Book description
Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit:
Ace your preparation for the skills measured by the updated PMP Exam, aligned with the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fifth Edition. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam task. Then, reinforce what you’ve learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This guide is designed to help make the most of your study time.
Maximize your performance on the exam by mastering these tasks:
Initiating the project
Planning the project
Executing the project
Monitoring and controlling the project
Closing the project
Practice Tests
Assess your skills with practice tests on CD. You can work
through hundreds of questions using multiple testing modes to meet
your specific learning needs. You get detailed explanations for
right and wrong answers—including a customized learning path
that describes how and where to focus your studies.
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title,
instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the
ebook.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Preparing for the exam
- 1. Understanding foundational concepts of project management
-
2. Integration management
- What is project integration management?
- Develop Project Charter
- Develop Project Management Plan
- Direct and Manage Project Work
- Monitor and Control Project Work
- Perform Integrated Change Control
- Close Project or Phase
- Exercises
- Chapter summary
- Chapter review
- Answers
- 3. Scope management
-
4. Time management
- What is project time management?
- Plan Schedule Management
- Define Activities
- Sequence Activities
- Estimate Activity Resources
- Estimate Activity Durations
-
Develop Schedule
-
Inputs
- Schedule management plan
- Activity list
- Activity attributes
- Project schedule network diagrams
- Activity resource requirements
- Resource calendars
- Activity durations estimates
- Project scope statement
- Risk register
- Project staff assignments
- Resource breakdown structure
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
- Tools and techniques
- Outputs
-
Inputs
- Control Schedule
- Exercises
- Chapter summary
- Chapter review
- Answers
- 5. Cost management
- 6. Quality management
- 7. Human resource management
- 8. Communications management
-
9. Risk management
- What is project risk management?
- Plan Risk Management
-
Identify Risks
-
Inputs
- Risk management plan
- Cost management plan
- Schedule management plan
- Quality management plan
- Human resource management plan
- Scope baseline
- Activity cost estimates
- Activity duration estimates
- Stakeholder register
- Project documents
- Procurement documents
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
- Tools and techniques
- Outputs
-
Inputs
- Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Plan Risk Responses
- Control Risks
- Exercises
- Chapter summary
- Chapter review
- Answers
- 10. Procurement management
- 11. Stakeholder management
- 12. Ethics and professional conduct
- A. Glossary
- B. About the author
- Index
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: PMP® Training Kit
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735669857
You might also like
book
CompTIA® Security+™ SY0-401 Exam Cram, Fourth Edition
The Publisher regrets that the CD/DVD content for this title cannot be made available Online. CompTIA® …
book
Multimodality
This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full …
book
PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals
Real-world project management tools and techniques you can start using today! IT professionals are often faced …
book
Passing the PMP® Exam: How to Take It and Pass It
This book uses the PMBOK Guide, Third Edition, so that all information is up to date …