Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Preparation: Third Edition

Course Specifications
Software: Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Preparation
Course length: 5.0 day(s)

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Course Description
Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management you discovered in the Project Management Fundamentals course, and offers a job-related approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

Course Objective
You will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) to successfully manage projects.

Target Student
This course is designed for experienced project managers who want to increase their project
management skills, apply a standards-based approach to project management, and apply for Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification.

Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following Element K courses or have equivalent knowledge:

Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Initiate a project.
Plan project work.
Develop project schedules, cost estimates, and budgets.
Plan project quality, staffing, and communications.
Analyze project risks.
Plan project procurement.
Execute project work.
Monitor and control project work.
Monitor and control project schedule and costs.
Monitor and control project quality, staffing, and communications.
Monitor and control project risks and contracts.
Close the project.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Initiating a Project
Topic 1A: Apply Project Management Processes
Topic 1B: Create a Project Charter
Topic 1C: Develop a Preliminary Project Scope Statement

Lesson 2: Planning Project Work
Topic 2A: Develop Project Management Plan
Topic 2B: Create a Scope Management Plan
Topic 2C: Create a Scope Statement
Topic 2D: Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Lesson 3: Developing Project Schedules, Cost Estimates, and Budgets
Topic 3A: Create an Activity List
Topic 3B: Create a Project Network Diagram
Topic 3C: Estimate Activity Resources
Topic 3D: Estimate Activity Durations
Topic 3E: Identify the Critical Path
Topic 3F: Develop a Project Schedule
Topic 3G: Estimate Project Costs
Topic 3H: Establish a Cost Baseline

Lesson 4: Planning Project Quality, Staffing, and Communications
Topic 4A: Create a Quality Management Plan
Topic 4B: Document Roles, Responsibilities, and Reporting Relationships
Topic 4C: Acquire Project Team
Topic 4D: Create a Communications Management Plan

Lesson 5: Analyzing Risks and Planning Risk Response
Topic 5A: Create a Risk Management Plan
Topic 5B: Identify Project Risks and Triggers
Topic 5C: Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Topic 5D: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Topic 5E: Develop a Risk Response Plan

Lesson 6: Planning Project Procurement
Topic 6A: Prepare a Contract Statement of Work
Topic 6B: Prepare a Procurement Document

Lesson 7: Executing Project Work
Topic 7A: Direct and Manage Project Execution
Topic 7B: Perform Quality Assurance
Topic 7C: Develop Project Team
Topic 7D: Information Distribution
Topic 7E: Request Seller Responses
Topic 7F: Select Sellers

Lesson 8: Monitoring and Controlling Project Work
Topic 8A: Monitor and Control Project Work
Topic 8B: Manage Changes to Performance Baselines
Topic 8C: Review Deliverables and Work Results
Topic 8D: Control Project Scope

Lesson 9: Monitoring and Controlling Project Schedule and Costs
Topic 9A: Control the Project Schedule
Topic 9B: Control Project Costs

Lesson 10: Monitoring and Controlling Project Quality, Staffing, and Communications
Topic 10A: Perform Quality Control
Topic 10B: Manage Project Team
Topic 10C: Report Project Performance
Topic 10D: Manage Stakeholders

Lesson 11: Monitoring and Controlling Project Risk and Contracts
Topic 11A: Monitor and Control Project Risk
Topic 11B: Administer a Contract

Lesson 12: Closing the Project
Topic 12A: Close a Project
Topic 12B: Close a Contract

Appendix A: PMP Certification Mapping

Appendix B: Certification Lightning Round

Supplemental Lesson PMP¨ Certification Practice Test
Topic 1A: Practice Test

Appendix C: Schedule Management Plan Example

Appendix D: Statement of Work (SOW) Example

Appendix E: Professional and Social Responsibility