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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

Introduction to the 49 processes

Now that we've defined the individual process groups and knowledge areas that are used in a project at a high level, we can look at the individual processes that are used. Each process is attached to both a knowledge area and a process group. There are 49 processes, 10 knowledge areas, and 5 process groups. For example, the develop the project charter process is a function of project initiation and is found under the knowledge area of integration.

Even though it will look overwhelming at first, it is essential to memorize this chart at some point before your exam. This way, you will be able to ask yourself, "where in the chart am I? Am I in planning? Execution?". That understanding will go a long way to knowing what has already been done and what is still left to do. I recommend being able to duplicate this chart in less than 5 minutes. With that being said, there is some contention between experts about writing out the chart on...