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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

Defining the scope and creating the scope statement

Before we get into what makes up the scope statement in the define scope process, this is an excellent point at which to circle back and see how far we've come. This documentation or process is easier said than done. We have covered a lot of information you will need to create a detailed scope statement, so this is a great spot to circle back and look at what has already been created and documented thus far on the project. To review everything we have done to get to this point, it is important to understand what you, the project manager, have done already:

  • Project managers are considered contributors to the business case development and do assessments of project viability.
  • We are expert judges on the creation of the project charter.
  • We have identified stakeholders, what their levels of interest are, and what the likely impacts are on our project.
  • Finally, we have collected and will continue to collect requirements...