PMP Prep Course

Outline

Below is a high-level outline.

Introduction to the course

• How to get contact hours/PDU?
• Eligibility criteria for the PMP® exam and exam application process
• PMP exam format and content
• How to prepare for the PMP exam and pass on the first try

Foundational Elements and Project Environments

• Understand project and project management
• Project, program and portfolio management & organizational strategy
• Difference between projects and operations
• Product and project life cycles & types of project life cycles
• Project data, information, and tailoring
• Business documents, success measures, and project selection methods
• Identify Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEFs)
• Understand the impact of Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
• Organizational structures, culture, and influences
• Project delivery issues in various organizational structures
• Role of a project management office

Role of a Project Manager

• Influence of the project manager
• Project manager competencies and powers
• Leadership vs. management and leadership styles
• Personality traits of a project manager

Integration Management

• Identify and integrate processes and activities
• Develop project charter and project management plan
• Manage project work and project knowledge
• Monitor work and control changes using the change control board
• Close project or a phase of a project

Scope Management

• Define and manage the project scope
• Facilitate collection of requirements using interviews, workshops, group creativity, and decision-making techniques
• Manage changes to requirements through traceability matrices
• Write a detailed scope statement
• Create the Work Breakdown Structure through decomposition
• Set the scope baseline and analyze variances

Time Management

• Define and sequence activities
• Estimate activities duration with analogous, parametric, bottom-up, and three-point techniques
• Develop the schedule using the Precedence Diagramming Method
• Make the schedules realistic using critical path analysis, resource optimization, and schedule compression techniques

Cost Management

• Write the cost management plan and estimate costs
• Develop the budget and establish the cost baseline
• Identify costs and calculate performance baseline
• Assess Earned Value Management (EVM) key dimensions, variances, and indices
• Forecast project time and cost with EVM

Quality Management

• Understand Cost of Quality – conformance, non-conformance
• Prevent non-conformance through quality management plan and metrics
• Perform continuous improvements by managing quality
• Understand the use of seven basic tools of quality, e.g., control charts and Ishikawa diagrams.
• Implement quality metrics and audits

Resource Management

• Develop resource management plan including the staffing management plan
• Create hierarchical and matrix charts (RAM & RACI)
• Acquire and develop the project team
• Recognize and reward performance
• Understand motivational theories and apply conflict resolution techniques
• Control project resources

Communications Management

• Develop the communications plan
• Understand the communication model and appropriate uses of various communication methods and technologies
• Manage communications effectively and efficiently
• Apply communication theory and the levels of power

Risk Management

• Identify risks and risk awareness
• Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
• Develop and implement risk responses & audit risks
• Evaluate Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
• Perform Decision Tree Analysis

Procurement Management

• Perform make-or-buy analysis 
• Choose an appropriate contract type and establish source selection criteria
• Solicit and evaluate bids. Improve the quality of bids
• Control contract and resolve contractual disputes

Stakeholder Management

• Identify project stakeholders
• Analyze stakeholders and their expectations using various techniques
• Create a stakeholder engagement plan
• Manage and monitor stakeholders’ engagement to increase their support for the project

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

• Understand the PMI® Code of Professional Conduct and responsibility to the profession and the society at large
• Balance the interests of stakeholders
• Do the right thing at the right time

Agile and Hybrid Methods

• An introduction to agile
• Life cycle selection
• Creating agile
• Delivering in an agile environment
• Organizational considerations for project agility

Sample PMP Tests

• 4 full-length tests
• Each test has 180 questions
• Each test is 230 minutes long
• Simulated like the real test