PMP® Exam Preparation Course
This is a 5 day course that prepares students to pass their PMP® certification exam. The course will also give students a solid grounding in the basics of project management. The course uses classroom lectures, visual aids, examples, test questions, and the interactive educational tool, AceIt© to provide students with the knowledge they need to pass their exams. threeO Project Solutions is a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) and this course satisfies the PMI®’s requirement of 35 contact hours of training for the exam.
Day 1:
- Project management context including: definitions, project phases, project stakeholders, organizational types and their impact on the project manager, and process groups.
- Project Integration including: the project charter, the business case, scope statement, the statement of work, the project plan, project plan execution, integrated change control, and closing the project.
- An exercise requiring the class to group together in teams of 4 or 5 students to read analyze a case study and propose solutions which they will present to the class.
- Scope management including: scope planning, scope definition, creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), scope verification, and scope control.
- Test questions to test students absorption of the material presented.
Day 2:
- Time management including: activity definition, activity sequencing, resource estimation, duration estimation, schedule development, schedule control, critical path identification, and critical path management (CPM).
- An exercise requiring the class to group together in teams of 4 or 5 students to read analyze a case study and propose solutions which they will present to the class.
- Quality management including: quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control
- Test questions to test students absorption of the material presented.
Day 3:
- Cost management including: cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost control, the various cost control formulas, and Earned Value Management (EVM).
- An exercise requiring the class to group together in teams of 4 or 5 students to read analyze a case study and propose solutions which they will present to the class.
- Human resource management including: human resource planning, project team acquisition, team development, and team management
- Test questions to test students absorption of the material presented.
Day 4:
- Communications management including: communications planning, information distribution, managing stakeholders, performance reporting, and conflict resolution.
- An exercise requiring the class to group together in teams of 4 or 5 students to read analyze a case study and propose solutions which they will present to the class.
- Procurement management including: plan purchases and acquisitions, plan contracting, request seller responses, select sellers, contract administration, contract closure, and identification of the various contract types.
- Test questions to test students absorption of the material presented.
Day 5:
- Risk management including: risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring and control.
- Test questions to test students absorption of the material presented.
- An exercise requiring the class to group together in teams of 4 or 5 students to read analyze a case study and propose solutions which they will present to the class.
- Tips and tricks for passing the the PMP® exam.
