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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 power comes from an attitude or presence that a person has and the corresponding type of influence this person has on the team. It could also come from someone who aligns with other people in a powerful posistion at the company or on the team






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






3. The control points of the Sigma proces. Typically the limits are set +/- 3 sigma






4. An after the fact look at what caused a difference between the basline and the actual performance






5. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






6. 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






7. In the area of legal risks the reasons for licensing of projects






8. 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.






9. Considering both development and operating costs when evaluating project alternatives






10. A contigency put into action when a risk reesponse and any backup plans don't work. It is the reactive "wing it" reponse






11. CMMI - 6 SIGMA - LEAN 6 Sigma Quality Function






12. The process of making relevant information availible to project stakeholders as planned






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






14. Form of power is one that project managers must earn on their own.






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. PM and team work to create a complete estimate from the bottom(activity level) up and roll it up to the total estimate. Main advantage - detail accuracy. Main dis ad - can take time to create






22. Techinque of systemically gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information to determine whose interest should be taken into account throughout the project






23. Plan Quality - Perform Quality Assurance - Perform Quality Control






24. Shows a pattern between two variables associated with a process. This helps see a correlation (or lack of) between variable - if it exists






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






26. Type of Mgmt style that drives the direction of the team or team members to accomplish specific activties and goals






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






28. Risk for which insurance can be purchased - thereby transferring the risk for financial benefit to the party accepting the risk






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






30. 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






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






32. Deals with the Unkown Unkowns and are not in the Project Plan Contingency Reserves VS Mgmt Reserves






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






34. Activity A must be completed before Activity B






35. Is a state in which the outcome of process are separate from another






36. 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






37. 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.






38. The amount of time something can be delayed w/o delaying the PUBLISHED finish date






39. Special benefits offered being on a certain project of doing a certain activity Difference between Fringe and Perks






40. Formula use to calculate time or cost. It performs a weighted avg of the pessimistic - optimistic - and realistic estimates.






41. 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






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






43. Strategy defines as approach to increase the support and minimize negative impacts of stakeholders throughout the entire project life cycle






44. Used to track technical performance such as how well something works or schedule or cost performance such as how things were completed on time or budget - respectively






45. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






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






48. Difference between internal and external risk






49. 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.






50. Forecasting methods that uses the assumption that is possible to identify the underlying factors that might influence the variable that is being forcasted