execution flashcard

1
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Test used to measure Individual skills

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Skill Assesment

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2
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Can problem solving be used to optimize?

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No, it is for issues

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Steps for effective meetings

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  1. Prep and distribute agenda 2. Ensure that meets start and end at the published time 3. ensure to invite appropiate participants 4. stay on topic 5. Manage Expectations– Issues and Conflicts during the meet 6. Record all actions
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4
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What is product review meeting?

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  1. Emerging practice to review what has been executed so far with the relevant stakeholder 2. Can be with external or Internal
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5
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This type of diagram shows how many results where generated by each identified cause– but it does not have branches

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Paretto

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What INPUTs are necessary to execute risk plan

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  1. Plan 2. Risk Register and Report
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If you are a new PM. what would you choose to see the technology used for collaborating with others in the project? Options A) Project Mgmnt Plan B) Stakeholder Engagment Plan

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A. because the engagment plan identifies the strategies and actions required to promote the productive involvment of stakeholders.

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Type of unprocessed and out-of-context data

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Work performance data

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9
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What is included in the risk register? (4)

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  1. Risk owner
  2. agreed responses
  3. contingency plan triggers
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What are the outputs of quality management process?

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Quality reports Test and evaluation documents

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Test used to measure project team skills

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Team performance assesment

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12
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Can social media be used as a platform for project communication

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Yes. Although some companies may not allow it

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13
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When selecting vendors…. Who has higher level of input? Procurement manager with past experience projects. reliability scores and contract dealings vs The project team scores with high Technical scores Why ?

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Procurement…. Because you need to evaluate more than just technical…. Expert judgment can be used when selecting partners

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14
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This type of diagram breakes causes for problems into descrete branches to help you id the Root cause

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Why-why or Ishikawa or fishbone

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Cause and effect…. Same as Fishbone …or why-why

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what is Ishikawa diagram?

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16
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How to assess personal prefernces?

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With Interviews… ONE on ONE

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_____ IS A TECHNIQUE OF MANAGE QUALITY WHEREBY A PERSON FOLLOWS CERTAIN TECHNICAL GUIDELINES THAT MAY BE APPLIED DURING THE DESIGN OF A PRODUCT FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF A SPECIFIC ASPECT OF THE DESIGN

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DESIGN FOR X

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18
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This is an output of control quality. it is used to analyze and evaluate the quality of the process and whether they meet the standards

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Quality control messurements

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19
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What is Team Assesment?

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support development team process may provide overall strengths and weakness of the team.

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Is management reserve included in cost baseline?

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No. but it is part of the overal project budget

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21
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Document that contains the skills or required certifications for the team members.

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Resource breakdown structure

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Estatus of deliverables– implementation status for CR– forecast estimates to complete– and typically not shared with stakeholders

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Work performance information

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What are the input of quality management process?

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  1. Quality Metrics 2. Quality Control Measurements 3. Risk Report
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24
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What type of diagram? Is usefull to determine if ressults are accurate and precise?

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Control chart

25
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Document output of acquire resource process that is also updated in develop and manage team processes?

A

Project Team Assignments

26
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What are ability tests? And What does not provide

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provides insights into individual competencies NOT preference and aspirations

27
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Describe Tornado diagram

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bar chart for sensitivity analysis compares the importance (relative) of different variables

Determines which risk has the most impact

28
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Document that describes how project or product attribute and how it is verified by quality control process

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Quality metrics

29
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What tools/techniques are accepted to IMPLEMENT risk plan

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  1. Interpersonal – Influence 2. Data analysis – Exp judgment meets PIMs
30
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Is Control resources an execution activity or monitoring/controling one?

A

Execution

31
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What type of diagram? Determines if process is stable?

A

Control chart

32
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Describe collocation

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gather project team in the same physical location

33
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Is contingency reserve included in cost baseline?

