N.I.T.E - Project Management Professional (PMP) ® Exam Prep Course
Content Break-up & Methodology for awarding Contact Hours / PDUs
This course is based on Project Management Book of Knowledge PMBOK® Guide - 5th edition.
Course Content & Break-up
1. Overview: 2 hrs.
1) About PMI history
2) PMP®Certification program & details
a) Eligibility criteria & the certification process (Application & audit process,
Exam fees)
b) Exam structure (Topics covered, types of PMP® questions)
c) Training approach (How to prepare)
3) PDC® handbook, CCR® handbook
2. Project Management Framework: 2.5 hrs
1) What is PMBOK® Guide and its purpose
2) Project Vs operations (PMBOK® Guide definitions)
3) Triple constraint
4) Value of Project Management
5) Project Manager’s role & areas of expertise of Project Manager and Project
Team
6) Project Life cycle, Product Life cycle & Project Management Life cycle
7) Key Stakeholders
8) Organization structures
3. Project Management Process: 0.5 hrs
1) Product Oriented process & Project management process
2) IPECC
3) 9 Knowledge areas Vs 5 Project management process groups
4. Project Integration Management: 2.5 hrs
1) Project charter
2) Project Preliminary Scope statement
3) Project Selection Methods (PV, NPV, IRR, Payback period, BCR, Opportunity
cost)
4) Project Plan or Project Management plan
5) Manage and control Project execution
6) Integrated Change control (CCB)
7) Project closeout
8) Integration Management (How to integrate all 9 KA’s Vs 5 process groups)
Note: PMP®, PMI® and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, inc.
5. Project Scope Management: 2 hrs.
1) Project scope planning (Scope Management Plan)
2) Scope Definition (Scope Statement)
3) Work Breakdown structure (WBS & WBS dictionary)
4) Scope Verification process
5) Scope Control
6. Project Time Management: 2.5 hrs
1) Activity Definition (Activity List)
2) Activity Sequencing
a) How to draw a PND using PDM
b) Calculate Float (slack), Total float, free float
c) Identify Critical Path using PND
d) GERT
e) Leads & Lags
3) Activity Duration Estimating (Effort estimate Vs Duration Estimate)
4) CPM (Forward pass & backward pass) & PERT
5) Crashing, Fast-tracking & Resource Leveling
6) Gantt Chart, Project calendar, Resource calendar, RAM/RACI, Resource
Histogram
7. Project Cost Management: 2 hrs.
1) Project Management fundamentals & types of cost
2) Depreciation (Straight Line, Accelerated), Sunk costs
3) Cost Estimating (Top-down, bottom-up, parametric)
4) Accuracy range of estimates (Order of magnitude, conceptual, definite and
control)
5) Cost budgeting & Cost baseline
6) Cost control
7) Earned Value Management (EVM)
How to calculate PV, EV, AC, SPI, CPI, BAC, EAC, ETC, VAC (including
exercises)
8. Project Quality Management: 2.5 hrs
1) Quality Vs Grade
2) Quality Management, TQM, Quality policy, Gold plating
3) Quality Management process (QA, QC)
4) Quality Planning (Quality management plan)
5) Cost of Quality (COQ)
6) QA & Quality audits
7) QC (Fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, control charts, flow charts, Inspection,
Sampling, run chart)
Note: PMP®, PMI® and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, inc.
9. Project HR Management: 2 hrs.
1) HR planning (Roles & Responsibilities, Authority, competency, RAM/RACI,
etc)
2) Roles of Project sponsor, Team member, stakeholder, functional manager,
Project manager
3) Staffing management plan
4) Acquiring Project Team
5) Develop Project Team (Team building, 5 Powers of PM, 7 leadership styles
etc.)
6) Motivational Theories
7) Manage Project Team (Manage issues)
10. Project Communication Management: 1.5 hrs
1) Communication management (compliance, conformance and branding type of
communications)
2) Sender-Medium-Receiver
3) Communications planning (communication management plan)
4) Information distribution (forms of communication, communication methods &
channels)
5) How to calculate communication channels
6) Performance reporting (Status reports, & other reports, Earned value)
7) Manage stake holder’s communication
8) Project meetings
11. Project Risk Management: 3 hrs.
1) Risk Vs Assumptions Vs constraints
2) Risk Management Plan
3) Risk Identification (Risk Register RR)
4) Qualitative Risk analysis (High, medium & low)
5) Quantitative Risk Analysis)
6) Expected value calculation (Decision tress, Monte Carlo simulation software)
7) Risk Response (Avoid, Mitigate, Transfer or Accept)
8) Secondary risks, Residual risks & Reserves (Management reserves &
Contingency reserves)
9) Risk control.
Note: PMP®, PMI® and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, inc.
12. Project Procurement Management: 3 hrs.
1) Purchases and Acquisitions (procurement Management plan)
2) Contract & Contract types
a) CR (Cost reimbursable): CPFF, CPPC, CPIF, CPAF
b) FP (Fixed Price): FPIF, FPEFA
c) T& M (Time and Material
3) SOW
4) Request Seller responses (RFP’s)
5) Select Sellers
6) Contract Administration and contract closure
13. Project Stakeholder Management: 1.5 hrs.
1) Stakeholder Identification and Analysis
2) Stakeholder Management Planning
3) Engaging Stakeholders appropriately
4) Addressing Issues and Changes
14. Professional Responsibility: 1 hr.
1) Professional Ethics
2) Individual Integrity
3) Contributing to PM knowledge base
4) PMI®’s “Project Management Professional (PMP)® Code of Professional
Conduct”
15. PMP® Practice Exam: (Optional)
1) Recap
2) PMP® Examination, Types of questions, Tips for the exam
3) Practice Exam (200 questions)
Recap session and Review of Home Assignments on Day 2 (Framework, Integration): 1 hr.
Recap session and Review of Home Assignments on Day 3 (Scope, Time, Cost): 1 hr.
Recap session and Review of Home Assignments on Day 4 (Quality, HR, Communications): 1
hr.
Note: Every session includes practice questions/answers in order to clarify the PMBOK® Guide 5th edition concepts & understanding for the preparation for PMP® certification exam.
Contact Hours / PDUs for Classroom & Distance Learning
1. Classroom – Each hour of training gives the student 1 PDU / Contact Hour
2. Online / Distant Course – The time taken to conduct the course remains the same, and the
training is conducted at mutually convenient timings between the instructor and the student, but
the quizzes are done as home work and reviewed.
Total Online Hours = 18
Home Assignments / Quizzes = 14 Hrs
Review Sessions = 3 Hours
3. Totally Online Course – to be introduced and will have the same content with voice over
elaboration – includes quizzes from the quiz book totaling to 35 Contact Hours. The results are
validated to ensure complete participation.
Note: PMP®, PMI® and PMBOK® are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.