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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
Book Image

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

Organizational process assets and enterprise environmental factors

The importance of these two things is that we may all be in different industries, have different best practices or policies, and the culture of our organization affects the politics and who the organization is. The easiest way to remember these is to look at the middle words: process and environment. This refers to how your organization does things and who your organization is. The reason they are considered inputs for almost every single process is that PMI® is not insinuating that you have to do any of the best practices. The consideration of your current organizational processes and environment needs to be present and accounted for in every project. If you learn something new that can benefit your organization, then by all means, update both as needed.

Keep in mind that you are learning standards and not regulations. There isn't any have to on the exam (except for a project charter and formal closure...