Course Description
The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP) certification has become the universal standard for the profession. The PMP certification is preferred and even required by many organizations looking for project managers. In the PMP Project Management Professional Exam Prep Training course, you’ll gain the essential preparation needed to pass the PMP and CAPM exams. Concentrating on exam content from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (PMBOK Guide) - Sixth Edition and other sources, the PMP Project Management Professional Exam Prep Training course includes a wide variety of learning tools, practice questions, study aids, and post-learning resources all using Project Management Institute (PMI) terminology.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of the PMP Project Management Professional Exam Prep Training, you will be able to:
• Understand the PMP® application process
• Understand the PMBOK® Guide structure
• Learn the Five Project Management Process Groups
• Learn the Ten Project Management Knowledge Areas
• Learn the 49 processes, and their association with the knowledge areas and process groups
• Review the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs for all 49 processes
• Improve your exam-taking techniques through multiple PMP®-style practice exams
• Create your own plan for self-study after this course
Agenda
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition)
• Key terms and the project life cycle
• Identifying Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs) and Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
• Organizational structure and influences
• Mapping the interrelationships of the ten knowledge areas to the five process groups
Project Integration and Scope Management
Identifying and integrating processes and activities
• Identifying a new project, business case and strategy
• Defining and coordinating all subsidiary plans
• Change-control and configuration management
Defining, validating and controlling the scope
• Facilitating requirements-gathering using interviews, workshops 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 with 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, Communications and Stakeholder Management
Developing the plan and acquiring the team
• Creating hierarchical and matrix charts (RAM & RACI)
• Developing the team: team building, Tuckman model, recognition and rewards
• Motivational theories and conflict resolution techniques
Efficiently communicating with stakeholders
• Distributing information with communication models
• Applying communication theory and the levels of power
Managing stakeholder engagements
• Identifying and analyzing stakeholders and their expectations
• Increasing support and minimizing resistance
Project Risk and Procurement Management
Assessing project risks
• Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
• Evaluating Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
Exam-relevant tools and techniques
• Developing threat/opportunity response strategies
• Reassessing and controlling risks
Procurement management
• Performing make-or-buy analysis
• Formally accepting the product and closing the project
Planning for the Exam
Preparing for test day
• Applying proven tips for exam success
• Conquering exam apprehension
Personalizing your study plan
• Identifying your strengths and weaknesses
• Optimizing your study time and focus
Professional Responsibility and Ethics
• The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• Balancing the interest of all stakeholders