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PMP® Exam Preparation Online (Web-based)

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Overview:
Establish your credential as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by taking a Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI) certification examination. Project Management is an evolving profession, and employers are increasingly requiring that their projet managers be certified.


This online, self-study course is offered through a partnership with the University Learning Institute (ULI), and provides interactive lessons, a practice test bank of nearly 1,000 questions you can use as an examination simulation, and more.

This course (TheCourse) was developed and is conducted by a Registered Education Provider of PMI. The course is registered for 56-hours/PDUs, surpassing PMI's 35-hour education requirement, and pre-approved to prepare you for certification as a Project Management Professional. Course materials include the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide-4th Edition, workbooks tailored for TheCourse, and TheTest, a test engine containing almost 1,000 exam-like questions, to download and use on your own computer. You receive a six-month license to use the course online.


This course is part of the Certificate of Accomplishment in Project Management.

Note: Registrations may only be cancelled with partial refund within two weeks of registration; $125 will be deducted for test and materials. Macintosh users can take the course but will not be able to access the test bank. Customers outside the U.S. must provide their own copy of the PMBOK Guide.
Who Should Attend?
Project managers who need to pass a PMI certification examination and who wish to prepare at their own pace.
Objectives:
  • Explain the core competencies of project management
  • Recognize the examination format
  • Complete the certification exam application
  • Prepare to pass the PMP® certification examination
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    Syllabus:
    Segment 1. The Background of Project Management (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 1 & 2)
    1.1 Introductions, Course materials, Housekeeping & Homework
    1.2 Definition, Examples and Characteristics of Projects
    1.3 About Project Management Institute & Other PM Organizations
    1.4 Projects and Emerging Industries
    1.5 The Project Environment
    1.6 The Project Management Office
    1.7 Project & Product Life Cycles
    1.8 Stakeholders
    1.9 Organizational Structures & Influences

    Segment 2. The Gospel According to PMBOK® Guide (Includes PMBOK® Guide Chapter 3)
    2.1 PMBOK® Guide Organization
    2.1.1 Knowledge Areas, Processes & Process Groups
    2.2 The Production and Flow of Initiation and Planning Documents
    2.3 Scope, Schedule & Cost Control Processes
    2.4 Quality Processes
    2.5 Risk Monitoring & Control
    2.6 Project Execution & Change Control
    2.7 Course Guide

    Segment 3. Project Launch
    3.1 Develop Project Charter (PMBOK® Guide 4.1)
    3.1.1 The Project Proposal
    3.1.2 Enterprise Environmental Factors & Organizational Process Assets
    3.1.3 Mathematical models; Constrained Optimization
    3.1.4 Economic Evaluation
    3.1.4.1 Payback Period; Life-Cycle Costing; Net Present Value; IRR; Depreciation; Weighted Scoring Models
    3.1.5 The Project Charter
    3.2 Develop Preliminary Scope Statement (PMBOK® Guide 4.2)
    3.2.1 Scope Statement Contents

    Segment 4. Scope Planning & Definition
    4.1 Develop Project Management Plan (PMBOK® Guide 4.3)
    4.2 Scope Planning Process (PMBOK® Guide 5.1)
    4.2.1 Change Management Plan
    4.3 Scope Definition Process (PMBOK® Guide 5.2)
    4.3.1 Product Analysis: Product Breakdown; Systems Analysis; Systems Engineering; Value Engineering; Value Analysis; Functional Analysis
    4.3.2 Lateral Thinking; Brainstorming
    4.3.3 Stakeholder Analysis
    4.3.4 Scope Statement
    4.4 Create WBS Process (PMBOK® Guide 5.3)
    4.4.1 Work Breakdown Structure & Work Packages
    4.4.2 Scope Baseline

    Segment 5. Procurement & Activity Planning
    5.1 Plan Purchases & Acquisitions (PMBOK® Guide 12.1)
    5.1.1 Make or Buy Analysis
    5.1.2 Contract Options & Incentive Fees
    5.1.3 Procurement Management Plan & Statements of Work
    5.2 Schedule Management Plan
    5.3 Activity Definition Process (PMBOK® Guide 6.1)
    5.3.1 Activity Attributes
    5.4 Activity Sequencing (PMBOK® Guide 6.2)
    5.4.1 Dependencies; Precedence & Arrow Diagramming Methods
    5.4.2 Leads & Lags
    5.5 Activity Resource Estimating (PMBOK® Guide 6.3)
    5.5.1 Resource Requirements

    Segment 6. Estimating & Scheduling
    6.1 Activity Duration Estimating (PMBOK® Guide 6.4)
    6.2 Schedule Development (PMBOK® Guide 6.5)
    6.2.1 Critical Path Method
    6.2.2 Duration Compression
    6.2.3 Resource Leveling
    6.2.4 Critical Chain Scheduling
    6.2.5 Project & Resource Calendars
    6.3 The Cost Management Plan
    6.4 Cost Estimating Process (PMBOK® Guide 7.1)
    6.4.1 Resource Rates

    Segment 7. Budgeting, Quality & Risk Planning
    7.1 Cost Budgeting (PMBOK® Guide 7.2)
    7.1.1 Cost Baseline & Cash Flow
    7.1.2 The Performance Measurement Baseline (Budget)
    7.2 Quality Planning (PMBOK® Guide 8.1)
    7.2.1 Quality Gurus
    7.2.2 Six Sigma & Other Quality Movements
    7.2.3 Cost of Quality
    7.2.4 Quality Management Plan & Quality Improvement
    7.3 Risk Management Planning (PMBOK® Guide 11.1)
    7.3.1 Risk Management Plan
    7.3.2 Risk Categories
    7.3.3 Risk Breakdown Structure

