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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

Monitoring and controlling project work

The integrated iterative process of monitoring and controlling project work is designed to allow stakeholders to know the current state of the overall project. This process also allows stakeholders to be kept up to date on any corrective or preventative actions as well as the overall cost and schedule forecasts to determine the future state of the project. You'll see from the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of this process that there are a lot of similar data analysis tools that you have already reviewed. Keep in mind that using those tools and techniques here is done to gain an understanding of the overall project performance and isn't specific to one knowledge area. The inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of monitor and control project work are as follows:

Inputs:

  • Project management plan:

    a) Any component

  • Project documents:

    a) Assumption log

    b) Basis of estimates

    c) Cost forecasts

    d) Issue log

    e) Lessons learned...