The PMP® Certification Exam Study Guide facilitates the knowledge and confidence needed to achieve the highly sought after PMP® credential. Covering the nine knowledge areas and 42 processes covered in the actual examination, it contains more than 500 questions, memorization games, study tips, equations, and a glossary.
The book is filled with flowcharts and graphs that illustrate process input, tools, techniques, output, and interaction. To boost test-taking confidence, it includes a CD with exercise questions and two posters for process visualization. Each chapter contains self-tests with detailed answer keys to help you better understand the questions that will appear on the exam.
Helpful study tips, supplementary exercises, and important reminders for the day of the examination are also included in each chapter to help ensure you are ready to achieve PMP® certification the first time around.
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Training and qualifying people are the core of Rosaldo Nocêra’s work. A work that follows the impeccable care of his other publications, now focused on the PMP® certification by the PMI®, a leading certification in the market, with more than 300,000 certified professionals in 180 countries.
—Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, CSM, PMP, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Project Management Institute (PMI®)
Contents
Introduction to PMP® preparatory
Introduction
The Project Management Institute - PMI®
Eligibility for PMP® Certification
Information about PMP® exam
Didactic material presentation
Study plan
Study recommendations
Initial test
Answer key
Project management fundamentals
Introduction
What is a project?
Project life cycle
What is project management?
Relationship between project management process groups
Project management benefits
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKide)
Areas of expertise
Project management context
The project manager
Stakeholders
Organizational influences on the project
Environmental factors applied to project management
Attachment I Project selection
Additional information and reminders for the exam
Supplementary exercises
Questions
Answer key
Project management processes
Introduction
Project management process groups
Interaction among process groups
Project management knowledge areas
Knowledge areas overview
Project management process mapping
Additional information and reminders for the exam
Supplementary exercises
Questions
Answer key
Project Integration Management
Introduction
Project Integration Management processes
Integration management in project initiating
Integration management in project planning
Integration management in project executing
Integrati...