    Segment 8. Risk Analysis & Response
    8.1 Risk Identification (PMBOK® Guide 11.2)
    8.1.1 Brainstorming; Delphi Technique; SWOT Analysis
    8.1.2 Diagramming Techniques
    8.2 Qualitative Risk Analysis (PMBOK® Guide 11.3)
    8.2.1 Risk Event Impact & Probability, Scoring
    8.2.2 Prioritization of Risks
    8.3 Quantitative Risk Analysis (PMBOK® Guide 11.4)
    8.3.1 Decision Trees & Expected Monetary Value
    8.3.2 Path Convergence
    8.3.3 Triangular & Beta Distributions
    8.3.4 Simulation
    8.4 Risk Response Planning (PMBOK® Guide 11.5)
    8.4.1 Avoidance, Transference, Mitigation & Acceptance of Risks
    8.4.2 Positive Risk Responses
    8.4.3 Risk Response Plan, Risk Register & Risk Database

    Segment 9. Wrapping up the Plan
    9.1 Human Resources Planning (PMBOK® Guide 9.1)
    9.1.1 Project Interfaces
    9.1.2 RAM Charts, Organization Chart & Staffing Management Plan
    9.2 Acquire Project Team (PMBOK® Guide 9.2)
    9.2.1 Resource Pools & Virtual Teams
    9.3 Communications Planning (PMBOK® Guide 10.1)
    9.3.1 Sender-Receiver Models
    9.3.2 Barriers to Communication
    9.3.3 Information & Stakeholder Analysis
    9.3.4 The Communications Management Plan
    9.4 Maintenance Transactions

    Segment 10. Watching the Front Lines
    10.1 Develop Project Team (PMBOK® Guide 9.3)
    10.1.1 Organizational vs. Project Roles
    10.1.2 Training Proposals
    10.1.3 Motivational Theories
    10.1.4 Leadership
    10.2 Manage Project Team (PMBOK® Guide 9.4)
    10.2.1 Power
    10.2.2 Conflict
    10.2.3 Constructive & Destructive Behavior
    10.3 Direct & Manage Execution (PMBOK® Guide 4.4)
    10.3.1 Project Management Methodology
    10.3.2 Work Performance Information

    Segment 11. Watching the Baselines
    11.1 Scope Control (PMBOK® Guide 5.5)
    11.2 Schedule Control (PMBOK® Guide 6.6)
    11.2.1 Variance Analysis & Additional Planning
    11.2.2 Schedule Revisions & Rebaselining
    11.3 Cost Control (PMBOK® Guide 7.3)
    11.3.1 Cash Flow & Funding
    11.3.2 Earned Value Analysis
    11.3.3 Completion Forecasting & To-Complete Performance Index
    11.3.4 Variance Analysis & Additional Planning

    Segment 12. Watching the Flanks
    12.1 Risk Monitoring (PMBOK® Guide 11.6)
    12.1.1 Workaround Plans & Corrective Action
    12.1.2 Risk Audits & Reviews
    12.2 Quality Assurance (PMBOK® Guide 8.2)
    12.2.1 Quality Audits
    12.3 Quality Control (PMBOK® Guide 8.3)
    12.3.1 Quality & Statistics
    12.3.2 Quality Tools
    12.3.3 Process Adjustments

    Segment 13. Stakeholders & Reporting
    13.1 Monitor Project Work (PMBOK® Guide 4.5)
    13.2 Information Distribution (PMBOK® Guide 10.2)
    13.3 Performance Reporting (PMBOK® Guide 10.3)
    13.4 Manage Stakeholders (PMBOK® Guide 10.4)
    13.5 Applying for and Taking the PMP® Examination

    Segment 14. Acceptance & Closure
    14.1 Scope Verification (PMBOK® Guide 5.4)
    14.2 Integrated Change Control (PMBOK® Guide 4.6)
    14.2.1 Maintenance Transactions
    14.2.2 Change Control Process
    14.2.3 Configuration Management
    14.3 Close Project (PMBOK® Guide 4.4)
    14.3.1 Administrative & Contract Closure Procedures
    14.3.2 Archives & Lessons Learned
    14.4 Introduction to Contract Law and the UCC

    Segment 15. Procurement
    15.1 Plan Contracting (PMBOK® Guide 12.2)
    15.1.1 Procurement Documents & Evaluation Criteria
    15.2 Request Seller Responses (PMBOK® Guide 12.3)
    15.2.1 Bidders Conferences
    15.2.2 Proposals
    15.3 Select Sellers (PMBOK® Guide 12.4)
    15.3.1 Screening
    15.3.2 Weighting System
    15.3.3 Contract Negotiation
    15.4 Contract Administration (PMBOK® Guide 12.5)
    15.4.1 Contract Change Control
    15.5 Contract Closure (PMBOK® Guide 12.6)
    15.5.1 Procurement Audit
    15.5.2 Formal Acceptance & Closure

    Segment 16. Professional & Social Responsibility
    16.1 PMI® Member Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct
    16.2 PMP® Code of Professional Conduct


    Course Details
    CODE:  PROJ8395A
    TYPE:  Distance Education
    LENGTH:  56 Hour(s)
    CREDIT:  5.6 CEU
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