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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

Chapter 14: Integration Management

In this chapter, we will be covering the remaining processes in integration management. The importance of integration management processes, while seemingly high-level, shows the best practices for managing all the other knowledge areas. In Chapter 4, Charters and Stakeholders, we reviewed the importance of having a project charter giving us formal authorization to begin project work. Now we will pick up with the project management plan, which we also reviewed at a high level in Chapter 2, Introduction to Project Management. Using that project management plan, we will be able to execute project work and produce deliverables, manage project knowledge, perform integrated change control, as well as to control project work, and then we will move on to closing the project or phase.

The topics we will cover in this chapter include the following:

  • Developing the project management plan
  • Directing and managing project work
  • Managing project...