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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Forecasting method that incorporates intuitive judgement - opinions and probability estimates
Judgemental methods
Create WBS
Influence/Impact Grid
Work Authorization System
2. Type of Mgmt style that tries to find a common goal when there is a disagreement. This style is ideal when there are varying technical opinions or disagreement among resources managers
Vertical Comm
6 sigma
Mediator
3 Processes of quality managment
3. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Monte Carlo Technique
Perks
Smoothing/Accommodating
Withdrawing/Avoiding
4. 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
Influence/Impact Grid
Referent Power
Level of Scope development
Expert Power
5. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Pure Risk
Offical
Activity List
Root cause analysis
6. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma
Risk Owner
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Plan Communication
Analogous or Top down Estimating
7. Communication in writing or oral
Written or oral
Communications requirement analysis
Scatter Diagram
Work Authorization System
8. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Run Chart
Breach
Work around
Finish to Start (Most common)
9. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.
Manage Project Team
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Total Quality Management TQM
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
10. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives
Design of Experiments
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Life-cycle costing
Organization Breakdown Structure
11. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Impact
Compromising
12. One choice does not include any other choices
Critical Path Method
Referent Power
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Mutual Exclusivity
13. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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14. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
External Comm
Mutual Exclusivity
Causal/econometric
Code of Accounts
15. 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
Breach
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
ISO 3 Steps
Milestone list
16. 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
Project Scope Statment
Rolling Wave Planning
Emphasis on defining scope
Closing the project
17. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues
Contraints
Resource breakdown structure
Develop Human Resource Plan
Smoothing/Accommodating
18. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Monte Carlo Technique
FORMAL Communication
Hygiene factors
Root cause analysis
19. Commuincation within the project
External Contraints
Internal comm
Change Control System
Push Communications
20. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Time series method
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Project Selection
21. 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
Project Scope Statment
Contraints
Work Authorization System
Team development Life Cycle
22. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management
Expert Power
Concept of the Halo Theory
Plan Risk Mgmt
Scheduling
23. Communication formula
Salience Model
n *(n -1) /2
Project Selection
Risk breakdown structure
24. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Forcing
Residual Risk
25. Schedule typically used in executive repoting with each milestone having a zero duration. It lack detail - generally listing only the main project milestones as diamonds instead of the Gantt bars
Milestone Schedule
Influence/Impact Grid
Run of Seven Rule
Push Communications
26. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Sample Testing
Plan Risk Mgmt
Critical Path Method
27. 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
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Reward Power
Activity List
28. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan
Work Authorization System
Gold Plating
Communications requirement analysis
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
29. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
Closing the project
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Just-in-time (JIT)
Project Scope Statment
30. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Develop Project Team
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Free (or Total) float
Acquire Project Team
31. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Gold Plating
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Withdrawing/Avoiding
Emphasis on defining scope
32. Used with sceduling enviroments in which a forward pass establishes the easrliest the activities can start (ES) and finish (EF) and a backward pass establishes the latest the activites can start (LS) and finish (LF)
Gold Plating
Analogous or Top down Estimating
Residual Risk
Critical Path Method
33. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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34. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Expert Power
Controlling communication
Risk breakdown structure
35. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment
Schedules - project priorities - resources
FORMAL Communication
Mediator
Develop Human Resource Plan
36. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated
Change Control Board
Acquire Project Team
Charateristics of a project
Code of Accounts
37. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness
Free (or Total) float
Smoothing/Accommodating
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Change Control Board
38. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company
Delphi Technique
Phase results are verified and documented
Smoothing and withdrawal
People responsible for quality
39. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
PMIS
Manage Project Team
Nonconformance
40. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Develop Project Charter
Total Quality Management TQM
FORMAL Communication
Closing the project
41. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Collaborating
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
42. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Scatter Diagram
Coaching
Mutual Exclusivity
Status Reports
43. Communication up and down the organization
Power/ Interest Grid
Vertical Comm
Approved Change
Manage Project Team
44. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Nonconformance
Code of Accounts
45. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves
Mgmt Reserves
Business Risk
Run of Seven Rule
Hygiene factors
46. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
PMIS
Reward Power
Critical Chain Method
Salience Model
47. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Crashing
Internal comm
Risk Triggers
Horizontal Comm
48. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Collaborating
Risk breakdown structure
Sigma
49. 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
The 100% Rule
Influence/Impact Grid
Interactive Communication
Critical Chain Method
50. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Bottom-up estimating
Project management and quality
Work Package
Crashing