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Provider:
ESI International
Topic(s):
Leadership & Management > Project Management
Who Should Attend?
Anyone preparing to take the PMP(R) exam
Full Seminar Description
Improve your chances of passing the grueling PMP(R) (Project Management Professional) certification exam on the first try. Find out exactly what you need to know and how to prepare yourself to successfully tackle any question on the exam. Become familiar with the makeup and format of the exam itself with ESI's exclusive PMP(R) Exam: Practice Test and Study Guide. Keywords: PMBOK, initializing processes, planning processes, scope management, cost management, risk management. 2 days. 12.0 PDUs. Fee per person: $1195.Beyond academic credentials, certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI)(registered) as a project management professional (PMP)(registered) shows the world that you've mastered essential project management skills and knowledge. To earn PMP(registered) credential from PMI, you must demonstrate the required "long-term commitment" to project management professionalism and pass rigorous, 200 question exam covering the five project management processes and nine knowledge areas in PMI's project management body of knowledge (PMBOK)(trademark).
Improve your chances of passing the grueling PMP(registered) certification exam on the first try with this well-proven and successful course. You'll find out exactly what you need to know and how to prepare yourself to successfully tackle any questions on the exam. You'll become familiar with the makeup and format of the exam itself, thanks to ESI's exclusive PMP(registered) EXAM: Practice Test and Study Guide, featuring hundreds of multiple-choice questions and fully referenced answers. Plus, you'll get a chance to explore the rationale behind each answer with your instructor, a certified PMP(registered).
In addition to ESI's PMP(registered) EXAM: Practice Test and Study Guide, you'll take home an extensive collection of exam-preparation study materials, including PMI's(registered) A Guide to the PMBOK(trademark) and ESI's popular and unique PMP(registered) Challenge -- 480 questions on spiral-bound, fully tabbed flashcards.
Learn from the project management experts at ESI how to make the most of your limited study time.
LEARN HOW TO:
- Reduce your study time in half by focusing only on relevant exam topics
- Develop a personal study plan based on three highly successful techniques used worldwide
- Use the five-step elimination process to help answer any question correctly
- Calculate your score while your taking the exam
- Turn double negatives into simple statements easily
PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS GROUPS
- Initializing processes
- Planning processes
- Controlling processes
- Executing process
- Closing processes
PROJECT INTEGRATION MANAGEMENT
- Project plan development: Historical information, Constraints and assumptions
- Project plan execution
- Overall change control: Change control system, Confirmation management
PROJECT SCOPE MANAGEMENT
- Initiation
- Scope statement: Cost, schedule and performance criteria, Management plan, Work breakdown structure, Scope baseline
- Scope definition
- Scope reporting
PROJECT QUALITY MANAGEMENT
- Quality planning: Six-sigma rule, Zero defects
- Quality assurance
- Quality control (QC): Statistical process control, Seven basic QC tools
PROJECT TIME MANAGEMENT
- Activity definition
- Activity sequencing: Dependencies, PDM vs. AOL
- Activity-duration estimating: Resource requirements, Historical information
- Schedule development: Resource pools, Calendar
- Schedule control: Performance reports, Change requests
PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT
- Estimating and forecasting
- Budgeting
- Cost control: Contingency management, Earned-value reporting, BCWS, BCWP, ACWP, Variance analysis
- Present value
PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT
- Identification
- Quantification: Expected value, Decision trees
- Response development
PROJECT HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Organizational planning: Project organizational structure, Reporting relationships
- Staff acquisition: Resource staffing, Negotiations for team members
- Team development: Theories of motivation, Conflict resolution, Influence factors
PROJECT PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT
- Procurement planning
- Solicitation planning
- Solicitation
- Source selection
- Contract administration
- Contract closeout
PROJECT COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Communications planning
- Communication process
- Skills, techniques, and styles
- Information distribution
- Administrative closure
STUDYING FOR AND TAKING THE EXAM
- Nature of the exam
- What to study
- How to study
- Test-taking strategies
- Test-taking tricks
Sponsor Background:
In 1989, ESI and The George Washington University School of Business and Public Management initiated the Project Management Professional Development Program as a corporate training program for one of the world's leading telecommunications companies.As the demand for project management expertise increased, ESI began offering public courses.
To date, more than 250,000 students from 50 countries around the world have benefited from the courses. As a result, our Project Management Professional Development Program has achieved the distinction of being the world's most comprehensive education program for building project management knowledge and skills.
Discounts and Payment Policy
Receive 10 percent off your registration when you sign up for two or more classes or you register yourself and a friend for the same course at the same time. You must sign up for the courses at the same time and pay in advance. Course discounts do not apply toward The Project Advantage course, the PMP Exam Preparation course or any e-training course.
In case of a course cancellation, substitutions can be arranged. Double Deal discounts cannot be applied to any past classes and are not applicable to e-training courses, the PMP Exam Preparation course or The ProjectAdvantage.
Quote From Past Participants:
Not only did this course point out what would be on the exam, it helped me identify areas of weakness I need to work on. Project Leader Lincoln National LifeThis online course made me feel less stressed about taking the PMP certification exam. It also encouraged me to try other online classes. Solutions Engineer NCR
I would absolutely recommended this course as the first step toward certification. It teaches what to expect from the exam. Project Manager Hewlett-Packard
Past Participants Include:
- Abbott Labs
- Amoco Corporation
- AMTRAK
- Bank of America
- The Boeing Company
- Dell Computers
- FedEx
- The Gillette Company
- Hewlett-Packard
- IBM
- Oracle
- Shell Oil
- US Postal Service
- World Bank
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