Project Management Professional (PMP®)
Exam Boot Camp
Be completely prepared for the PMP® exam
A 5-day, 35 PDUs (3.5 CEU) instructor-led program
This program was designed to help you pass the PMP®
Certification Exam and expand your opportunities within your organization and
your industry. This comprehensive, 5-day course will ensure that you are well
prepared to take the exam.
The PMP Exam Boot Camp program was developed by a Learning Curve executive
whose former partner wrote the 1996 edition The PMBOK®
Guide and revised the PMP® Exam for the PMI®.
The program provides an intensive review of the knowledge areas that form the
basis of the PMP® Exam. You will be able to
identify your strengths and weaknesses in each of these areas and develop a
personalized strategy for passing the exam. The program mixes lecture, hands-on
workshops, online testing, and written sample examinations to reveal the full
array of questions and question-answering strategies. After completing
your PMP® Boot Camp, you will be ready
to pass the exam on your first try.
Upon completion, you will be able to:
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Recognize the general themes, concepts, and format of the PMP® process
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Master The PMBOK® Guide's "Framework for Project Management"
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Understand how the test writers have thought about the topics featured in previous PMP® Exams
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Identify your strengths and weaknesses in order to focus your review on the right sections of The PMBOK® Guide
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Become familiar with the process of taking the real PMP® Certification Exam
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Understand and use the key concepts of the progress measurement technique known as "earned value"
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Apply concrete steps to address test-taking anxiety .
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Define what you need to do to pass the exam on your first try
Who will benefit?
Project managersProject managers who seek an additional professional certification· Anyone interested in passing the PMP® Exam on the first try ·Those who want to become project managers ·Anyone who works closely with project managers ·Those interested in refining their general project management knowledge seeking additional professional certification · Individuals interested in a review of the of the 44 PMBOK processes
Agenda
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What does the PMP designation mean?
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What is the PMP® Exam like?
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What are the critical precursors to a project?
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What are the five Process Groups and the seven critical Integrating Processes?
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How do you sort the 44 processes two ways?
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Process Group: Initiation (2 processes in order)
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Charter and Preliminary Scope Statement: High-level estimates
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Scope: Scope statement, WBS, WBS dictionary, deliverables, verify and validate
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Quality: General knowledge, control chart, names
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Sample written exams on Scope and Quality . online exam on Initiation
Day 2 - Process Group: Planning (21 processes in order)
- Time: Sequencing, critical path, total float, merge, schedule baseline
- Cost: Range-based estimating, cost baseline
- Sample written exams on Time and Cost
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online exam on Planning
Day 3 - Risk: Threat vs. opportunity, risk register, risk chart, decision trees
- Process Group: Executing with progress reporting (7 processes in order)
- Earned value: Integrated performance baseline
- Sample written exams on Risk and Earned Value (with cost and time)
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online exams on Planning and Executing
Day 4 - Process Group: Controlling with Integrated Change Control (12 processes in order)
- Process Group: Closing (2 processes in order)
- Human Resource: General knowledge, RAM, LegoKid exercise
- Communication: Communication plan, input-output model, n(n+1)/2
- Contracting: Scale of risk, kinds of contracts
- Sample written exams on HR, Communication, Contracting
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online exams on Controlling and Closing
Day 5 - Professional responsibility: Reporting and compliance (44 Processes, all in order, with at least one output)
- Earned value revisited. (with additional exercises)
- Sample written exam on Professional Responsibility
- online exam on cost (with earned-value)
- Special focus sessions on topics that need to be reviewed
- Sample written exam on personal weak areas
- online exams on personal weak areas
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What should you do just before the test?
