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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

Developing the project management plan

Since we have essentially covered all of the documents that will be part of the integrated project management plan, it makes sense to put the integration as the last chapter under process. At this point, we have covered every single management plan and baseline that would be integrated into the overall project management plan and then used to execute, monitor and control, and close out the project or phase. Remember, the project management plan is your YouTube video channel for how you will work your way through the project and make sure that any changes to the management plans and baselines go through integrated change control to be updated. With that being said, you'll notice that the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs are pretty straightforward for this process even though it's taken us several chapters to get all of the subsidiary plans and baselines together to integrate it. The inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of...