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PMP: Project Management Professional
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1. Which organization does conflict occur the most in managing projects
Rolling Wave Planning
Strong Matrix
Assumptions
Project Scope Statement
2. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Coaching
Emphasis on defining scope
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
3. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Create WBS
Work around
Finish to Finish
4. Activity A start before Activity B finishes
Rolling Wave Planning
Approved Change
Start to Finsh
Withdrawing/Avoiding
5. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.
Expert Power
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
Smoothing/Accommodating
Risk breakdown structure
6. 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
Code of Accounts
Causal/econometric
Change Control System
7. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function
Forcasting
Organization Breakdown Structure
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
6 sigma
8. 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
Finish to Start (Most common)
Summary Schdule
Root cause analysis
External Comm
9. What is the number source of conflict?
Charateristics of a project
Finish to Start (Most common)
Run of Seven Rule
Scheduling
10. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Written or oral
PMIS
Work around
Plan Risk Mgmt
11. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
People responsible for quality
Start to Start
Push Communications
Contraints
12. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Work around
Contingency Reserves
Activity List
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
13. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Closing the project
Distribute Information
Root cause analysis
Written or oral
14. One choice does not include any other choices
Influence/Impact grid
Power/ Interest Grid
Critical Path Method
Mutual Exclusivity
15. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
Time series method
Crashing
Risk Owner
Sample Testing
16. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Work around
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Causal/econometric
Benchmarking
17. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments
Work Authorization System
Acquire Project Team
Zero duration
Milestone list
18. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
A Lag
Business Risk
Referent Power
19. 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
Bottom-up estimating
Team development Life Cycle
Mediator
Work Package
20. Plan defines the communication needs of the stakeholders - the communications format and frequency and who delivers them. It can include reports meeting scehdules - changes process and contact information for the team.
Commincations Mgmt plan
Requested Changes
Delphi Technique
Charateristics of a project
21. 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
Finish to Finish
Cost of Quality
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
22. Type of Mgmt style where managers have strong or unlimited power and authority
Autocratic
Power/ Interest Grid
Smoothing/Accommodating
Cost of Quality
23. Type of Mgmt Style where managers have an appealing persona that makes team members enjoy working with them
Charismatic
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Collaborating
Status Reports
24. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Compromising
Report Performance
Milestone Schedule
25. A milestone has a ______duration
Milestone list
Zero duration
Resource leveling
6 sigma
26. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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27. Document that develops and helps attain buy-in on a common interpretation of the project scope. It can describe what it is - as wel as what is not - in the project
Vertical Comm
Project Scope Statment
Bottom-up Estimating
Mutual Exclusivity
28. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Elements of scope
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Secondary Risk
29. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects
Schedules - project priorities - resources
External Contraints
Make money and to protect the public
n *(n -1) /2
30. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Perks
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Bill of materials
Milestone Schedule
31. 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.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Oganization breakdown structure
Stakeholder Analysis
32. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Director
Status Reports
Risk Triggers
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
33. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Mutual Exclusivity
Change Control System
Risk Register
Salience Model
34. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Mutual Exclusivity
Brainstorming
Director
35. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Crashing
Charismatic
Confronting/ Problem solving
ISO 3 Steps
36. 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.
Report Performance
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Scope Baseline
Influence/Impact grid
37. 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
Confronting/ Problem solving
Variance Analysis
Mgmt Reserves
Commincations Mgmt plan
38. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
People responsible for quality
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Code of Accounts
Phase results are verified and documented
39. 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
Judgemental methods
Verbal and Non-verbal
PMIS
Organization Breakdown Structure
40. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Collaborating
A Lag
Activity List
Risk Triggers
41. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Controlling communication
Pure Risk
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
42. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Work Package
LAG
Implied warranty
43. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Code of Accounts
Contraints
Breach
LAG
44. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations
Forcasting
Smoothing and withdrawal
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Life-cycle costing
45. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Risk Register
Free (or Total) float
Approved Change
Concept of the Halo Theory
46. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Impact
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
47. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Activity List
Scatter Diagram
Penalty Power
Develop Human Resource Plan
48. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
Mediator
6 sigma
49. 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
Fast Tracking
Just-in-time (JIT)
Plan Risk Mgmt
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
50. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
A Lag
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Project management and quality