What is the formula to calculate the Present Value?

Saturday, October 29, 2011

PV= FV / (1+i)ⁿ
Where PV is Present Value, FV is Future Value, i is interest, n is number of years

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What are the 3 broad categories of Contract?

Thursday, October 27, 2011

1. Fixed Price
2. Time and Material
3. Cost Reimbursable

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What are the various Communication Methods?

1. Interactive
2. Push
3. Pull

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How much time do Project manager spend on communicating?

90%

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What does Herzberg's Theory says?

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Hygiene factors (Working conditions, Salary, Personal life) are not sufficient to motivate but Motivating Agents

(Responsibility, Self-actualization)

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What are the 3 needs of people according to David McClelland's Theory of Needs (or Acquired Needs Theory)?

1. Need for Achievement
2. Need for Affiliation
3. Need for Power

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What is Maslow's Hierarchy of needs ?

From the lowest to highest in his pyramid is,Physiological, Safety, social, Esteem, Self-actualization.

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What is McGregor's Theory of X and Y?

Theory X - People are incapable, avoid responsibility, and avoid work whenever possible

Theory Y - People are willing to work without supervision and want to achieve

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What are the different conflict resolution techniques?

Confronting
Compromising
Withdrawal
Smoothing
Collaborating
Forcing

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What is the average percentage of time spent by a project manager in meetings?

50%

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What is the approximate Percentage of non-verbal communication?

55%

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What are the different stages of Team Formation?

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Forming
Stroming
Norming
Performing
Adjourning

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What is RACI?

It is an advanced form of Responsibility Assingment Matrix

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What is the expansion of RACI?

Responsible Accountable Consult Inform

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What are the various Quality Theories ?

Thursday, October 20, 2011

1. 80/20 Principle, defined quality as "fitness for use",developed by Joseph Juran

2. Plan-Do=Check-Act cycle, W.Edwards Deming

3. "Zero defects", defined as "conformance to requirements", Philip Crosby

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What are the different Methods of accuracy Estimates ?

1. Rough Order of Estimate:
Accuracy range = +-50
Done at Initiating Process

2. Budgeted Estimate:
Accuracy range = -10 to +25
Planning Process

3. Definitive Estimate:
Accuracy range = +- 10

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What is Control Account ?

Friday, October 14, 2011

Cost estimation done at higher level in the WBS is called Control accout.

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What is Parametric Estimating ?

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Parametric estimating is the process of using historical data to compare against your project to determine a correlation and thereby a cost estimate for your current project.

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What is NDoc ?

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The NDoc tool will automatically generate documentation for your code using reflection to examine the assembly and using the XML generated from your C# XML comments. XML comments are only available for C#, but there is a Visual Studio .NET Power Toy called VBCommenter which will do something similar for Visual Basic .NET.

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What is Regulator ?

It is a full-featured tool that makes it easy to build and test regular expressions.

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What is CodeSmith?

CodeSmith is a template-based code-generation tool that uses a syntax similar to ASP.NET to generate any type of code or text. Unlike many other code-generation tools, CodeSmith does not require you to subscribe to a particular application design or architecture.

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What are the Economic Models for Project selection ?

Saturday, October 8, 2011

1. Present Value
2. Net Present Value
3. Internal Rate of Return Dynamic Programming
4. Benefit Cost Ratio
5. Payback period

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What are the Costrained Optimization methods?

1. Linear Programming
2. Integer Programming
3. Dynamic Programming
4. Multi-objective programmig

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What are the benifit measurement models?

1. Murder Board(a panel of people who try to shoot down a new project idea)
2. Peer review
3. scornig models
4. Economic models

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What are the project selection Methods ?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

There are 2 project selection methods:
1. Mathematical models(calculation methods)
2. Benefit Measurement methods(decision models)

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What is the formula for Present Value in project management ?

PV = Future Value / (1 + I)^n where I is the interest rate and n is the number of periods.

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What is the formula for Future Value in project management ?

FV = Current Value x (1 + I)^n where I is the interest rate and n is the number of periods.

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What is the formula for ROI in project Management ?

ROI = (Benefit – Cost)/Cost

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What is the 8/80 rule for WBS ?

Monday, October 3, 2011

No task should be less than 8 hours or more than 80 hours.

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What are the 2 types of Project Selection methods?

1. Mathematical models(calculation methods or Constrained Optimization)
2. Benefit Measurement methods(decision models)

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What are the sub management plans in Project Management ?

Scope management plan
Requirement management plan
Schedule management plan
Cost management plan
Quality management plan
Process improvement plan
Human resource plan
Communication management plan
Risk management plan
Procurement management plan

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How many baselines are there in Project management and what are they ?

There are 3 baselines, they are
Schedule baseline
Cost performance baseline and
Scope baseline

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How many process groups are there PMP , what are they?

Initiation
Planning
Execution
Control
Closure

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How many processes are there in Project Management?

There are a total of 42 processes.

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What are the 9 knowledge areas in Project Management?

The type of organizations in decreasing order of Project Manager's authority are -
Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Cost Management
Project Time Management
Project Risk Management
Project Quality Management
Project HR Management
Project Communication Management
Project Procurement Management

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What are the Types of organization ?

The type of organizations in decreasing order of Project Manager's authority are -
1. Projectized
2. Strong Matrix
3. Weak Matrix
4. Functional

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