The PMP® Exam : 20 Dirty Tricks During The Exam

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® Certification from the Project
Management Institute (PMI) is one of the top five in-demand certifications for 2013.1
It’s also one of the most challenging certification exams to pass. The industry
is littered with tales of earnest PMP seekers who thought they studied enough,
prepared enough and were experienced enough to pass the test, but who failed
miserably—sometimes more than once. Informal polls indicate that as many as
40 percent don’t pass on the first try.

You don’t have to be one of the 40 percent. Kicking off with overall project management concepts and
then organized by each of the 10 Knowledge Areas, we’ve compiled must-know PMP Exam tips, tricks and strategies on everything from:

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These are the broad topics that you must become competent in:
 Initiating the project
 Conduct project selection methods
 Define scope
 Document project risks, assumptions, and constraints
 Identifying perform stakeholder analysis
 Develop project charter
 Obtain project charter approval
Planning the project
 define and record requirements, constraints, and assumptions
 identified project team and defined roles and responsibilities
 create the WBS
 develop change management plan
 identify risks and defined risk strategies
 obtain plan approval
 conduct kickoff meeting
Executing the project
 executing tasks defined in project plan
 ensure common understanding and set expectations
 implement the procurement of project resources
 manage resource allocation
 implement quality management plan
 implement approved changes
 implement approved actions and workarounds
 improve team performance
Monitoring and controlling the project
 measure of project performance
 verify and manage changes to the project
 in show project deliverables conform to quality standards
 monitor all risks

Closing the project
 obtain final acceptance of project
 obtain financial, legal, and administrative closure
 release project resources
 identify, document, and communicate lessons learned
 create and distribute final project report
 archive and retain project records
 measure customer satisfaction
Professional and social responsibility
 ensure individual integrity
 contribute to the project management knowledge base
 enhanced professional competence
 promote interaction among stakeholders
Closing the project
 obtain final acceptance of project
 obtain financial, legal, and administrative closure
 release project resources
 identify, document, and communicate lessons learned
 create and distribute final project report
 archive and retain project records
 measure customer satisfaction
Professional and social responsibility
 ensure individual integrity
 contribute to the project management knowledge base
 enhanced professional competence
 promote interaction among stakeholders
The skills of a good project manager. Communication, problem solving, budgeting,
organizational, team building, team leading, negotiation and influencing, are the
skills of project management excellence.
The difference between a project and business as usual (operations). A project is temporary in nature with a definite beginning and ending date. Projects produce products (deliverables),
services or results. Business as usual is an ongoing activity and use repetitive processes that typically produce a similar result time and again.
Name the five project management processes. These are initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
Name the nine project management knowledge areas. These are integration management,scope management, time management, cost management, quality management, human resource management, communications management, risk management, and procurement management.
Be able to compare and