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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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






2. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)






3. 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






4. Team members - quality of their work - Project Manager - quality on the project - Senior Exe - quality standards at the company






5. Type of Mgmt style where the PM sees what can be - where the company or team needs to go. Focusing more on the big picture of the company - with others focusing on the day to day events.






6. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






7. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale






8. 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






9. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






10. The company's quality system must conform to the criteria set forth in ISO 9001.






11. A constraint that must be completed before subsequent items can start






12. Concept that defines a low level of detail on the WBS for immediate work being accomplished while the work to be done in the future is only at the highlevel of decomposition in the WBS until it is soon to be started. The concept that utilizes the pro






13. Process of collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecast






14. Play a huge role in planning - When you perform project management part of the concept of Planning is to deal with items unkown. You must make assumptions for scheduling and bugeting. In most cases as the project evoles - you learn more about it.






15. Information Gathering Techniques from Identify Risks - tools and technique






16. Tool that factors in the communications requirments to ensure they are properly address in the communication Mgmt plan






17. 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






18. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse






19. 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






20. Activity B msut be Finish by the time Activity A is finish






21. 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






22. The most common causes of conflict in a multi-project environment






23. States that 100% of the work of a project needs to be represented in the creation of the WBS. What is the 100% rule?






24. What warranty type relates to merchantablily or fitness for use?






25. Communication formula






26. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?






27. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired






28. 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.






29. On creating a written project scope statement to be used in the future project decision making.






30. Type of Mgmt style that helps keep things progressing making them occur. This style is not super proactive nor does it have ownership






31. Benefits that everyone receives in the company i.e Ins or paid holidays






32. The conflict resolutions modes that are least likely to resolve situations






33. 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.






34. A delay between activities. You use it when there is some type of constraint in which something must wait before it can continue






35. Aka Standard Deviation. It is considered the quality standard. 1 Sigma - 68.26% 2 Sigma - 95.45% 3. Sigma - 99.73%






36. Difference between internal and external risk






37. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






38. 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)






39. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure






40. Invokes determining the latest that an activity can start w/o delaying the activites that follow it.






41. 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






42. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....

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43. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






44. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






45. Request made by someone on a project not approved and has no impact






46. 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






47. One choice does not include any other choices






48. 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






49. Used to asses the impact and consequnces of requested changes on the project






50. Group whose function is to review - approve or reject changes on the project as they relate to the various areas of the represented bussiness