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PMP: Project Management Professional
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Communication in writing or oral
Mgmt by Objectives
Written or oral
Project Scope Statement
Visionary
2. 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
Plan Risk Mgmt
Phase results are verified and documented
Brainstorming
Team development Life Cycle
3. Type of communication that convey more than just words (inflection of voice body language)
Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Forcasting
Contingency Reserves
Verbal and Non-verbal
4. 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.
Collaborating
Pareto Diagram
Scope Baseline
Often assign project tasks to the various functionals managers
5. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control
External Comm
3 Processes of quality managment
Finish to Finish
Fast Tracking
6. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.
Project Slack
Salience Model
PERT Program Evaluation Review Technique
ISO 9000 (International Org for Standardization)
7. 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
Pure Risk
Penalty Power
Indentify Stakholders
Pull Communication
8. Company pays for quality in a proactive way - typically up front in the planning area of a project ie - increase morale
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Conformance
Risk Triggers
Critical Chain Method
9. Inputs to many process because they deal w/ variables external to the project such as government requlations and market conditions. Examples are org structure govt standards - personnel - policies business market
Fishbone AKA cause/effect diagram
Code of Accounts
Coaching
EEF - Enterprise Enviromental Factors
10. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?
IT indicates that there is a range of possible outcomes
Power/ Interest Grid
Scheduling
Multiplying the risk's probability of occurrence by its estimated impact
11. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.
Phase results are verified and documented
Smoothing and withdrawal
Formal Power
Life-cycle costing
12. Risk that is typically uninsurable. Its a risk inherent in the porcess of doing business
Secondary Risk
Business Risk
Mgmt by Objectives
3 Processes of quality managment
13. Shows what has been accomplished at a given time frame
Power/Influence Grid
Forcasting
Root cause analysis
Progress Report
14. 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.
Plan Risk Mgmt
Change Control System
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Logic Bar Chart (Gantt Chart)
15. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components
Create WBS
n *(n -1) /2
Indentify Risk
Schedules - project priorities - resources
16. Calculating the expected monetary value (EMV) of a project risk is found by....
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17. Used for - legal communication and project documents - When distance or extreme complexity are involve - official situations - presentations - primarily one directional communications
LAG
Project management and quality
FORMAL Communication
Proprietary Quality Management Methodolgies
18. A jeopardy that results from the implementation of a risk repsonse
Scheduling
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Mandatory Constraints (Hard logic)
Secondary Risk
19. What is the output of Identify Risk?
Statistical Independence
Director
Risk Register
Scope Baseline
20. You determine how the much of something must be tested to ensure that defects are caught
Sample Testing
Risk Register
Risk Owner
Horizontal Comm
21. Communication that is not on the record
Level of Scope development
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
Unoffical Comm
Power/Influence Grid
22. 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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23. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle
Milestone Schedule
Stakeholder Mgmt Stategy
External Comm
Progress Report
24. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process
ISO 3 Steps
Director
Steps for using the Stakeholder Analysis
Continous Improvement (Kaizen)
25. 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
Compromising
Risk Breakdown Structure
Total Quality Management TQM
Referent Power
26. Components - assemblies - sub assemblies used to build a product or service Whaty are the 4 breakdown structures?
Bill of materials
Organization Breakdown Structure
Risk Breakdown Structure
Forcasting
27. Forecasting method that uses historical data as the basis for estimating future outcomes
Time series method
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Commincations Mgmt plan
Facilitator
28. 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
Causal/econometric
The 100% Rule
Mgmt by Objectives
Summary Schdule
29. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed
Root cause analysis
FORMAL Communication
Reward Power
Residual Risk
30. The Process of predicating furture project performance based on the actual performance to date.
Facilitator
Rolling Wave Planning
Forcasting
Reward Power
31. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
Internal comm
Plan Communication
Offical
32. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement
Contingency Reserves
Reward Power
Total Quality Management TQM
Resource breakdown structure
33. 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
Work Authorization System
A lead
Expectancy Theory
Time series method
34. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.
Precendence Diagramming Method (activity on the node)
Develop Project Team
Formal Power
Mgmt by Objectives
35. 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
Sequence for Closure (for a project) Ver2
Demings' 14 principles of Management
Breach
Bottom-up estimating
36. Self Actualization - Esteem - Belonging - Saftey - Physological
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37. Communication with customer - other project - the media - and the public
RAM charts
Gold Plating
External Comm
Schedules - project priorities - resources
38. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money
Change Control System
Mgmt by Objectives
IRR - Interal Rate of Return
Director
39. A constraint that should be completed but is not absolutly required to be completed before subsequent item can start
Salience Model
Conflict between functional manager and project manager
6 sigma
Discretionary (Soft Logic)
40. Worst form of power to use. People experience negative impact if they don't do what is desired
Penalty Power
Arrow diagramming method (ADM)
Fringe
Oganization breakdown structure
41. 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
Penalty Power
Charateristics of a project
Indentify Stakholders
42. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure
Run Chart
Crashing
Emphasis on defining scope
The 100% Rule
43. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another
Milestone list
90%
Staffing Mgmt Plan
Statistical Independence
44. Shows the risk that potentially occur broken down by risk category
Time series method
Statistical Independence
Rolling Wave Planning
Risk breakdown structure
45. What % of time does a Project manager spend on communications?
90%
Delphi Technique
3 Processes of quality managment
The 100% Rule
46. 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.
Nonconformance
Assumptions
Resource leveling
Project Slack
47. A deliverable or project work component at the lowest level of each branch of the work breakdown structure
Contraints
Power/ Interest Grid
Work Package
Influence/Impact Grid
48. Document what you do - Do what you document - Document any variance (from the normal process)
Work around
Contingency Reserves
Sample Testing
ISO 3 Steps
49. 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.
Scatter Diagram
Work Authorization System
Phase results are verified and documented
Visionary
50. Used for communication and information distribution on the project - not necessarily a hightech system but what ever is used for project communication on the project. Normally a mixture of technology and non-technology.
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
PMIS
A lead
Work Package