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PMP: Project Management Professional

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Conflict Solution that entails considering insights and views from a variety of sources and leads to consensus management which in turn leads to commitment






2. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. Process of improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project team






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






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






10. Process of Confirming human resources availibilty and obtaining the team necessary to complete project assignments






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






12. From the Buyers perspective the riskiest form of contract is






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






14. 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






15. Delphi Technique Interviewing






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






22. What is the output of Identify Risk?






23. Communication that is on record such as as newsletter and annual report






24. A cumulative histogram you can use to see where the key problems lie. You can see what is causing the most frequency of problems plus a cumulative percentage of the problem






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






26. 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






27. dministrative closure for the feasibility phase of a project requires that ________.






28. 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)






29. 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






30. Best form power to use. Someone receives a benefit for doing something that is needed






31. Putting more resources on the Critical Path activites. Usually increases cost but minimal risk exposure






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. What is the number source of conflict?






36. Conflict Solution where the PM ignores the problem and hopes it either fixes itself or disappears






37. 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






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






39. Type of communication method sent to a specific recipient who needs to know the information - This method ensures that the communication is distributed but does not certify that it actually reached or was understood by the intended audience Includes






40. 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






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






42. Communication that is not on the record






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






44. 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






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






46. When Activity A starts Activity B can starts






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






48. One of the biggest potential problems facing a project team member in a strong matrix is....






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






50. 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