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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

Why project management certification?

Project management has been around since the dawn of time. Imagine trying to figure out the best way to build a fire for the very first time or to catch a large mammoth without being hurt! Humans have always figured out a way to improve the way things are done. In Late Middle Ages, imagine the scale of the Sistine Chapel artwork and other great works of art commissioned, and the building of incredible architecture, and, in a lot of cases, creating better ways of doing battle and organizing their troops. In the industrial age, project management applied to constructing tall buildings, ships, and trains, and utilizing new machinery to improve commerce and living. Now, we are in the technological age and even though we are still constructing buildings, trains, planes, and automobiles, we are finding ourselves with new types of projects that require best practices all of their own.

Many project management best practices have stood the test of time...