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Pairs of Easily Confused Terms

w to Make Best Use of the List

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47 Pairs of Easily
Confused Terms
By understanding the differences
and similarities between these pairs
of terms, Aspirants will have a better
grasp of the knowledge of the

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PMBOK® Guide and project
management:

Run Chart vs Control Chart

ROM vs Definitive Estimates
Analogous Estimating vs
Parametric Estimating
Project Risk Management: Avoid
vs Mitigate
Project Risk Management:
Enhance vs Exploit
Contingency Plan vs Fallback
Plan
Nominal Group Technique vs
Brainstorming
EEF vs OPA
Project vs Operation
Push vs Pull Communication
Qualitative vs Quantitative
Analysis
Develop vs Manage Project
Team
Change Control vs Configuration
Control
Project Expeditor vs Project
Coordinator
Project Requirements vs Project
Scope

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Project Statement of Work vs

Project Charter
Project Statement of Work vs
Business Case
Create WBS vs Decomposition
RACI: Responsible vs
Accountable
RACI vs RAM

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Project Calendar vs Resource
Calendar
Resource Leveling vs Resource
Smoothing
Functional vs Projectized vs
Matrix Organizations
Project Life Cycle vs Product Life
Cycle
Discrete Effort vs Apportioned
Effort vs Level of Effort
Project Team vs Project
Management Team
Contract Types
Project Quality vs Product
Quality
Free Float vs Total Float
Fallback vs Workaround
Cost Baseline vs Budget
Control Limit vs Specification
Limit
Crashing vs Fast Tracking
Common Cause vs Special Cause
Residual Risk vs Secondary Risk
Project Scope vs Product Scope
Cost of Conformance vs Cost of
Non-conformance
Work Package vs Activity
Critical Path Method vs Critical
Chain Method
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Contingency Reserve vs
Management Reserve
Quality Control vs Quality
Assurance
Assumptions vs Constraints vs
Requirements
Corrective vs Preventive Actions
Statement of Work (SOW) vs

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Project Scope Statement
Quality vs Grade
Accuracy vs Precision
Accepted Deliverable vs Verified
Deliverable

How to Make Best

Use of the List
For every pair of easily confused
terms above, there are some
background information on where
(the project management domains)
the terms are located with brief
definitions of each of them. Then a
project example will be used to
illustrate the concept more vividly
(most of the time the project to be
illustrated is the “preparation for the
PMP® Exam” — a project that is
very familiar to Aspirants :P). If
applicable, differentiation and
applicability of the terms in different
scenarios will be further expounded
in the subsequent sections.

During my exam preparation, after

looking at the pair, I would think for a

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while the definitions of the terms

through the sample project. I did not
try to remember the definition word
by word or learn them by heart as
the PMP® Exam is not a test of your
memorization capability — you will
just need to understand the
differences between them. This

HELP
method helps me a lot by reducing
the time and stress on these easily
confused terms.

Even if you do not confuse between

the project management terms, this
list will also serve as a last minute
study notes to test your
understanding of the PMBOK®
Guide / project management
concepts. I sincerely hope that this
will be useful to you!

Wish you PMP® success!

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