12/18/2020 Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Prep

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Prep

MSB106 / HOURS: 130 / ACCESS LENGTH: 12 MONTHS / DELIVERY: ONLINE, SELF-PACED
RETAIL PRICE: $1,694.00 / MATERIALS INCLUDED

Course Overview:
This course will provide experienced project managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully complete the Project
Management Institute’s nationally recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. This credential is considered the standard of
excellence in the field of project management and is often a required credential in the field. This comprehensive course will use learning
activities, practice exams, and assignments to help students prepare for, and successfully complete, the PMP exam.

This course prepares the student to take the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
exam. The cost of the course INCLUDES the cost of the certification exam.

Students will:

Describe the importance of project management, organizational project management maturity and the PMP® certification process

Identify the nine knowledge areas of PMI’s Guide to the PMBOK® 6e

Describe the project management process from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, to Closing
Identify the 49 key processes of project management and how they relate

Describe projects and project management disciplines

Identify the steps taken when initiating a project

Describe how to plan project work

Develop project schedules, cost estimates, and budgets

Explain how to plan project quality, staffing, and communications

Describe the process for monitoring and controlling project work, schedules, costs, quality, staffing, and communications
Explain how to monitor and control project risks and procurement tasks e.g. contracts

Explore the Agile Practices Guide for an introductory level understanding of iterative approaches

Demonstrate the skill in selecting best approach (iterative or traditional) for a given project

Course Mentor Biography:

ProTrain is proud to have Darrel Erickson as its subject matter expert/instructor for all project management related courses. Darrel is an
Associate Faculty member for the University of Phoenix, Hawaii Campus in the College of Information Systems and Technology. His areas of
teaching expertise include Analysis and Communication, as well as teaching various courses in IS&T, Project Management, Technical Writing,
and work in the School of Business, Operations Management and Project Management at the Graduate level. Darrel continues to teach both
classroom and online Management courses for Wayland Baptist University. Additionally, he consults and provides services to organizations as
they assess and implement technology projects. He is also an active member of Project Management International (PMI) Honolulu Chapter and
volunteer in their Professional Development Committee and PMP Exam Prep course. Trained in formal Project Management in Undergrad and
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Graduate studies in Project Management, with military program and project experience, Darrel obtained certification as a Project us

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Professional (PMP) in 2005. He holds a Master of Science Degree (Technology Management) and a Bachelor of Science
(Management Studies) from the University of Maryland (UMUC).

Course Outline:

Lesson One: Introduction to Project Management and the PMBOK Guide

This lesson will provide an overview of the PMBOK Guide, as well as the concept of project management. The
Relationships among Portfolio Management, Program Management, Project Management, and Organizational Project
Management will be discussed. In addition, students will learn about the business value of project management and the
relationship between project management, operations management, and organizational strategy. Finally, students will learn about the role of the
project manager and his or her responsibilities within the organization.

Lesson Two: Organizational Influences and Project Life Cycle

Projects and project management take place in an environment that is broader than that of the project itself. Understanding this broader context
helps ensure that work is carried out in alignment with the organization’s goals and managed in accordance with the organization’s established
practices. This lesson describes how organizational influences affect the methods used for staffing, managing, and executing the project. It
discusses the influence of stakeholders on the project and its governance, the project team’s structure and membership, and different
approaches to the phasing and relationship of activities within the project’s life cycle.

Lesson Three: Project Management Processes and Project Integration Management

The PMBOK® Guide describes the nature of project management processes in terms of the integration between the processes, their
interactions, and the purposes they serve. Project management processes are grouped into five categories known as Project Management
Process Groups (or Process Groups). This lesson provides information for project management of a single project organized as a network of
interlinked processes. It details the project management processes, and includes information regarding project management process
interactions and project management process groups.

Project Integration Management includes the processes and activities to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes
and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups. In this lesson, students will learn how Project Integration
Management includes making choices about resource allocation, making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives, and managing
the interdependencies among the project management Knowledge Areas.

