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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you'll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. With this book, you will understand the best practices found in the sixth edition of the PMBOK® Guide and the newly updated exam content outline. Throughout the book, you'll learn exam objectives in the form of a project for better understanding and effective implementation of real-world project management tasks, helping you to not only prepare for the exam but also implement project management best practices. Finally, you'll get to grips with the entire application and testing processes in PMP® and discover numerous tips and techniques for passing the exam on your first attempt. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you'll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
8
Section 2: Project Management Processes
17
Section 3: Revision
19
Chapter 16: Final Exam

Assessment exam

Question 1

Your project team is in the process of beginning to identify risks, and you have set up a facilitated brainstorming session in which the team can focus on categories of risk. Which of the following tools may be helpful in this process?

  1. Risk register
  2. Qualitative risk analysis
  3. Quantitative risk analysis
  4. SWOT analysis

Question 2

Jill is one of your best team members, and she is excellent at identifying and managing risk on your team. Jill is concerned that an identified threat on the project may impact your budget more than your project can handle. Which technique could you use to determine the price tag of the identified risk event?

  1. Earned value
  2. Expected monetary value
  3. Cost variance
  4. Cost performance index

Question 3

Keenan and Abdul are in the conference room, discussing different strategies for overcoming a risk event. Keenan feels the best course of action is to change the project management plan...