Project Management (Complete) PMP® Exam Prep Course (4th Ed) - OnlineThis completely online and self-paced eleven-module project management program builds successful project managers at all levels of the organization. It provides a comprehensive preparation for the PMP® certification exam including exam taking tips, ten comprehensive module quizzes, and two full-length, 200-question practice exams covering the PMBOK® Guide areas of knowledge. NOTE: As of July 1, 2009, the PMP® certification exam will align with the Fourth Edition of the PMBOK® Guide. This course prepares learners who plan to take the updated exam. Receive 35 PDUs/contact hours to qualify to take the PMI Project Management Professional Exam ®. Please note that this is a curriculum of individual course modules. You will need to pass each module exam in order to qualify for a certificate of completion.
This is an asynchronous eLearning program that can be accessed 24/7 from any internet enabled computer. |
Students will be able to:- Understand how enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets affect how projects can be managed
- Explain the five stages of a project life cycle and understand how these stages can overlap in time
- Understand how to create a project management plan with subsidiary plans for each of the knowledge areas and explain how progressive elaboration and integrated change management can keep these documents effective and relevant
- Understand the overlapping nature of project activities and practice Project Integration Management to coordinate the various project management processes
- Understand how a project's various baselines (including scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, procurement, and others) are determined, planned for, and managed
- Understand how to effectively manage human resources and communicate with all stakeholders
- Understand the key methods used to estimate project schedule and cost at the beginning of a project and to forecast cost and schedule variances at any time during the project
- Understand how the project management knowledge contained in the PMBOK® Guide can be used in practice
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Introduction to Project Management- Explain what a project is and how it can advance organizational goals
- Understand the role of the project manager in an organizational setting
- Understand how enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets can affect project management processes
- Explain the concept of a project management office (PMO)
- Explain the relation of projects to sub-projects, programs, and portfolios
- Distinguish between functional and projectized organizations and explain how the structure of the organization can affect project processes and activities
- Understand the role of stakeholders such as the project sponsor in determining general and specific details of the project charter
- Understand the project life cycle and its common trends and patterns
- Define and explain fast tracking
- Identify key characteristics of successful project managers
| - Understand the role of the five process groups: Initiating Process Group, Planning Process Group, Executing Process Group, Monitoring and Controlling Process Group, and Closing Process Group
- Understand the role of the knowledge areas: Project Integration Management, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications Management, Project Risk Management, and Project Procurement Management
- Understand that each of the 42 processes identified by PMI® as being universal to project management can be classified into one knowledge area and one process group
- Understand the overlapping nature of the interaction between the processes and process groups
- Understand the ways in which inputs and outputs of various processes determine the relationship between the processes
- Understand the processes of the Project Integration Management knowledge area
- Understand the inputs, tools and techniques, and the outputs of the various component processes of the Project Integration Management knowledge area
|  | - Understand scope and how to create a project scope statement
- Explain the different methods, tools, and techniques for collecting requirements
- Assess the work that needs to be completed for a project to successfully fulfill its objectives and create a work breakdown structure and WBS dictionary
- Use a requirements traceability matrix to trace project requirements throughout its life cycle
- Understand where scope baselines and performance measurement baselines come from and how they are used to evaluate the success of a project through its life cycle
- Complete project review reports and lead meetings
- Update stakeholders
| - Understand the Project Time Management knowledge area component processes
- Define activities using an activity list, activity attributes, and a milestone list
- Explain various techniques for estimating duration and know when to apply them
- Understand how project activities can be sequenced
- Understand how to estimate the resources required for a project and how limited availability of resources can affect the scheduling of activities
- Understand how to read and create a project schedule network diagram
- Understand schedule network analysis and how it can help to determine the critical path for a project
- Understand how to control a project's schedule by initiating change requests or employing techniques of schedule compression or buffering.
