Project Management Professional (PMP®) Exam Prep - Course Content

1. The Basic Requirements as Stipulated by PMI®

The Project Management Professional Credential Handbook is comprehensively reviewed in the following major areas:

Eligibility requirements
What experience and education do you require to be eligible to apply to sit the PMP® exam, how do you apply and what costs are involved.

2. Examination Details

This section includes an analysis of the number and type of multiple choice questions you can expect from each of the 10 domains and the topics examined in each of the 5 project management process groups.

3. Preparation Strategies

Prepare yourself
Ensure you have the knowledge and skills to sit the PMP® exam including terminology, essential formulas and techniques.

Plan your exam
Ensure you have sufficient time to study and availability to schedule your PMP® exam.

Study strategy
This includes various study techniques to optimally prepare you for the exam and techniques to use during the exam.

Beyond PMP
Ensures that you fully understand recertification requirements and the resources you have available to further your career.

4. The Nine Knowledge Areas of the PMBOK®

Integration management
Processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the five process groups.

Scope management
Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.

Time management
Processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project.

Cost management
Processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.

Quality management
Processes include all the activities of the performing organisation that determine quality policies, objectives and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.

Human Resource management
Processes required to organise and manage the project team.

Communications management
Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval and ultimate disposition of project information.

Risk management
Processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses and monitoring of the risks throughout the project.

Procurement management
Processes to purchase or acquire the products, services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work.

5. The Five Process Groups of the PMBOK®

Initiation Process Group
Defines and authorises the project or a project phase.

Planning Process Group
Defines and refines objectives, and plans the course of action required to attain the objectives and scope that the project was undertaken to address.

Executing Process Group
Integrates people and other resources to carry out the project management plan for the project.

Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
Regularly measures and monitors progress to identify variances from the project management plan so that corrective action can be taken when necessary to meet project objectives.