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PMP: Project Management Professional

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






2. 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.






3. The process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller more managable components






4. 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






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






6. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






7. 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.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. Tool you can use initially in a project to evaluate what could potentially cause defects. You can use it during the project to review symptoms to determine the real problem (continue to ask questions until the root cause is determine)






12. Factors that limits project options such as the number of people available - amount of time or money available to finish the job or other resources or assest issues






13. Amount of time that an activity can slip or be delayed without delaying the finish date of the project (or activity or published project completion date)






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






15. What the project consist of - What is involved to create the project - What it is expected to do when complete ( to avoid confusion) What is the ? What are the elements






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






17. 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






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






19. Proactive stance to development - one that makes improvement throughout a process






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






21. A milestone has a ______duration






22. Herzberg theory on motivation - basically what drives us to do things






23. Practice of providing more than what the customer request






24. 1 Has a specific purpose 2. Creates specifi results 3 Has a definite start and finish dates 4. Is temporary 5. Could be progressively elaborated






25. Conflict Solution where there is an effort in which attempts are made to work out the actual problem. It is the best type of conflict resolution






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






27. 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.






28. Estimate is usually a total time or cost estimate that has no significant detail. Info can be created quickly - lack detail






29. 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.






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






31. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






33. Deals with how we are effeiciently using our money






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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






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






39. Model describing classes of stakeholders based on thier power - urgency and legitmacy






40. 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)






41. Delphi Technique Interviewing






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






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






44. The consequences (good or bad) or the amount at stake if something does occur






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






46. What is the output of Identify Risk?






47. 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






48. Type of power that comes from senior Mgmt at a company authorizing you to be a P.M. and whatever authority comes with that.






49. 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






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







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