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Intermediate
Government Project Management Courses |
The PMP Certification Program
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Seven-Day Seminar
You are 14 days away from being ready for
the PMP exam!
(Classes listed below may be taken
separately)
- Review typical test questions
- Review certification application
- Talk about ways to study for course exam
- Give tips on best way to take the exam
Session 1 Project Overview and
Scope Management
- Review terminology, organizational structures,
and project life cycle
- Review a project manager’s role in
managing the project scope, including how to define the
meaning of the term scope management
- How project scope works with the four phases
of the project life cycle; review how to develop a project
charter; how to understand the importance of the WBS in
defining the scope
- Review how the project schedule ties into
the project scope
- How to baseline the project scope; review
how to develop and use scope reports
- Go over sample scope exam questions
Session 2 Managing the Project's Time
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing and controlling the project schedule and use of
schedule tools
- Review how to apply the critical path method
- How to use PERT methodology
- How to estimate accurate activity durations
- Review how to apply scheduling terminology
- Review how to apply the project schedule
life cycle
- Review use of network diagram and Gantt charts
- Review set up of project constraints
- Review use of the WBS to develop the schedule
- Go over sample time exam questions
Session 3 Managing the Project's Human
Resource
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing the team members
- Review how to manage the behavioral issues
in a team
- Review how to identify the characteristics
of an effective team
- Review how to identify the different types
of teams
- Review how to motivate the team to be its
best
- Review how to give feedback to team members;
- Review how to set up a successful team
- Review how to use group decision making and
the pros and cons of using it
- Review how to use problem-solving models
for team management
- Go over sample team exam questions
Session 4 Managing the Project's Risk
and Code of Ethics
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing and controlling the project risk and use of risk
tools
- Review how to apply risk management definition
- Review how to identify and manage risk; review
how to develop a risk plan
- Review how to evaluate the probability of
risk happening
- Review how to attach money and time value
to risk.
- Go over sample risk exam questions
- Review ethics
Session 5 Project Cost Management and
Communication Management
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing the project budget
- Review how to do cost estimating and forecasting
- Review how to do cost budgeting, cost applications,
and earned value analysis
- Go over sample cost exam questions
- Review the communication terms and definitions
- Go over sample communication exam questions
Session 6 Managing the Project's Procurement
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing the project contract, such as the procurement planning
process
- Contract cycle; the “make it”
or “buy it” decision; the solicitation process;
choosing a contract type (cost plus, firm-fixed price, fixed
price incentive, time and materials); and principles of
contract reporting
- Go over sample contract exam questions
Session 7 Managing the Project's Quality
and Integration
- Review the project manager’s role in
managing the project quality and integration
- Review the history of quality; cost of quality;
measurement procedures
- Review how to develop corrective actions
and procedures to verify project effectiveness
- Go over sample quality and integration exam
questions
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