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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes
Breach
Power/ Interest Grid
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Risk Triggers
2. In the project coordinator form of a matrix organization - project coordinators often....
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Status Reports
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
3. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
Internal comm
Mediator
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
RAM charts
4. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals
Director
Pull Communication
Salience Model
Salience Model
5. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Confronting/ Problem solving
Project management and quality
Status Reports
6. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted
Run of Seven Rule
Causal/econometric
Strong Matrix
Indentify Stakholders
7. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance
RAM charts
Mutual Exclusivity
Delphi Technique
Closing the project
8. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned
Create WBS
Distribute Information
Plan Communication
Work Package
9. An accelerant of an activity You use a lead when something can begin before its predecessor is totally complete
Status Reports
Smoothing/Accommodating
A lead
Influence/Impact grid
10. Activity A must be completed before Activity B
Verbal and Non-verbal
Free (or Total) float
Finish to Finish
Finish to Start (Most common)
11. Employee works a great deal on the project and assumes that the reward will be relative to the amount of effort or perceived effort
A Lag
Smoothing/Accommodating
Schedules - project priorities - resources
Expectancy Theory
12. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks
Perks
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Power/Influence Grid
Summary Schdule
13. 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
Nonconformance
Implied warranty
Organization Process Assests (OPA)
Stakeholder Analysis
14. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan
Autocratic
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Develop Human Resource Plan
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
15. Used for very large volumes of information or for very large audiences that requires the recipients to access the communication content at their own discretion - Inclued intranet sites - e-learning - and knowledge repositories
Pull Communication
Approved Change
Rolling Wave Planning
Concept of the Halo Theory
16. Characteristics which indicate that a risk event is possible in the near future. They are identified when the risk are identified
Impact
Risk Triggers
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
Level of Scope development
17. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Work Package
Expert Power
Judgemental methods
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
18. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
Finish to Start (Most common)
Report Performance
Free (or Total) float
19. Communication up and down the organization
Stakeholder Analysis
n *(n -1) /2
90%
Vertical Comm
20. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure
Run of Seven Rule
Fringe
Project Slack
Code of Accounts
21. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start
3 Processes of quality managment
Start to Finsh
Resource leveling
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
22. 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
Implied warranty
Project Scope Statement
Business Risk
Influence/Impact Grid
23. 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
Contingency Reserves
Finish to Start (Most common)
Mediator
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
24. 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
Delphi Technique
Summary Schdule
Collaborating
Nonconformance
25. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase
Distribute Information
Rolling Wave Planning
Code of Accounts
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
26. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?
Implied warranty
Create WBS
Root cause analysis
Conformance
27. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays
Fringe
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Status Reports
Director
28. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan
Pure Risk
Contingency Reserves
Fringe
Communications requirement analysis
29. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Salience Model
Forcasting
Communications requirement analysis
30. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Expert Power
Charateristics of a project
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Team development Life Cycle
31. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date
Judgemental methods
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Project Slack
Delphi Technique
32. 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.
Design of Experiments
Confronting/ Problem solving
Scope Baseline
Progress Report
33. Process of determining the project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach. Who needs what information - when they need it - how it will be provided to them and by whom.
Start to Start
Work Authorization System
Plan Communication
Critical Chain Method
34. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
Benchmarking
FORMAL Communication
Power/Influence Grid
35. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is
People responsible for quality
Activity List
Cost plus percentage of cost
Plan Risk Mgmt
36. Describes when and how human resource requirments will be met. It is part of the Human Reources plan wich in turn is part of the Project Managment plan
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
Staffing Mgmt Plan
90%
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
37. 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.
Run of Seven Rule
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
Causal/econometric
Secondary Risk
38. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance
Root cause analysis
Acquire Project Team
Director
Variance Analysis
39. Communication that is not on the record
Phase results are verified and documented
Project Selection
Unoffical Comm
Scope Baseline
40. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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41. Formal or informal system used in project management to ensure that the work is done as planned. It ensures that right work is done in the right order at the right time by the right people
Resource leveling
Salience Model
Work Authorization System
Develop Project Charter
42. Conflict Solution Negotiation attempt to get everyone involved to give (concede) a little to find a common ground and resloution. It is sometimes viewed as undesirable because when everyone give something up there is a potential that the solution wil
Life-cycle costing
Crashing
Compromising
Create WBS
43. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes
Free (or Total) float
Forcing
Verbal and Non-verbal
Push Communications
44. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project
Root cause analysis
Time series method
Change Control System
Risk Breakdown Structure
45. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
90%
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
Total Quality Management TQM
Nonconformance
46. 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
Breach
Gold Plating
Influence/Impact Grid
Life-cycle costing
47. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
Upper Control Limit (UCL) - Lower Control Limit (LCL)
Milestone list
3 Processes of quality managment
Finish to Finish
48. Process of using expert opinion - which could come from people already on the project or those outside the project or even the organization
6 process for Project Integration Mangement
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Work around
Delphi Technique
49. 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
Resource breakdown structure
Autocratic
Forcasting
Free (or Total) float
50. 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.
Residual Risk
Charismatic
Power/ Interest Grid
Commincations Mgmt plan