Course Description: This course has been designed to prepare participants to take the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam 2017 edition. This is not an introduction to project management course. This course will review all of the material covered on the exam and provide a large number of practice questions to prepare participants to succeed.
Target Audience: Candidates who are preparing for PMI’s PMP® certification exam. It is recommended a candidate have already achieved their 4,500 or 7,500 required hours of experience prior to taking the course. Additionally, it is strongly recommended student have completed a PMBOK® Guide based project management application course such as LGd’s PM 101 at least 30-days prior to this course and have read the current edition of the PMBOK® Guide.
LGd Advantages
- Our course is the only one that offers a money-back guarantee. If you take our course and follow our method and fail the test we will gladly refund 100% of your tuition. Other courses guarantees simply give you the right to take the course over.
- Participants in our course maintain a 99+% success rate
- Only 35-40 hours of study required to pass the exam. This is less than anyone else.
- Three (3) full days of training, including hundreds of practice questions and sample exams
- You will get more intensive information than any other course on the market.
- Learn at your location with personalized attention.
Course Outline
Chapter 1 — PMP® Application & Exam
- Student Guide Overview
- Course Expectations
- PMI’s Assumptions
- The Certification Process
- PMP® Candidate Requirements
- The PMP® Exam
- Domain Tasks
- The Required Score
- What Makes the PMP® Exam So Difficult?
- Test Taking Strategies
Chapter 2 — Types of Exam Questions
- Chapter Overview
- Questions With Two Right Answers
- Situational Questions
- Math or Modeling Questions
- Long winded questions & questions with extraneous information
- Understanding Versus Memorization
- Questions With Invented Terms
- Answers With More than One Component
- PMIisms
- Why People Fail The Exam
Chapter 3 — The Basics of Project Management — Part 1
- What is the Perfect Structure?
- Organic or Simple Organizations
- Functional Organizations
- Projectized Organizations
- Matrix Organizations
- A Weak Matrix Organization
- A Balanced Matrix Organization
- A Strong Matrix Organization
- Advantages of a Matrix Organization
- Potential Issues With a Matrix Organization
- Virtual / Hybrid / PMOs
Chapter 4 — Project Integration Management
- 4.1 Develop Project Charter
- 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
- 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
- 4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
- 4.5 Monitor & Control Project Work
- 4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
- 4.7 Close Project or Phase
Chapter 5 — Project Scope Management
- 5.1 Plan Scope Management
- 5.2 Collect Requirements
- 5.3 Define Scope
- 5.4 Create WBS
- 5.5 Validate Scope
- 5.6 Control Scope
Chapter 6 — Project Schedule Management
- 6.1 Plan Schedule Management
- 6.2 Define Activities
- 6.3 Sequence Activities
- Precedence Diagramming
- Conditional Diagramming
- Dependencies, Leads & Lags
- 6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
- PERT Estimating or Three Point Estimating
- 6.5 Develop Schedule
- Critical Path Methodology
- Resource Leveling and Critical Chain Methodology
- 6.6 Control Schedule
Chapter 7 — Project Cost Management
- 7.1 Plan Cost Management
- 7.2 Estimate Costs
- 7.3 Determine Budget
- Depreciation
- Straight Line Depreciation
- Production Method of Depreciation
- Accelerated Depreciation
- Double Declining Balances
- Sum of the Year Digits
- 7.4 Control Costs
- Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Earned Value Forecasting
Chapter 8 — Project Quality Management
- 8.1 Plan Quality Management
- 8.2 Manage Quality
- 8.3 Control Quality
Chapter 9 — Project Resources Management
- 9.1 Plan Resources Management
- 9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
- 9.3 Acquire Team
- 9.4 Develop Team
- Teams Assessments
- 9.5 Manage Team
- Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership
- 9.6 Control Resources
- Final Terms
Chapter 10 — Project Communication Management
- 10.1 Plan Communications Management
- 10.2 Manage Communications
- 10.3 Control Communication
Chapter 11 — Project Risk Management
- 11.1 Plan Risk Management
- 11.2 Identify Risks
- 11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
- 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Expected Monetary Value
- 11.5 Plan Risk Responses
- 11.6 Implement Risk Responses
- 11.7 Monitor Risks
Chapter 12 — Project Procurement Management
- 12.1 Plan Procurement Management
- 12.2 Conduct Procurements
- 12.3 Control Procurements
Chapter 13 — Stakeholder Management
- 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
- The Salience Model
- 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Management
- 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- 13.4 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
Chapter 14 — Professional Responsibility
- Your Duty to the Profession
- Scope and Estimates
- Authority
- Above All Else