Course Category

• Understand Project Management in an organizational setting
• Explain the concept of a Project Management Office (PMO)
• Distinguish between functional and project-based management
• Understand the project lifecycle and its common pattern
• Define and explain fast tracking

Project Processes

• Understand the main processes involved in project management and what they entail
• Practice ways to use the Internet in Project Management
• Identify a candidate for the role of Project Manager
• Lead a kick-off meeting

Team Work and Managing People

• Understand staffing in the context of an organization and project
• Recruit people for a project
• Depict roles and responsibilities graphically
• Depict people and their time allocated to a project on a resource histogram
• Employ effective people management, including how to motivate, develop, and manage teams and resolve conflicts
• Understand the general approaches to decision-making, and how they might be applied to project scenarios

Project Communications

• Understand communication basics, including effective listening
• Create a communication plan
• Understand performance reporting
• Identify lessons learned
• Discuss corrective action

Project Scoping and Tracking

• Understand and define scope
• Plan a project by phase work breakdown structure
• Track and review a project
• Complete project review reports and lead meetings
• Update stakeholders

Project Time Management

• Understand activities in relation to work breakdown structure and diagramming methods
• Explain project scheduling and estimating, including the techniques of Gantt charting, PERT, and CPM
• Calculate time estimates and the critical path using CPM and PERT
• Understand the importance of collaboration in planning and scheduling and the use of technology to support this

Project Cost Management

• Define cost management broadly, including what is cost baseline
• Understand the various approaches to project selection, including return on investment and internal rate of return
• Explain various ways to estimate and budget for costs
• Distinguish between the various aspects of cost control from earned value to actual cost and estimate to complete
• Label a graph, including what it's depicting about project status, using cost control terms
• Explain performance-reporting techniques

Project Risk Management

• Define risk
• Understand the components of the risk management plan and risk register and its relationship to the project management plan
• Understand the techniques involved in risk identification and analysis
• Explain the interrelationship among risk planning, risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring controlling
• Understand the strategies of risk response planning
• Explain the inputs, techniques, and outputs of risk monitoring and control, and how it fits into the overall monitoring and control process

Project Quality Management

• Define quality, quality planning, quality assurance and quality control
• Distinguish between quality assurance and quality control
• Explain what execution means in terms of quality assurance and quality control, including the use of certain activities such as sampling and inspection
• Understand the similarities and differences among quality tools, and generally when and why each is applied in quality management

Project Procurement Management

• Define procurement within the context of a project
• Understand the elements of the project management plan
• Understand the various phases of contracting, including the techniques associated with selecting sellers

Project Management Practice Examination and Examination Strategies