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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

You're reading from Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838989309

Pages 826 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Project Management

Author (1):

J. Ashley Hunt

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the PMP® Exam

3. Chapter 2 :Introduction to Project Management

4. Chapter 3: Pre-Project Initiation

5. Chapter 4: Charters and Stakeholders

6. Chapter 5: Introduction to Agile Considerations

7. Chapter 6: Creating and Leading a Team

8. Section 2: Project Management Processes

9. Chapter 7: Scope Management

10. Chapter 8: Schedule and Cost Management

11. Chapter 9: Quality Management

12. Chapter 10: Resources and Communication Management

13. Chapter 11: Risk Management

14. Chapter 12: Procurement Management

15. Chapter 13: Stakeholder Engagement

16. Chapter 14: Integration Management

17. Section 3: Revision

18. Chapter 15: Next Steps and Study Tips

19. Chapter 16: Final Exam

Answers

20. Assessment

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Study tips

Take and retake practice exams until you score approximately 85-90 percent several times in a row. Be aware that the practice questions in your student guide will not be the exact same questions you will get in your exam as there is a test pool of thousands of questions.

You never know which questions you will get on your exam. You could be sitting next to someone taking their PMP® exam and they would have a different pool of questions to answer. The content is the same, but it is presented in different ways.

The exam itself is not adaptive, so the pool of questions you get when you sit down will not change based on your knowledge of one topic over the other.

I highly recommend that you use practice questions as a way to solidify the information rather than to rote memorize it, as you will find that the actual exam questions will differ.

If you do find yourself memorizing the answers without actually knowing why one answer is correct versus incorrect, it...

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Authors (1)

J. Ashley Hunt

J. Ashley Hunt is currently the senior project management instructor at StormWind Studios for Waterfall and Agile project management. A nationally and internationally renowned subject-matter expert in the areas of project management and professional development, she has created training offerings for, and delivered project management training to, more than 10,000 people working for enterprise clientele around the world. Ashley has developed an admirable reputation as a consultative trainer and engaging speaker in several disciplines, consistently receiving exemplary evaluations from her students and clientele. This is her second published study guide. Her relevant technical experience includes PMP®, Project+, PMI-ACP®, CSM, MCAS, and LSSGBC certified.

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