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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Mgmt by Objectives
Free (or Total) float
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Critical Path Method
2. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur
Impact
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Compromising
3. Difference between internal and external risk
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Elements of scope
Contingency Reserves
Summary Schdule
4. A comprehesive list including all schedule activites required on the project
Cost plus percentage of cost
Start to Finsh
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Activity List
5. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Level of Scope development
Penalty Power
Distribute Information
Unoffical Comm
6. One choice does not include any other choices
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
Mutual Exclusivity
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Finish to Start (Most common)
7. Key tool for comparing a product or service to other standards
Benchmarking
PMIS
Summary Schdule
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
8. 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
Report Performance
Code of Accounts
Business Risk
Mediator
9. It means that you are current on commincation activity and that you are kept in the project communication loop as musch as possible
Hygiene factors
Controlling communication
Acquire Project Team
Schedules - project priorities - resources
10. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Risk Breakdown Structure
A lead
Pareto Diagram
External Comm
11. 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.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Fast Tracking
Pareto Diagram
Work around
12. 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
Charismatic
Push Communications
RAM charts
A lead
13. Communication with peers
Indentify Risk
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Horizontal Comm
Judgemental methods
14. Communication that is not on the record
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Unoffical Comm
Phase results are verified and documented
15. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility
Project management and quality
Requested Changes
Expectancy Theory
Project Scope Statment
16. If the contract is not completed by the contractor either for failure to comply - bankruptcy etc. this is know as
Scheduling
Smoothing/Accommodating
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Breach
17. The amount of risk remaining after a risk response 9from the risk reponse plan) has been implemented
Formal Power
Pure Risk
Residual Risk
Rolling Wave Planning
18. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Bill of materials
Director
FORMAL Communication
19. Process of indentify all people or organization impacted by the project and documenting relevant infromationo regarding their interests - involvement - and impact on project success
Zero duration
Power/Influence Grid
Plan Risk Mgmt
Indentify Stakholders
20. A network diagramming technique in which schedule activites are represented by boxes (or nodes)
Crashing
Indentify Risk
Impact
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
21. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
Work Authorization System
Judgemental methods
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Activity List
22. 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
Work Package
Project Scope Statment
Crashing
Activity List
23. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
ISO 3 Steps
Salience Model
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Root cause analysis
24. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique
Risk Breakdown Structure
Root cause analysis
Charateristics of a project
Work Authorization System
25. 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.
External Comm
Facilitator
Scope Baseline
Referent Power
26. 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.
Manage Stakeholders Expectations
Free (or Total) float
People responsible for quality
Risk Breakdown Structure
27. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory
Milestone list
Breach
External Contraints
Team development Life Cycle
28. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.
Impact
Emphasis on defining scope
Strong Matrix
Demings' 14 principles of Management
29. 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.
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Visionary
internal risk can be controlled but external cannot be controlled
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
30. Communication in writing or oral
Indentify Stakholders
Just-in-time (JIT)
Written or oral
Risk breakdown structure
31. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment
Director
Change Control System
Sigma
Collaborating
32. 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
Team development Life Cycle
Autocratic
Approved Change
Interactive Communication
33. Earlier in the project - the PM does directing - as the project evolves the PM shifts towards coaching. As the project gets a great deal of work accomplished - the PM goes to a Facilitator. The PM then goes to support at project closure
Start to Finsh
Mgmt by Objectives
Leadership and Managment Styles within the project managment life cycle
Impact
34. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
The 100% Rule
Indentify Risk
Requested Changes
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
35. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Scheduling
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Project Selection
Sample Testing
36. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Resource breakdown structure
Conformance
Bottom-up Estimating
Horizontal Comm
37. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
Project Scope Statement
Manage Project Team
Nonconformance
Free (or Total) float
38. Classification Models (for Stakeholder Analysis)
Smoothing/Accommodating
Salience Model
Life-cycle costing
FORMAL Communication
39. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Charateristics of a project
Change Control System
Reward Power
Monte Carlo Technique
40. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Concept of the Halo Theory
Resource breakdown structure
Risk Register
Salience Model
41. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
Collaborating
Pull Communication
Oganization breakdown structure
Delphi Technique
42. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity
A lead
Verbal and Non-verbal
Strong Matrix
Risk Owner
43. 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
FORMAL Communication
Causal/econometric
Summary Schdule
90%
44. 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
Start to Start
Start to Finsh
Distribute Information
Confronting/ Problem solving
45. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Phase results are verified and documented
Gold Plating
Create WBS
Work Package
46. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Referent Power
Develop Human Resource Plan
The 100% Rule
Start to Finsh
47. 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
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48. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report
Offical
Start to Finsh
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Run Chart
49. Shows how the project organization is structure to accomplish project activities
Registered to the international quality standards ISO 9001
Zero duration
Benchmarking
Oganization breakdown structure
50. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Life-cycle costing
Fringe
Plan Risk Mgmt
Smoothing/Accommodating