PMP Certification Questions

Communications planning - Determining the information and communications needs of the project stakeholders.

Information Distribution - Making needed information available  to project stakeholders in a timely manner.

Performance Reporting - Collecting and distributing performance information. This includes status reporting, progress measurement, and forecasting.

Manage Stakeholders - Managing communications to satisfy the requirements of and resolve issues with project stakeholders.

This section identifies and describes the five Project Management Process Groups required for any project. These five process Groups have clear dependencies and are performed in the same sequence on each project.

The five Process Groups are :

Initiating  Process Group - Defines and authorizes the project or a project phase

Planning Process Group - Defines and refines objectives, and plans the course of action required to attain the objectives and scope that the project was undertaken to address.

Executing Process Group - Integrates people and other resources to carry out the project management plan for the project

Monitoring and Controlling process Group - Regularly measures and monitors progress to identify variances from the project management plan so that corrective action can be taken when necessary to meet project objectives.

Closing Process Group - Formalizes acceptance of the product, service or result and brings the project or a project phase to an orderly end.

I. Inputs

• Contract (when applicable)


• Project statement of work


• Enterprise environmental factors


• Organizational process assets

II. Tools and Techniques

• Project selection methods


• Project management methodology


• Project management information system


• Expert Judgment

III. Outputs

         1. Project charter

I. Inputs

• Work performance information


• Performance measurements


• Forecasted completion


• Quality control measurements


• Project management plan

                - Performance measurement baseline

• Approved change requests


• Deliverables

II. Tools and Techniques

• Information presentation tools


• Performance information gathering and compilation


• Status review meetings


• Time reporting systems


• Cost reporting systems

III. Outputs

• Performance reports


• Forecasts


• Requested changes


• Recommended corrective actions


• Organizational process assets (updates)

I. Inputs

• Project scope statement


• Work breakdown structure


• WBS dictionary


• Activity cost estimates


• Activity cost estimate supporting detail


• Project schedule 


• Resource calendars 


• Contract


• Cost management plan

II. Tools and Techniques

• Cost aggregation


• Reserve analysis


• Parametric estimating 


• Funding limit reconciliation

III. Outputs

• Cost baseline 


• Project funding requirements 


• Cost management plan (updates)


• Requested changes

I. Inputs

• Enterprise environmental factors


• Organizational process assets 


• Project scope statement


• Work breakdown structure


• WBS dictionary 


• Project management plan

             - Schedule management plan

             - Staffing management plan

             - Risk register

II. Tools and Techniques

• Analogous estimating


• Determine resource cost rates


• Bottom-up estimating


• Parametric estimating


• Project management software


• Vendor bid analysis


• Reserve analysis


• Cost of quality

III. Outputs

• Activity cost estimates 


• Activity cost estimate supporting detail 


• Requested changes


• Cost management plan (updates)

I. Inputs

• Project management plan


• Work performance information


• Rejected Change requests

II. Tools and Techniques

• Project management methodology


• Project management information system


• Earned value technique


• Expert Judgment

III. Outputs

• Recommended corrective actions


• Recommended preventive actions


• Forecasts


• Recommended defect repair


• Requested changes 

I. Inputs

• Enterprise environmental factors


• Organizational process assets


• Activity list


• Activity attributes


• Resource availability


• Project management plan

II. Tools and Techniques

• Expert Judgment


• Alternatives analysis


• Published estimating data


• Project management software


• Bottom-up estimating

III. Outputs

• Activity resource requirements


• Activity atributes (updates)


• Resource breakdown structure


• Resource calendars (updates)


• Requested changes