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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

Assessment exam answers (Chapter 8)

Question 1

Which of the following is the most common precedence relationship?

  1. Finish to start
  2. Start to start
  3. Finish to finish
  4. Start to finish

It is the most common because it gives the most pessimistic total duration of the activities and is what project management software uses by default.

Question 2

You are working with your team and analyzing the current version of your precedence network diagram, as well as the durations that have been added to it. You are trying to figure out the critical path. Which of the following would be considered the near-critical path?

  1. 20 days
  2. 19 days
  3. 10 days
  4. 5 days

The near-critical path is the second-longest in duration.

Question 3

During the planning of a large install project, your essential resource lets you know that the first rollout will include tests of the system before the rest of the installs happen. He estimates that the automated tests...