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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

Directing and managing project work

The main aspect of the direct and manage project work process is to execute based on the currently approved project management plan and its baselines to produce the deliverables as per the requirements. You spent so much time putting together all of these management plans, collecting requirements, tracing those requirements, and building out a schedule and a budget and scope baseline that you are now ready to begin executing the project work. This process is iterative as deliverables will be created throughout execution until the final product, service, or result is approved and you can close out the project. Keep in mind that when we covered scope management and quality management, I showed you a process flow that began with the deliverables, traveled through control quality to be verified as fit for use, then through the validate scope process so that the deliverables could be accepted. After this, the project or phase can be closed. In this chapter...