PMP Course Description

Exam Preparation

  • What to expect
  • Exam Environment
  • Learning Strategies
  • Passing Strategies

Project Management Framework

  • Introduction to the PMBOK
  • Organizational Structures
  • Project Management Roles
  • Overview of Projects

Project Integration Management

  • Project Management Framework
  • Project Integration Management Process
  • Project Plan Development
  • Project Manager Skills
  • Project Charter
  • Project Sponsors
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Professional Responsibility (Ethics)

  • Ensuring Integrity and Professionalism
  • Project Management Knowledge Base
  • Enhancing Individual Competence
  • Balancing Stakeholder Interests
  • Interactions with Team Members and Stakeholders
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Scope Management

  • Project Scope Management Processes
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Project Planning and Cost Controls
  • Statement of Work (SOW)
  • Customer Approvals and Reviews
  • Scope Change Control
  • Project Management Offices
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Time Management

  • Project Time Management Processes
  • Activity List
  • Project Network Diagram Methods
  • Duration Estimating Methods
  • Critical Path
  • Pert
  • Schedule Development
  • Crashing
  • Fast Tracking
  • Resource Allocation and Leveling
  • Slack/Float
  • Variance Management and Earned Value
  • Schedule Control
  • Dependencies
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Cost Management

  • Project Cost Management Processes
  • Resource Requirements
  • Cost Estimating Methods
  • Cost Budgeting
  • Types of Costs
  • Budgets
  • Contingency/Management Reserve Funds
  • Earned Value Concepts
  • Earned Value Analysis and Management Reporting
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Quality Management

  • Project Quality Management Processes
  • Overview of Quality Concepts
  • Deming/Juran/Crosby
  • Quality Planning /Assurance/Control
  • ISO Standards
  • PDCA Model
  • Cost of Quality
  • Quality Control Systems
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Flowcharting/Control Charts
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Human Resource Management

  • Project Human resource Management Processes
  • RAM (Responsibility Assignment Matrix)
  • Motivational Theories
  • Conflict Management Methods
  • Types of Power
  • Types of Organizational Structures
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Managing Change Techniques
  • Performance Evaluations
  • Leadership Styles and Assessments
  • Project Team Building Exercise
  • Project Manager Assessments
  • Project Manager Successful Skills
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Communications Management

  • Project Communications Management Processes
  • Communications Model
  • Types of Communication
  • Project Manager Communications
  • Effective Team Communications and Exercises
  • Management Styles and Skills
  • Documentation/Archives
  • Performance Reporting
  • Status and Functional Reporting
  • Lessons Learned
  • War Room Communications and Presentations
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Question

Project Risk Management

  • Project Risk Management Processes
  • Risk Defined
  • Types of Risk
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Identification
  • Sources of Risk
  • Risk Quantitative Analysis
  • Risk Qualitative Analysis
  • Risk Response Strategies
  • Prioritizing Risk
  • Contingency Planning
  • Workarounds
  • Expected Value
  • Decision Trees
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions

Project Procurement Management

  • Project Procurement Management Processes
  • Make / Buy Decisions
  • Elements of a Contract
  • Contract Types
  • Spectrum of Risk
  • Contract Management
  • Purchasing Cycle
  • Acquisition Process
  • Types of Specifications
  • Negotiations
  • Contract Administration
  • Statement of Work / Contracts
  • Proposals
  • Templates
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Sample Exam Questions