PMP Exam Cram: Project Management Professional

PMP

?

Project Management

Professional

Fourth Edition

Michael G. Solomon

PMP? Exam Cram: Project Management Professional, Fourth Edition

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction

1

CHAPTER 1

Project Management Framework Fundamentals

17

CHAPTER 2

Understand Project Initiating

45

CHAPTER 3

Examine Project Planning

65

CHAPTER 4

Explore More Elements of Project Planning

103

CHAPTER 5

Understand Project Execution

137

CHAPTER 6

Investigate Project Monitoring and Controlling

169

CHAPTER 7

Explain Project Closing

199

CHAPTER 8

Professional and Social Responsibility

215

PMP Practice Exam

237

Answers to the PMP Practice Exam

279

Index

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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

CHAPTER 1:

Project Management Framework Fundamentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The Project Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

What a Project Is and What It Is Not. . . . . . . . . . .

What Project Management Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Changes in the PMBOK Guide, Fourth Edition. . . . .

Project Management Knowledge Areas . . . . . . . . . .

Cram Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cram Quiz Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Organizational Frameworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Working with Organizational Politics and Influences .

Differentiating Functional, Matrix, and Projectized

Organizational Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Understanding Enterprise Environmental Factors . . .

Organizational Process Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cram Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cram Quiz Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Project Life Cycle and Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Understanding Project Life Cycles . . . . . . . . . . . .

Who Are the Stakeholders? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Managing Project Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Project Management Process Groups . . . . . . . . . . .

Understanding Project Life Cycle and Project

Management Processes Relationships . . . . . . . . . .

Processes, Process Groups, and Knowledge Areas . . .

Understanding Process Interaction Customization . .

Cram Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cram Quiz Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER 2:

Understand Project Initiating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Initiating Process Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

The Purpose of Initiating a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

The Project Manager Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

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