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Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam

 
Course: 276     Type: Workshop Course     Duration: 5 Days

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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 techinques 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
Related Courses
The PMI R.E.P. logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PMP is a registered certification mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PMBOK® is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PMI is a registered trademark and service mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
  
 
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You receive a copy of the PMBOK® Guide - Fourth Edition and 600 practice exam questions.


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