The ultimate step in PMP® preparation

Certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI)^® as a project management professional (PMP)^® shows the world that you’ve mastered essential project management skills and knowledge. To earn PMI’s PMP^® credential, you must demonstrate the required "long-term commitment" to project management professionalism and pass a rigorous, 200-question exam covering the five project management processes and nine knowledge areas in PMI’s project management body of knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide).

The course is composed of a portfolio of lectures, exercises, games, readings, evening assignments, and intensive practice of model exam questions. This intensive 5-day course is designed to comprehensively prepare you for the PMP^® exam in the most efficient and effective manner. In addition to unique games and activities, there are exercises and techniques designed specifically to increase both learning and knowledge retention, giving students the knowledge they need to pass the exam. 

Please read the Guide to the PMBOK® 4th edition at least once before this course.

COURSE CONTENTS 

1. Project Integration Management
a. Develop project charter
b. Develop preliminary project scope statement
c. Develop project management plan
d. Direct and manage project execution
e. Monitor and control project work
f. Integrated change control
g. Close project

2. Project Scope Management
a. Scope planning
b. Scope definition
c. Create WBS
d. Scope Verification
e. Scope control

3. Project Quality Management
a. Quality planning
b. Perform quality assurance (QA)
c. Perform quality control (QC)

4. Project Time Management
a. Activity definition
b. Activity sequencing
c. Activity resource estimating
d. Activity duration estimating
e. Schedule development
f. Schedule control

5. Project Cost Management
a. Cost estimating
b. Cost budgeting
c. Cost control
d. Earned value

6. Project Risk Management
a. Planning
b. Identification
c. Qualitative analysis
d. Quantitative analysis
e. Response planning
f. Risk monitoring and control

7. Project Human Resource ¬Management
a. Human resource planning
b. Acquire project team
c. Develop project team
d. Manage project team

8. Project Procurement ¬Management
a. Plan purchases and acquisitions
b. Plan contracting
c. Request seller responses
d. Select sellers
e. Contract administration
f. Contract closure

9. Project Communications ¬Management
a. Communications planning
b. Information distribution
c. Performance reporting
d. Manage stakeholders

10. Professional Responsibility
a. Ensuring individual integrity and -professionalism
b. Contributing to the project management knowledge base
c. Enhancing individual competence
d. Balancing stakeholders’ interests
e. Interacting in a professional and -cooperative manner

11. Project Management Context, Framework, Processes

12. PMP^® Examination tips, tricks, and strategy

 

CLASS MATERIALS

- PMBOK^® Guide, 4th Edition
- Course binder which includes slides, solutions, to exercises, and reference notes. 
- PMP^® Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide.
- PMP^® Challenge! — 600 questions on spiral-bound, fully tabbed flashcards.
- Two PMP^® mock-up exams (200 questions each).