Practice test review questions Flashcards

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Schedule Performance Index (SPI): 0.85

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Less than 1, indicates the project is behind schedule.

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Cost Performance Index (CPI): 1.15

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Larger than 1, indicates the project is within budget.

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Critical Path has

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No float, slack

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Qualitative Risk Analysis

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Rank risks according to probability and/or impact

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Quantitative risk analysis

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Assigns values to the risk

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Bubble charts

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Tool in performing quantitative risk analysis process and can show the probability, impact and ranking of risk.

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Pareto charts

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Used for quality and not risk.

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Sprint Review

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Customers review the partially finished product and give the team their feedback.

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Sprint planning meeting

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Held to determine what requirements will be met in the next sprint.

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Retrospective

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Conducted to capture the lessons learned from the sprint.

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Risk transfer

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Transferred to another company such as purchasing insurance or hiring a consultant

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Risk Avoidance

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Going down a different path

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Risk Mitigation

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Reduce the probability and/or impact of a risk.

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Risk Acceptance

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Do nothing.

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Project Scope Statement

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Includes a list of all the project deliverables as well as any requirements that should be excluded from the scope.

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When are retrospectives done and what are they for?

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Done after each iteration for the team to inspect and create a plan for improvements to be done in the next iteration.

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Paid programming

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When one programmer writes the code another inspects the code as it’s been written. This leads to codes being inspected in seconds.

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Estimate activity resources

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Will output the resource breakdown structure.

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Earned value management

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A series of formulas that monitor the value of the project as it’s progressing and generally track cost and schedule.

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Sprint Backlog

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Output of the sprint planning meeting, which will outline all work to be done in the next sprint.

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Ishikawa diagram

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Cause-and-effect diagram, used to list the many different probabilities for a projects defect.

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Assumptions analysis

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Involves analyzing assumptions

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Histograms

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Used to show the frequency of defects and inspections are used to see if a deliverable has met it’s requirements

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Forming

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Team is formed, and learn about each other

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Norming
Stop storming, agree on how to conduct work
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Performing
Team actually builds the deliverables
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Storming
When they disagree on how to conduct the work.
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PERT formula
(0+4*R+P)/6
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How long are Agile iterations?
No more than one to four weeks
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What is a RACI matrix?
(Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed) only one person should be held accountable per task in the chart. a simple, effective means for defining project roles and responsibilities
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Metaphor
Using XP to explain designs and create a shared vision between customers and the development team.
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Communication Channels formula
N(N-1)/2