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Yes

34
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Document output of acquire resource process that is an input for CONTROL resources

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Physical resource assignments

35
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Informaiton crafted specifically for stakeholders as identified in the comm plan

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Work performance reports.

36
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What is Manage Quality process?

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  1. Translates quality managment plan into executable activities 2. Increases probability of meeting quality objectives 3. Helps you to identify ineffective processes and causes of poor quality by using data and results of control quality
37
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Single tools for control quality

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stat sampling check list control charts Testing product evaluation

38
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What are the differences and similarities between resource leveling and resource smoothing?

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Leveling changes date while smoothing does not

Leveling> is used when limits on the availability of resources are paramount. It simply answers the question ‘With the resources available, when will the work be finished?’.

Smoothing> The objective is to complete the work by the required date while avoiding peaks and troughs of resource demand. A smoothed resource profile will be achieved by delaying some work. This will remove some flexibility from the schedule and its ability to deal with unavoidable delays, but the advantage is usually a more efficient and cost-effective use of resources.

39
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Displays RAW observations and measurements identified during project work

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Work performance data

40
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In which process do I determine if the quality management plan is effective?

A

Manage Quality

41
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What type of diagram? “graph that tracks the relationship between 2 variables”

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scatter diagram

42
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What is the key benefit of stakeholder management process?

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allows to increase support and minimize the resistance of stakeholders. Therefore increases the probability of success

43
Q

If you are having conflict with your team in addition to having issues controlling your temper. What do you need to do first

A

Develop emotional intelligence

44
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Which document has the risk response

A

Risk register

45
Q

What document contains nontechnical requirements with contractual and legal implications such as intellectual and property rights among others.

What document should you use if you have not selected the vendor

A

Requirement Documentation or PSOW Contract

For #2 Requirement Documentation.

*** You can not have a contract without a vendor selected.

46
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What is the order of things in the conduct of the procurement proccess.

  • PSOW or contract
  • BIDDING
  • REQUIREMENTS
  • SELECTIONS
A
  1. Requirements
  2. Bidding
  3. Selections
  4. Contract.
47
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What process obtains seller responses, selects a seller and awards a contract?

A

Manage procurements

48
Q

Can the PM sing legal agreements?

A

No. needs to be an authorized signer.

49
Q

Nominal dollars = ??

Contrary to?

A

Actual dollars

Net present value.

50
Q

EAC Formula based on BAC

Variables are

AC, BAC, EV, CPI, SPI

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EAC = AC + (BAC - EV) / (CPI*SPI)

51
Q

What is Formula #1 To calculate Earned value

EV = ?

From AC and CPI

A

EV =AC X CPI

52
Q

COST VARIANCE FORMULA GIVEN

CV, EV, AC

A

CV = EV - AC

53
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EAC FORMULA

GIVEN EAC, BAC, CPI

WHERE WOULD THIS BE USED?

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EAC = BAC / CPI

* RE-ESTIMATE BUDGET.

54
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ESTIMATED TO COMPLETE FORMULA GIVEN

EAC, AC

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ETC = EAC - AC

55
Q

if you are the pm,

Between building the RACI for your engineers and Conducting a team / individual assessments what goes first.

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Building a RACI since the assessments are part of developing while RACI is part of acquiring. RACI can be updated there.

56
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In which process do you conduct the LESSON LEARNED?

In which management group is this?

A

Manage project knowledge

  1. In execution
57
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true or false

Critical path can be fast tracked

A

True.

58
Q

In an Agile project,

How do you best manage quality?

  • A. Project retrospectives*
  • B. Quality Audits*
A

Project retrospectives.

59
Q

Which of the following type of questions ilustrates the active listening skill

a. Thank you for bringing that up. Good catch
b. When you said you could not tell if the app was doing anything, Did you mean that the page took too long to respond to your click?
c. It sounds like you are looking for the page transition in a loading animation to show that the system is working on it, Am I ok?

A

c.

Needs to be a Yes/No question