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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. 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.






2. Cost associated with conformance to requirements and the step taken to elimate non-conformance






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications






7. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught






8. Shows the overall state of the project - aka the sum of all reports






9. An output of Define Activites that identies all milestones and indicated whether the milestone is mandatory






10. Process of communication and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and addressing issues as they occur






11. The Process deciding how to approach and conduct the risk managment activities for a project






12. 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






13. A constraint put in place by something external to the project team or organization






14. The person responsible for a risk event if it occurs and is simialr to the person responsible for completing on activity






15. In fixed pricing the most important consideration is ____.






16. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start






17. The Process of prioritizing risk for further analysis or action by assessing and combining their probability of occurrence and impact - The Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives






18. 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)






19. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public






20. Process of tracking member performance. providing feedback - resolving issues - and managing changes to optimize project performance.






21. Approach for scheduling that emphasizes resources flexibility - by using duration buffers for resources - and leveling over the course of the project to accommadate






22. Standard is associated with companies that wish to document their process and adhere to those processes






23. Can come from the following factors: Business Need - Market Demand - technological advance - customer request - legal requirements






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






25. ompany pays for quality in a reactive way - on the back end - decrease morale - decrease customer perception Cost of Conformance and nonconformance examples...






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.






27. States that if you seven consecutive data points on either side of the mean - without crossing the other sid - the process is considered out of control and needs investigation






28. Diagramming type where the activity is on the arrow or line and the circle or box connects the activities






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






30. Request that have been through the changes control system and approved. They are now part of the project with any potential ipact now affecting the project Difference between requested changes and approved changes






31. Develop Project Charter - Develop Project Mgmt. Plan - Direct and Manage Project Execution - Monitor and Control Work - Perform Integrated Change Control - Close Project or Phase






32. Activity A start before Activity B finishes






33. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category






34. 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






35. A schedule network analysis technique applied to a schedule that has already been analyzed by the critical path method. It can be used when shared or critical required resources are only available at certain time - are only available in limited quan






36. Mock-up technique that uses software to simulate project charactereristics to determine possible outcome






37. 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






38. 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






39. Product Verfication - lesson learned - Updating records - reporting - archiving - formal acceptance






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






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






42. Conflict Solution where there is an action in which a direct order to resolve something is given. It is typically the worst type of conflict resolution.






43. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






44. 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






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






46. What is the output of Identify Risk?






47. 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






48. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






49. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






50. People make good project manager simply because they are good in their fields - regardless of background training in project management