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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Referent Power
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Team development Life Cycle
2. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Critical Chain Method
Create WBS
People responsible for quality
Risk breakdown structure
3. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Assumptions
Activity List
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
4. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur
Work Authorization System
Change Control Board
Closing the project
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
5. 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
Commincations Mgmt plan
Rolling Wave Planning
Salience Model
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
6. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...
Create WBS
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Variance Analysis
Nonconformance
7. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Root cause analysis
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Influence/Impact grid
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
8. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Risk breakdown structure
Perks
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Causal/econometric
9. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
A Lag
Resource breakdown structure
Impact
Smoothing and withdrawal
10. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Start to Start
Project Slack
Fringe
Business Risk
11. 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.
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Statistical Independence
Influence/Impact grid
Develop Project Charter
12. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
A lead
Nonconformance
Make money and to protect the public
Emphasis on defining scope
13. 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.
Scope Baseline
Charismatic
Statistical Independence
Acquire Project Team
14. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
Work Authorization System
Expectancy Theory
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Brainstorming
15. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations
3 Processes of quality managment
Resource breakdown structure
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Develop Project Charter
16. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish
Finish to Finish
Salience Model
Salience Model
Work Package
17. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Judgemental methods
Statistical Independence
Formal Power
18. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Level of Scope development
Monte Carlo Technique
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
19. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
Risk breakdown structure
Director
Design of Experiments
Cost plus percentage of cost
20. 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
Coaching
Interactive Communication
Salience Model
Penalty Power
21. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Work Package
Fringe
Crashing
22. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Resource breakdown structure
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Contingency Reserves
Analogous or Top down Estimating
23. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Organization Breakdown Structure
Emphasis on defining scope
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Controlling communication
24. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Develop Human Resource Plan
RAM charts
Power/Influence Grid
25. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Requested Changes
Develop Human Resource Plan
Indentify Risk
26. Responsiblity Assignment Matrix The tool lets the project team know who is involved in each area and what they are responsible for an in what area
Requested Changes
LAG
RAM charts
Zero duration
27. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Delphi Technique
Design of Experiments
Gold Plating
Start to Finsh
28. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Total Quality Management TQM
Brainstorming
Closing the project
Root cause analysis
29. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Develop Project Charter
PMIS
Resource breakdown structure
Zero duration
30. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?
The 100% Rule
Organization Breakdown Structure
Risk Owner
Contingency Reserves
31. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel
Judgemental methods
Vertical Comm
Resource breakdown structure
Develop Project Charter
32. 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
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Finish to Start (Most common)
External Comm
Monte Carlo Technique
33. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
ISO 3 Steps
Offical
Communications requirement analysis
Power/Influence Grid
34. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Forcasting
Breach
Mgmt by Objectives
Smoothing/Accommodating
35. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
n *(n -1) /2
Fringe
Nonconformance
36. When an activity cannot be estimated with a resonable degree of confidence the work within the activity is decomposed into more detail. Estimates are made to the smallest incremental level need and then aggregated into a total quantity for each of th
Bottom-up Estimating
Work Authorization System
Mediator
Push Communications
37. 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)
LAG
Influence/Impact Grid
Start to Finsh
Bill of materials
38. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Internal comm
Free (or Total) float
Work around
Project Slack
39. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Create WBS
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Residual Risk
40. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Causal/econometric
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Salience Model
Time series method
41. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.
Forcing
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Risk breakdown structure
Nonconformance
42. Chart used Project Management on the left - Talbe of information (Usually activities - dates - resources etc) on Right - horizontal bars showing when those activities are occuring use it to track the day-to-day.
LAG
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Benchmarking
Risk Register
43. 3 main components of the communication model
Impact
Zero duration
Conformance
Sender Message/Receiver - Medium - type of format of the message
44. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Expectancy Theory
Change Control System
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
45. 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
46. 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.
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Design of Experiments
Communications requirement analysis
Mgmt Reserves
47. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Stakeholder Analysis
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Plan Risk Mgmt
Expert Power
48. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Manage Project Team
Charismatic
Concept of the Halo Theory
49. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Activity List
Forcasting
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
50. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Power/ Interest Grid
Mgmt by Objectives
Resource leveling