PMP Exam Preparation
Course Credits
Field of Study: Management Advisory Services
Course CPE: 18
Course PDUs: 15.0
Course CEUs: 1.5
Course Synopsis
Beyond academic credentials, certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) as a project management professional (PMP®) shows the world that you've mastered essential project management skills and knowledge. To earn PMI's PMP® credential, you must demonstrate the required "long-term commitment" to project management professionalism and pass a rigorous, 200-question exam covering the five project management processes and nine knowledge areas in PMI's project management body of knowledge (PMBOK®).
Improve your chances of passing the grueling PMP® certification exam on the first try with this well-proven and successful course. You'll find out exactly what components of your project management background will be tested so you know where to focus your attention during the vital weeks of preparation. You'll become familiar with the makeup and format of the exam itself, thanks to ESI's exclusive PMP® Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, featuring hundreds of multiple-choice questions and fully referenced answers. Plus, you'll get a chance to explore the rationale behind each answer with your instructor, a certified PMP.
In addition to ESI's PMP® Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide, you'll take home an extensive collection of exam-preparation study materials, including PMI's A Guide to the PMBOK® and ESI's popular and unique PMP® Challenge! - 600 questions on spiral-bound, fully tabbed flashcards. Learn from the project management experts at ESI how to make the most of your limited study time.
Course Topics
- Project Management Process Groups
- Initiating processes
- Planning processes
- Controlling processes
- Executing processes
- Closing processes
- Project Integration Management
- Develop project charter
- Develop project management plan
- Direct and manage project execution
- Monitor and control project work
- Perform integrated change control
- Close project or phase
- Other project management concepts
- Project Scope Management
- Collect requirements
- Define scope
- Create WBS
- Verify scope
- Control scope
- Project Time Management
- Define activities
- Sequence activities
- Estimate activity resources
- Schedule development
- Control schedule
- Project Cost Management
- Estimate cost
- Determine budget
- Control costs
- Project Quality Management
- Plan quality
- Perform quality assurance
- Perform quality control
- Other key quality topics
- Project Human Resources Management
- Develop human resource plan
- Acquire project team
- Develop project team
- Manage project team
- Project Communications Management
- Identify stakeholders
- Plan communications
- Distribute information
- Manage stakeholder expectations
- Report performance
- Other communications management issues
- Project Risk Management
- Plan risk management
- Identify risk
- Perform qualitative analysis
- Perform quantitative analysis
- Plan risk responses
- Monitor and control risk
- Project Procurement Management
- Plan procurements
- Conduct procurements
- Administer procurements
- Close procurements
- Professional Responsibility
- Ensuring individual integrity and professionalism
- Contributing to the project management knowledge base
- Enhancing individual competence
- Balancing stakeholders' interests Interacting in a professional and cooperative manner
- Studying For and Taking the Exam