You Will Learn How To
- Prepare to pass the PMP® exam
- Navigate the process groups and knowledge areas of the PMBOK® Guide — Fourth Edition
- Identify and map the inputs and outputs of the PMBOK® Guide processes
- Align your project management knowledge with PMBOK® Guide terminology and definitions
- Analyze PMBOK® Guide tools and techniques essential for PMP® exam success
- Create a personalized plan for self-study to focus your efforts after the course
Course Benefits
The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP)
® credential is recognized as the universal standard of the profession. In this course, you gain skills to help you prepare for the PMP
® exam. Through practice exams, workshops and overnight study, you learn essential
PMBOK® Guide terminology, tools and techniques.
This course features extended class hours, providing you with the 35 contact hours/PDUs you need to take the PMP® exam.
Who Should Attend
Experienced project managers who plan to take the PMP
® exam. Participants should be aware of exam eligibility criteria established by the PMI
®.
Workshop Course
Through a series of individual practice workshops and simulated exams, you build a personalized study plan to ensure your exam preparedness. Workshops include:
- Taking daily PMP®-style practice exams and cross-referencing answers to PMBOK® Guide
- Speaking the PMBOK® Guide language
- Charting Input-Process-Output (IPO) diagrams
- Creating a matrix to map PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas and process groups
- Developing a personalized exam preparation plan and study guide
Course 276 Contents
Introduction to the PMBOK® Guide
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide — Fourth Edition)
- Key project management terms and the project life cycle
- Identifying External Environmental Factors (EEFs) and Organizational Process Areas (OPAs)
- Organizational structure and influences
Mapping the interrelationships of knowledge areas to process groups
- Outlining the five process groups
- Defining the nine knowledge areas
Project Integration and Scope Management
Identifying and integrating processes and activities
- Identifying a new project, business case and strategic plans
- Defining and coordinating all subsidiary plans
- Change control and configuration management
Defining, verifying and controlling the scope
- Facilitating requirements gathering using interviews, workshops, group creativity and decision-making techniques
- Requirements changes and traceability matrices
- Determining scope through product analysis and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)
- Creating the WBS through decomposition
- Setting the scope baseline and analyzing variances
Project Time and Cost Management
Time management
- Defining and sequencing activities
- Estimating activity resources and durations with analogous, parametric and three-point techniques
- Developing the schedule using PDM, ADM and CDM diagrams
Determining the cost baseline and applying Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Identifying costs and calculating performance baseline
- Assessing EVM key dimensions, variances and indices
- Forecasting with EVM
- Performance reporting
Project Quality Management
Implementing systems for quality
- Preventing nonconformance through Cost of Quality (CoQ)
- Performing continuous improvements
Tools and techniques to study
- Planning for quality using statistical tools
- Implementing quality metrics and audits
Project Human Resource, Communication and Procurement Management
Developing the plan and acquiring the team
- Creating hierarchical and matrix charts (RAM & RACI)
- Developing the team
- Reward and recognition
- Motivational theories
- Conflict resolution techniques
Managing the stakeholders through communication
- Analyzing stakeholders and their expectations
- Distributing information with communication models
- Applying communication theory and the levels of power
Procurement management
- Choosing contract types
- Performing make-or-buy analysis
- Formally accepting the product and closing the project or phase
Project Risk Management
Assessing project risks
- Identifying risks and risk awareness
- Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
- Evaluating Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
Exam-relevant tools and techniques
- Developing threat/opportunity response strategies
- Reassessing and controlling risks
Planning for the Exam
Preparing for test day
- Gaining insight into the exam process
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Conquering exam apprehension
Personalizing your study plan
- Identifying your strengths and weaknesses
- Designing a plan that works for you
- Incorporating study tips for best results
- Optimizing your study time and focus
Professional Responsibility and Ethics
- The PMI® Code of Professional Conduct
- Balancing the interests of stakeholders
- Doing the right thing at the right time
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