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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

Control procurements

The controlling of procurements is an important step in the entire procurement process because it includes protecting your organization from breach of agreement, keeping track of the seller's performance, maintaining good relationships with your sellers, paying out of your budgets for contract work and incentives, processing formal changes (as needed), and closing out any procurement documents once the work has been completed and approved. Your organization may also have knowledge bases just for your vendors where everything is kept and updated. I know we had to hold on to our contracts for 8 years after they were closed, in order to be compliant. Your mileage may vary. The inputs list is again a long one because there are multiple documents to consider as well as your enterprise environment for this process and your organization process assets, so we'll focus on the main items for the exam.

The main inputs to be aware of include the following:

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