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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

Collecting requirements

Collecting requirements is far easier said than done. It's imperative to make sure that you speak to the right stakeholders for the collection of requirements. You will need to ask for clarification and document the requirements so that you can trace and manage them throughout the project. It's also an iterative process that could involve project scope or product scope requirements, which are two very different things. Project scope is what you are learning in this guide. It's the best practices, tools and techniques, documentation, and different ways of managing your projects effectively, all of which are dependent on the product scope requirements.

This spot is as good a place as any to stop and remind you again that reading carefully is the most critical exam tip I can give you. Project management exams are notoriously vague in the situational questions they present. The questions you answer in this guide may not be close to what you get...