PMP: Project Management Professional v6- Based on PMBOK5 (Course & Labs)

(PMP-V6-complete)/ISBN:978-1-61691-634-3

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Kick start your prep for PMI-PMP (Project Management Professional) certification exam with PMP: Project Management Professional V6 course and performance-based labs. Performance-based labs simulate real-world, hardware, software & command line interface environments and can be mapped to any text-book, course & training. The PMP V6 complete certification guide includes both course and labs that provides knowledge required for managing and delivering a project with quality in limited constraints with the help of real-world scenarios.

Here's what you will get

PMP certification is designed for the professionals working as a project manager, leading and directing projects. PMP certification is a highly demanded credential these days. Having the project management certification makes you a part of peer group of professionals. This certification is a proof of your management skills and activities. The certification exam validates your expertise of project management and develops skills in creating, developing, and maintaining project schedules with risk analysis and management.

Lessons

14+ Lessons | 239+ Exercises | 82+ Quizzes | 75+ Flashcards | 75+ Glossary of terms

TestPrep

100+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 200+ Post Assessment Questions | 400+ Practice Test Questions

Video Lessons

26+ Videos | 04:46+ Hours

Here's what you will learn

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Lessons 1: What Is a Project?

  • Is It a Project?
  • What Is Project Management?
  • Skills Every Good Project Manager Needs
  • Understanding Organizational Structures
  • Understanding Project Life Cycles and Project Management Processes
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 2: Creating the Project Charter

  • Exploring the Project Management Knowledge Areas
  • Understanding How Projects Come About
  • Kicking Off the Project Charter
  • Formalizing and Publishing the Project Charter
  • Identifying Stakeholders
  • Introducing the Kitchen Heaven Project Case Study
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 3: Developing the Project Scope Statement

  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Plan Scope Management
  • Collecting Requirements
  • Defining Scope
  • Writing the Project Scope Statement
  • Creating the Work Breakdown Structure
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 4: Creating the Project Schedule

  • Creating the Schedule Management Plan
  • Defining Activities
  • Understanding the Sequence Activities Process
  • Estimating Activity Resources
  • Estimating Activity Durations
  • Developing the Project Schedule
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 5: Developing the Project Budget and Communicating the Plan

  • Creating the Project Cost Management Plan
  • Estimating Costs
  • Establishing the Cost Baseline
  • Understanding Stakeholders
  • Communicating the Plan
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 6: Risk Planning

  • Planning for Risks
  • Planning Your Risk Management
  • Identifying Potential Risk
  • Analyzing Risks Using Qualitative Techniques
  • Quantifying Risk
  • Developing a Risk Response Plan
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 7: Planning Project Resources

  • Procurement Planning
  • Developing the Human Resource Management Plan
  • Quality Planning
  • Bringing It All Together
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 8: Developing the Project Team

  • Directing and Managing Project Work
  • Acquiring the Project Team
  • Developing the Project Team
  • Managing Project Teams
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 9: Conducting Procurements and Sharing Information

  • Conducting Procurements
  • Laying Out Quality Assurance Procedures
  • Managing Project Information
  • Managing Stakeholder Engagement
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 10: Measuring and Controlling Project Performance

  • Monitoring and Controlling Project Work
  • Controlling Procurements
  • Controlling Communications
  • Managing Perform Integrated Change Control
  • Controlling Stakeholder Engagement
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 11: Controlling Work Results

  • Monitoring and Controlling Risk
  • Managing Cost Changes
  • Monitoring and Controlling Schedule Changes
  • Utilizing Control Quality Techniques
  • Validating Project Scope
  • Controlling Scope
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Lessons 12: Closing the Project and Applying Professional Responsibility

  • Formulating Project Closeout
  • Closing Out the Project
  • Closing Out the Procurements
  • Balancing Stakeholders' Interests at Project Close
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Applying Professional Knowledge
  • Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project
  • Summary
  • Exam Essentials

Appendix A: Exam Objective Mapping

Appendix B: Process Inputs and Outputs

Hands-on LAB Activities (Performance Labs)

What Is a Project?

