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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

Monitoring and controlling scope

To officially close your project, it is usually necessary to get the final, formal signatures. Having a structured process does a couple of things; it provides formal acceptance of the scope of work, and it provides the necessary documentation needed to begin project closure or phase procedures. Not every organization has a formal sign-off policy on the scope of work, but I find it is an important step. After all, you did all of the planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling, and you would like to feel validated for all that hard work, darn it.

There is a cadence to project management and this is the reason for everything else we do to plan, execute, monitor, and control effectively.

That process includes the following:

  1. Producing the deliverable during execution (see the Direct and manage project work section in Chapter 14, Integration Management).
  2. Verified quality via inspection (see the Control quality section in Chapter 9...