| | - Define cost management and its associated cost management plan
- Explain the various inputs of and methods for estimating activity cost
- Understand how to aggregate activity costs in order to determine budget and both periodic and total project funding requirements
- Understand the cost performance baseline and performance measurement baseline and their importance in earned value management
- Calculate planned value, earned value, actual cost, schedule variance, cost variance, the schedule performance index, and cost performance index
- Understand how baselines, planned value, earned value, and actual cost can be represented in graphic form
- Calculate the budget at completion, estimate at completion, estimate to complete, and the to-complete performance index and use these concepts to forecast the cost requirements of a project
- Identify the warning signs that a project is falling behind schedule or overrunning its budget and explain the various possible responses
- Explain performance-reporting techniques and updates to project documentation
- Understand the various approaches to project selection, including return on investment and internal rate of return
| - Define quality, quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control
- Explain what aspects of quality assurance and quality control need to be decided on and budgeted for in the planning stage
- Explain how the project management team should balance the cost of quality with its benefits
- Distinguish between quality assurance and quality control
- Explain how Perform Quality Assurance identifies ineffective processes and how the process improvement plan allows for their improvement
- Understand how Perform Quality Control uses statistical sampling, inspection, and visual representations of data to identify defects in products or processes
- Understand the similarities and differences among quality tools, and when and why each can be applied in quality management
| | - Understand how staffing is planned for and acquired in an organization
- Understand how internal and external staff will have different management needs
- Understand and manage for constraints and limited availability of human resources
- Understand and apply resource leveling techniques to deal with limited human resources
- Identify and choose between the various techniques for visually representing the roles and responsibilities of individuals, teams, and organizations.
- Understand what makes a successful team and how project managers can assess and develop their teams and individual workers
- Employ effective people management, including how to motivate and manage teams and how to resolve team conflict
- Understand the general approaches to decision-making, and how they might be applied to project scenarios
| - Understand basic communication models and how these models can be applied to project communications management techniques
- Understand the various inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of Project Communications Management activities
- Understand the basics of effective communication in the context of project management
- Identify stakeholders that should be listed in the stakeholder register, conduct stakeholder analysis, and create stakeholder management strategies to maximize positive stakeholder impacts and minimize negative stakeholder impacts
- Understand the importance of the communications management plan
- Conduct communication requirements analysis to determine how communications will be planned for in the communications management plan
- Understand the different methods and technologies of communication, and explain under which circumstances specific methods and technologies are more likely to be successful
- Understand how stakeholder expectations can be managed so that the project maintains its planned performance baselines and satisfies its acceptance criteria
- Understand the conventions of creating performance reports that use variance analysis and forecasting techniques to update stakeholders on the progress of the project
| | - Define risk and explain how it can impact a project
- Understand the components of the risk management plan and risk register and their relationship to the project management plan
- Understand the techniques involved in risk identification and analysis
- Explain how the probability and impact of risk can be assessed and how risk events can be prioritized
- Understand the difference between qualitative risk analysis and quantitative risk analysis and explain when either or both should be used
- Understand how to make project decisions when outcomes are complex and are affected by uncertainty
- Explain how risk planning, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and controlling are related
- Understand the various management responses to positive and negative risks
- Explain the Monitor and Control Risks process and understand that risks must be monitored throughout the project life cycle
| - Define procurement within the context of a project
- Understand the elements of the procurement management plan
- Explain the various roles and responsibilities of buyers and sellers
- Understand the various options for project procurement decisions: make-or-buy decisions, decisions about contract types
- Understand the techniques that contribute to effective project procurement documents
- Identify common criteria for selecting sellers
- Understand the activities involved in administering procurements and ensuring that sellers are on track to complete deliverables that conform to project requirements
- Explain the importance of negotiating for a suitable contract and ensuring that any changes to the procurement requirements are well-documented
- Understand the circumstances under which project procurements can be closed
| | - Understand the structure and requirements of the PMP® Exam.
- Explain and apply the key concepts found in the Project Management Institute's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- Understand ways to improve your performance on the PMP® Exam.
- Review quickly the major areas of knowledge on the PMP® Exam through checklists.
- Begin your preparation for the PMP® Exam with confidence.
This module contains two 200-question PMP® Practice Exams covering the Project Management Institute's standard, A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). The practice exams provide a comprehensive review of the PMBOK® Guide. Learners will also review key strategies for preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Exam.Powered by MindEdge | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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