  • Understanding stakeholders
  • Identifying the PMO types
  • Understanding the functional organization chart
  • Understanding the project management process groups

Creating the Project Charter

  • Identifying cash flow analysis techniques

Developing the Project Scope Statement

  • Understanding the Develop Project Management Plan process
  • Identifying decomposition steps

Creating the Project Schedule

  • Understanding the schedule management elements
  • Identifying the Define Activities process inputs
  • Identifying the Define Activities process outputs
  • Identifying the types of dependencies
  • Understanding the types of logical relationships
  • Identifying the Estimate Activity Resources process inputs
  • Identifying the critical chain process steps
  • Identifying the resource optimization techniques

Developing the Project Budget and Communicating the Plan

  • Identifying the cost management plan elements
  • Identifying the Estimate Costs process inputs
  • Identifying the Determine Budget process inputs
  • Understanding cost aggregation
  • Identifying the project budget elements
  • Identifying stakeholder engagement levels
  • Identifying communication method types

Risk Planning

  • Identifying risk attitude elements
  • Understanding the risk management plan
  • Identifying the risk management plan elements
  • Understanding the cause-and-effect diagram
  • Understanding information gathering techniques
  • Identifying the Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis process inputs
  • Describing the Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis process outputs
  • Describing the strategies for negative risks

Planning Project Resources

  • Understanding contracts
  • Describing the fixed-price contract types
  • Identifying the contract types
  • Describing the enterprise environmental factors
  • Understanding the human resource management plan
  • Identifying the Plan Quality Management process outputs

Developing the Project Team

  • Understanding change request actions
  • Understanding the Acquire Project Team process
  • Identifying the stages of team development
  • Describing the motivational theories
  • Identifying the Manage Project Team process outputs
  • Identifying the resolving conflict styles

Conducting Procurements and Sharing Information

  • Identifying the Conduct Procurement process inputs
  • Describing the contract life cycle stages
  • Understanding quality audits
  • Understanding the organizational process assets updates
  • Identifying the Manage Stakeholder Engagement process inputs

Measuring and Controlling Project Performance

  • Describing the forecasting methods
  • Understanding the Control Procurements process
  • Identifying the Control Communications process outputs
  • Describing the Control Communications process inputs
  • Understanding Change Control concerns
  • Describing the configuration control activities
  • Understanding the Perform Integrated Change Control process

Controlling Work Results

  • Understanding variance and trend analysis
  • Identifying the Control Costs process outputs
  • Understanding earned value management
  • Identifying the Control Costs process inputs
  • Identifying the Control Schedule process inputs
  • Identifying a control chart

Closing the Project and Applying Professional Responsibility

  • Describing the formal types of project endings
  • Describing professional responsibilities

Exam FAQs

PMI has the following prerequisites for PMP-v6 exam:

  • Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate's degree, or the global equivalent)
  • 7,500 hours leading and directing projects
  • 35 hours of project management education
OR
  • Four-year degree (bachelor s or the global equivalent)
  • 4,500 hours of leading and directing projects
  • 35 hours of project management education

  • For PMI members: USD 405
  • For non-PMI members: USD 555

Multiple choice questions

The exam contains 200 questions.

240 minutes

A pass/fail result score is generated based on your overall performance of the examination.

In the event that you fail your first attempt at passing the PMP-v5 examination, PMI's retake Policy is:

  • Candidates are granted a one-year eligibility period to pass the examination. During the eligibility period, you may take three attempts to pass the exam.
  • After the third unsuccessful attempt, candidates will have to wait for a period of one year before retaking the examination.
  • Candidates must submit a re-examination form before each attempt along with the re-examination fee of USD 275 for PMI members and USD 375 for PMI non-members.