Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Preparation: Fourth Edition

Course length: 5 days or 10 nights

If you enjoy the prestige that comes from being the best in your field, then you’ll appreciate the professional advantages derived from attaining the PMP, the profession’s most globally recognized and respected credential. The PMP designation following your name tells current and potential employers that you have demonstrated a solid foundation of knowledge from which you can competently practice project management.

To be eligible for a PMP Credential, you must first meet specific educational and project management experience requirements and agree to adhere to a code of professional conduct. The final step to becoming a PMP is passing a rigorous multiple-choice examination designed to objectively assess and measure your ability to apply project management knowledge in the following six domains: initiating the project, planning the project, executing the project, monitoring and controlling the project, closing the project, and professional and social responsibility. This computer-based examination is administered globally with translation aids in 10 languages.

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Background	Project Management Experience	Project Management Education
High school diploma or equivalent or	Minimum of five years/60 months unique non-overlapping professional project management experience during which at least 7,500 hours are spent leading and directing tasks**	35 contact hours of formal education
Bachelor's degree or global equivalent	Minimum three years/36 months unique non-overlapping professional project management experience during which at least 4,500 hours are spent leading and directing tasks.**	35 contact hours of formal education
All candidates must	35 contact hours of project management education Complete PMP Application Forms Schedule and pass the 200 question, 4hour PMP Exam

* Project management experience must be accrued within 8 years of date of application.
**Leading and directing project tasks as identified in the PMP examination specification. Within the total hours of project management experience, experience within all five process groups is required. However, on a single project you do not need to have experience in all five process groups.

CCT’s PMP class is designed to provide the essential preparation needed to pass the PMP exam. The course will focus on the PMBOK (Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge) using PMI terminology. Our class is taught by a certified PMP.

Upon successful completion of the course you will earn 35 PMP PDU’s – the amount needed to meet the PDU criteria for sitting the PMP exam.

Course Description
Your ability as a project manager to demonstrate best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is becoming the standard to compete in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. This course expands upon the basic concepts of project management you discovered in the Project Management Fundamentals course, and offers a job-related approach to successful project management across application areas and industries.

Course Objective: You will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) to successfully manage projects.

Target Student: This course is designed for experienced project managers who desire to increase their project management skills, apply a standards-based approach to project management and apply for Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI®) Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification.

Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
Project Management Fundamentals
Microsoft Project 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Level 1
Microsoft Project 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Level 2
Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Level 1
Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Level 2
Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 Level 3
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Initiate a project.
Plan project work.
Develop project schedules, cost estimates, and budgets.
Plan project quality, staffing, and communications.
Analyze project risks.
Plan project procurement.
Execute project work.
Monitor and control project work.
Monitor and control project schedule and costs.
Monitor and control project quality, staffing, and communications.
Monitor and control project risks and contracts.
Close the project.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Initiating a Project
Topic 1A: Apply Project Management Processes
Topic 1B: Create a Project Charter
Topic 1C: Develop a Draft Project Scope Statement

Lesson 2: Planning Project Work
Topic 2A: Develop a Project Management Plan
Topic 2B: Create a Scope Management Plan
Topic 2C: Create a Scope Statement
Topic 2D: Develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Lesson 3: Developing Project Schedules, Cost Estimates, and Budgets
Topic 3A: Create an Activity List
Topic 3B: Create a Project Network Diagram
Topic 3C: Estimate Activity Resources
Topic 3D: Estimate Activity Durations
Topic 3E: Identify the Critical Path
Topic 3F: Develop a Project Schedule
Topic 3G: Estimate Project Costs
Topic 3H: Establish a Cost Baseline

Lesson 4: Planning Project Quality, Staffing, and Communications
Topic 4A: Create a Quality Management Plan
Topic 4B: Document Roles, Responsibilities, and Reporting Relationships
Topic 4C: Acquire Project Team
Topic 4D: Create a Communications Management Plan

Lesson 5: Analyzing Risks and Planning Risk Response
Topic 5A: Create a Risk Management Plan
Topic 5B: Identify Project Risks and Triggers
Topic 5C: Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
Topic 5D: Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
Topic 5E: Develop a Risk Response Plan

Lesson 6: Planning Project Procurement
Topic 6A: Prepare a Contract Statement of Work
Topic 6B: Prepare a Procurement Document

Lesson 7: Executing Project Work
Topic 7A: Project Plan Execution
Topic 7B: Perform Quality Assurance
Topic 7C: Develop the Project Team
Topic 7D: Distribute Project Information
Topic 7E: Request Seller Responses
Topic 7F: Select Sellers

Lesson 8: Monitoring and Controlling Project Work
Topic 8A: Control and Monitor Project Work
Topic 8B: Manage Changes to Performance Baselines
Topic 8C: Review Deliverables and Work Results
Topic 8D: Control Project Scope

Lesson 9: Monitoring and Controlling Project Schedules and Costs
Topic 9A: Control the Project Schedule
Topic 9B: Control Project Costs

Lesson 10: Monitoring and Controlling Project Quality, Staffing, and Communications
Topic 10A: Perform Quality Control
Topic 10B: Manage Project Team
Topic 10C: Report Project Performance
Topic 10D: Manage Stakeholders

Lesson 11: Monitoring and Controlling Project Risk and Contracts
Topic 11A: Monitor and Control Project Risk
Topic 11B: Administer a Contract

Lesson 12: Closing the Project
Topic 12A: Close a Project
Topic 12B: Close a Contract