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Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam


Course 2765 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
  • Analyse PMBOK® Guide tools and techniques essential for PMP® exam success
  • Create a personalised plan for self-study to focus your efforts after the course

Course Benefits

The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential is recognised 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 personalised 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 personalised exam preparation plan and study guide

Course Content

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 Organisational Process Areas (OPAs)
  • Organisational 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 analysing 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 techiques 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

  • Analysing 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

Personalising your study plan

  • Identifying your strengths and weaknesses
  • Designing a plan that works for you
  • Incorporating study tips for best results
  • Optimising 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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Course Dates

14-18 JunLondon enrol
22-26 NovLondon enrol

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