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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : Ashley Hunt
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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

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By: Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you'll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. With this book, you will understand the best practices found in the sixth edition of the PMBOK® Guide and the newly updated exam content outline. Throughout the book, you'll learn exam objectives in the form of a project for better understanding and effective implementation of real-world project management tasks, helping you to not only prepare for the exam but also implement project management best practices. Finally, you'll get to grips with the entire application and testing processes in PMP® and discover numerous tips and techniques for passing the exam on your first attempt. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you'll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
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Section 2: Project Management Processes
17
Section 3: Revision
19
Chapter 16: Final Exam

Relationships

Relationships can be difficult. Relationships and their dependencies will provide you with a road map of your project and inevitably affect the duration of it and its resources. Just like any road map, there are multiple directions you can go in to reach your final destination. If you have ever taken a long road trip, you may decide to find the most direct route that will get you there the fastest. The same can be true for sequencing your activities together: finding the shortest distance between multiple points. Many highways diverge and converge with each other, as will project activities. Some will abruptly end, while some will carry on to the final destination.

The goal is to create the main output of a precedence network diagram or activity on node (AON). The precedence network diagram is a visual map (Gantt chart for those using software) of all your activities connected by dependency and relationship. The precedence diagram isn't actually a Gantt chart...

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