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PMP: Project Management Professional

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1. A planning technique which progressively details the work as information becomes firm - and allows for less detail in later project phase where uncertainty is greater is called






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. Deals with the known Unkowns and is the Project Plan






6. Customer Satisfaction - Prevention over inspection - Continous Improvement - Management Responsibility






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






8. Process of identifying and documenting project roles - responsibilities - and required skills reporting relationship - and creating a staffing managment plan






9. 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






10. The Process of determing which risk may affect the project and documents their characteristics






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






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






13. 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






14. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on thier level of authority and their level of concern regarding the project outcomes






15. Modern quality philosophy that states that approx 99.999% of the everything a company creates or processes it executes are error-free






16. 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.






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. Quality philosophy that focus on proactive attitude toward quality with a detail toward statistical analysis to document improvement






23. Difference between internal and external risk






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






25. 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






26. One advantages of sensitivity analysis is?






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase and document initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholders needs and expectations






39. Commuincation within the project






40. Communication with peers






41. Displays a breakdown by resource type accross an organization. This breakdown makes it possible to view where resources are being used regardless of organizational group or division they are in. Can include non-H.R. resources as well as personnel






42. 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






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






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






45. 3 main components of the communication model






46. Any numbering system used to uniquely identify each component of the work breakdown structure






47. Type of grid that groups the stakeholders based on their level of authority and their active involvement in the project






48. 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)






49. 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






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