Project Management Professional
(e.g., Preparation for the PMP® Certification Examination)
Overview
This four (4) day PMBOK®-aligned course prepares you for PMP® certification
examination and gets your project management skills to a “more advanced” level of
performance. Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification has become the most
recognized credential for the practice of the rapidly evolving profession of project
management. This course prepares you for the PMP® certification examination offered
through the Project Management Institute.
Only people who have successfully demonstrated their mastery of the basic concepts of
project management are allowed to use the PMP® designation. Increasingly, companies all
over the world are recognizing the value that project management can provide to their
corporate performance. The establishment of career paths for project managers has
recognized this growing importance. PMP® certification is often a requirement for
promotion within this structure.
Special Features
This course is a hands-on tutorial that advances your project management skills and
abilities. It also prepares you to sit for the PMP® Certification Examination. During the
session, attendees use an electronic “Test Bank” which exactly mimics the PMP ®
Examination. Attendees can evaluate their overall scores and identify any weaknesses in
the nine PMBOK® knowledge areas.
In addition, an online review session is offered approximately two weeks after course
completion. The online review session offers students the opportunity to clarify course
material and to “refresh” on course content. This can be particularly useful prior to taking
the PMP® Certification examination.
The instruction approach includes lecture, case studies and class exercises. Extensive use of
case studies and in-class exercises provide for active student involvement in practical use of
course content. Case studies and in-class exercises are designed to develop and test
attendees knowledge in areas, such as Critical Path, Earned Value and Expected Value,
which must be learned in order to pass the PMP ® Examination.
In advance of the course, registrants should order and review “A Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK®-2000 Edition” from the Project Management
Institute at pmi.org.
Topic Highlights
Each of the nine PMBOK® areas of knowledge is addressed as separate modules, and the
five process groups. A brief presentation highlights the most significant aspects of each
module. Participants then individually answer a series of questions from our electronic
“Test Bank”. This electronic “Test Bank” exactly mimics the PMP® Examination with
four multiple choice answers for each question. After each of these individual working
sessions, the entire class reviews each question under the direction of our staff of PMPs. In
this manner, both the content and format of examination questions become familiar to each
student. From the results of proceeding on a module by module basis, participants will be
able to identify weak areas that require more individual study. The last session is a mini
examination taken from previous PMP® Certification Examination. This course covers the
nine knowledge areas identified in the PMBOK®:
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PMBOK Overview
Process Groups and Project Management Methodology
Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Communications Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management
Audience
Participants in this course should be managers and mid-career professionals who seek to
further develop their project management skills. You should also be eligible to sit for the
PMP® certification examination. It is assumed that participants have a working knowledge
of the PMBOK® and the nine knowledge areas.
Instructors
PMP® certified instructors present this course. Course instructors have over twenty years of
project management and operations management experience. The market sector experience
of our instructors includes: information technology, defense, education, banking and
finance, energy, and environment. Instructors have held senior positions as officers of
corporations and in the federal sector. In addition, the instructors have extensively
developed and implemented training programs using various learning media. Course
instructors are:
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L. John Hoover
Larry J. Joseph
Paula Shafer
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