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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

Chapter 7: Scope Management

In this chapter, you will review the knowledge area of project scope management in both the planning process group and the monitoring and controlling process group. You will begin with the scope management plan, which describes how the scope of work will be planned, executed, monitored, and controlled. Then you will cover the requirements management plan, which will outline the processes of gathering requirements and executing them. Then you will review why a comprehensive scope statement is the most critical scope document. Once the requirements have been collected and approved, the most important planning document, the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is created. After this, the scope of work will need to be formally approved through the Validate Scope process and scope creep controlled via the Control Scope process. Both are important aspects of gaining approval on the deliverables and being able to control scope creep.

The topics covered in this chapter...