PMP Project Management Professional Exam Prep Training

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