This is not just a test prep course; we do not create paper PMPs. Get skills-based training developed using a proven methodology to meet your PMP goals while developing and reinforcing real-world project management skills.
During this boot camp course, you will:
- Utilize and build upon your existing knowledge base and experience to more efficiently pass your PMP certification exam through skills development and focused memorization exercises
- Gain 35 PMP PDUs upon successful course completion— the amount you need to meet the PDU criteria for sitting the PMP exam— extended days to cover all the materials
- Review the PMBOK® Guide (Fourth Edition) in class
- Learn the specific skills of project management through the lens of the Nine Knowledge Areas
Acquire the skills, knowledge, and confidence to pass the PMP certification test — it’s a difficult, specialized exam, but our methodology teaches you through your PM experience
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Using Your Experience:
The first part leads you through the Project Management Life Cycle using the context of the PMI Process Groups. It teaches project management the way it’s practiced, from start to finish. This methodology builds on your existing knowledge base to enable you to adopt the precise language and standardized terminology of PMI, and build real-world project management skills.
Preparing for the Exam:
The second part of the course examines the specific skills of project management through the lens of the Nine Knowledge Areas. Special importance is given to those concepts which historically have been emphasized by PMI, including memorization of guides and diagrams. Intense question review and focused memorization are an integral part of this section.
In-Class Practice Exams and Exercises
In-class practice exams help you learn not only the project management knowledge, but also the nature of the Project Management Professional exam, the types of questions asked, and the form the questions take. Through practice exercises you will gain valuable information, learn how to rapidly recall important facts, and generally increase your test-taking skills. Specifically, you will:
- Learn the subject matter of the PMP examination
- Memorize the important test information that has a high probability of being on your examination
- Develop time management skills necessary to complete the PMP exam within the allotted time
- Leverage your existing Project Management Skills
- Extrapolate from your real world experiences to the PMP examination subject matter
- Learn to identify pertinent question information to quickly answer examination problems
20 Benefits of Participating in this Project Management Boot Camp - PMP Prep
- Understand how to use Earned Value Analysis to keep a project on-budget and on-time.
- Clearly define the scope of a project and effectively manage it throughout the project's life.
- Learn calculation concepts - not just formulas - that allow the answering of computational questions, no matter how they are presented.
- Minimize the risk of a project through proper risk management and response planning.
- Learn the fundamentals of stakeholder analysis and how to manage stakeholder expectation.
- Learn key Procurement terms, concepts, and calculations such as Privity, the Risk profiles of different contracts, and Point of Total Assumption.
- Learn the five process groups that form the basis of the project management life cycle.
- Understand the nine knowledge areas and how they apply to each of the process groups.
- See how to properly fill out the Project Management Professional examination application.
- Satisfy the educational requirement to sit for the PMP examination.
- Understand the PMI terminology that will be used on the PMP examination.
- See how Quality Planning can be used to ensure project success.
- Know the subject matter that will be tested, the depth to which questions will be asked, and the emphasis that will be placed on each topic.
- Understand how Present Value and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) are calculated and used as part of a Project Charter
- Learn how to construct a dependency network.
- Produce task time estimates that utilize best-practices and are consistently reliable.
- Memorize key terms, equations, and graphs for the PMP examination.
- Take end-of-day quizzes to reinforce learning and prepare for the PMP Examination.
- Understand how to determine and measure a project’s Critical Path.
- Develop a study plan to pass the PMP examination on the first try.
Job Categories: IT Professionals, Construction Managers, Health Care Professionals, HVAC Professionals, Electrical Professionals, Plant | Operations Professionals, Engineering Professionals
Two certifications to choose from:
CAPM – Certified Associate in Project Management – Contributor to Project Teams
PMP - Project Management Professional – Leads and Directs Project Teams
