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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

Summary

In this chapter, you reviewed how the scope and requirements management plans are essential to outline how the scope of work and collection of requirements will occur, how changes and updates are managed, and how the scope will get accepted. Next, you reviewed the most important scope document, called the scope statement. This document defines what will and what will not be included in the scope of work, and may go through several updates before it is approved as part of the scope baseline.

We then reviewed the most important planning document, called the WBS, and its companion document, the WBS dictionary. The WBS is a hierarchical decomposition of 100% of the scope of work, and that is the definition to remember for the exam regarding the WBS. Then you reviewed the scope baseline and its importance for the rest of the project planning process. Finally, we reviewed the validate and control scope processes to ensure the deliverables that we spent so long planning for will...