. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






10. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






11. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






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






13. 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.






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






15. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






16. 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






17. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






18. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






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






20. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






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






22. Difference between internal and external risk






23. 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.






24. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






25. 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






26. The narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints - and a description of work - that provides a documents basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developi






27. Type of communication method between two or more parties performing a multidirectional exchange of information. It is the most efficient way to ensure a common understanding by all participants on specified topics - and inclues meetings - and phones






28. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






29. 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.






30. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






31. 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.






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






33. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






34. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






35. 3 main components of the communication model






36. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented






41. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






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






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






44. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them






45. 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)






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






47. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






48. Shows a reporting relationship between the resources in a organization. This structure is typically shown in company division - departments and group. Typicall is does not show details related to project organization and work






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






50. 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