Lesson Four: Project Scope Management

This lesson will explore the topic of Project Scope Management. Project Scope Management includes the processes required to ensure that the
project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. Managing the project scope is primarily
concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included in the project.

Lesson Five: Project Schedule Management

In this lesson, students will learn the processes involved in Project Schedule Management, which refers to the components required to manage
the timely completion of the project. Specifically, this lesson will address the concepts of schedule planning and management, activity definition
and sequencing, estimating activity resources and durations, and schedule development and control.

Lesson Six: Project Cost Management

This lesson will provide an overview of the processes involved in Project Cost Management. Students will learn how to ensure that projects can
be managed in a way that allows for completion within the allocated budget. Within this lesson, students will learn about planning, estimating,
financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs for each project.

Lesson Seven: Project Quality Management

This lesson will provide a comprehensive overview of Project Quality Management. This topic includes the processes and activities of the
performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was
undertaken. Project Quality Management uses policies and procedures to implement, within the project’s context, the organization’s quality
management system and, as appropriate, it supports continuous process improvement activities as undertaken on behalf of the performing
organization. Project Quality Management works to ensure that the project requirements, including product requirements, are met and validated.
In addition to the PMBOK reading covering Project Quality Management this lesson includes Monitoring and Controlling project work (Heldman,
CH10.)

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Lesson Eight: Project Resource Management

This lesson will provide an overview of Project Resource Management, which includes the processes that organize, manage, and lead the
project team. The project team is comprised of the people with assigned roles and responsibilities for completing the project. Project team
members may have varied skill sets, may be assigned full or part-time, and may be added or removed from the team as the project progresses.
Project team members may also be referred to as the project’s staff. Although specific roles and responsibilities for the project team members
are assigned, the involvement of all team members in project planning and decision-making is beneficial.

Lesson Nine: Project Communications and Project Risk Management

This lesson will provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform effective Project Communications Management. This
includes the processes that are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval,
management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information. Project managers spend most of their time communicating
with team members and other project stakeholders, whether they are internal (at all organizational levels) or external to the organization.

Lesson Ten: Project Procurement Management

This lesson will provide a comprehensive overview of Project Procurement Management, which includes the processes necessary to purchase
or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team, as well as how to close the project. The organization can be
either the buyer or seller of the products, services, or results of a project. It also includes the contract management and change control
processes required to develop and administer contracts or purchase orders issued by authorized project team members. In addition, Project
Procurement Management includes controlling any contract issued by an outside organization (the buyer) that is acquiring deliverables from the
project from the performing organization (the seller), and administering contractual obligations placed on the project team by the contract.

Lesson Eleven: Agile Practices Guide

This lesson will provide a comprehensive overview of Agile Practices, which includes the processes necessary to introduce students to Agile,
the Agile Manifesto and mindset (including Annexes A1-A2), lean and Kanban principles (including Annex A3), the various life cycles of Agile
projects, and Agile Implementation. Implementation topics include; creating an Agile environment and delivering an Agile environment.
Students will learn the organizational considerations for Project Agile and get a sense of urgency to capitalize on Agile processes in "A Call To
Action."

All necessary materials are included.

Certification(s):
This course prepares the student to take the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
exam.

To apply for the PMP, students will need to have either:

A four-year degree
36 months leading projects

35 hours of project management education/training or CAPM® Certification

— OR —

A high school diploma or an associate’s degree (or global equivalent)

60 months leading projects

35 hours of project management education/training or CAPM® Certification

System Requirements:

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

Cable and DSL internet connections are recommended for the best experience.

Hardware Requirements:

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CPU: 1 GHz or higher
RAM: 2 GB or higher

Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher

Speakers / Headphones
Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)

Operating System Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)

Mac OSX 10 or higher.

Latest Chrome OS

Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for
our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.

Latest Mozilla FireFox

Latest Microsoft Edge
Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)

PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)

Courses may require other software that is denoted in the above course outline.

** The course outlines displayed on this website are subject to change at any time without prior notice. **

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