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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

Lead and lag time

When sequencing activities and determining relationships, you may identify a need for either lead or lag time to be added to the relationship. Lead time condenses the overall duration, while lag time adds to it. There are some particular nuances to that statement, though. Lead and lag time do not add to costs, nor to resource schedules. If I am updating our data center and then installing the servers, I have a finish to start relationship. However, the servers will need to be delivered, and we may have to wait between the update and the install for that delivery. I will need to add some lag time between the update and the install. I'm not sure how your organization works, but I don't take kindly to paying people to stand around and wait for delivery people when they could be doing other things. Logically, though, that time needs to be there. Update data center = 4 hours, delivery time 4 days (lag), while installing servers = 3 hours. I only need resources...