Project Management Certification Paths
PMI® PMP® Exam Certification Path (within 3 months)
Believe us. To achieve the PMP® certification you have to take the problem seriously.
A 4-5 days class attendance facilitates learning but is not anywhere near sufficient to get
the job done.
The PMP® Certification Path will conduct you step-by-step to the certification exam.
The program include the following activities and deliverables:
- PMP® Exam Prep Course (5 days).
- 35 contact hours required by PMI® as one of the eligibility criteria for the PMP® certification.
- Customized study plan, defined with the tutor, to be completed within 3 months. The tutor will be available during work hours via email and mobile phone for the complete study program duration.
- Official copy of the PMBOK® Guide — Fifth Edition.
- 3 on-line test sessions (via Skype), planned in the context of the shared study plan, containing exam questions in ascending order of difficulty. Every Skype session with the tutor includes: test execution + interactive correction + open discussion.
- A complete online exam simulation (via Skype): 200 exam questions within 4 hours. Correction and open debate about results.
- WE PAY YOUR EXAM!!! PMP® EXAM TAX REFUND FOR ALL THOSE WHO SCORE MORE THAN 70% AT THE FINAL EXAM SIMULATION AND PASS THE PMP® EXAM WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE LAST "200-QUESTIONS" SIMULATION.
Global duration: from 1 to 3 months
5-Days PMP® exam preparation course:
- Day 1: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
- Day 2: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
- Day 3: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
- Day 4: 9:00 - 18:00 (1 - hour lunch)
- Day 5: 9:00 - 16:00 (1 - hour lunch)
Personalized study plan: from 4 to 12 weeks
Official test session via Skype with interactive correction and discussion:
- Test #1: 50 exam questions (1 hour)
- Test #2: 100 exam questions (2 hours)
- Test #3: 150 exam questions (3 hours)
Official exam simulation session via Skype with interactive correction and discussion:
- Exam Test: 200 exam questions (4 hours)
Experienced project managers who plan seriously to take the PMP® certification within a well defined deadline. Initial assessment and checks about exam eligibility criteria established by the PMI® will be conducted, in order to verify the minimum required amount of experience hours and study degree.
The following contents are covered by the Exam Prep Course at the beginning of the Certification Path.
The PMBOK® Framework: exploring the PMBOK® Fifht Edition.
- Projects, Project Management, Program Management, Portfolio Management, PMO
- Who is the Project Manager: role, skills and responsibilities
- Enterprise Environmental Factors & Organisational Process Assets.
- Project life cycle (vs. Product life cycle).
- The PMBOK® matrix: processes, knowledge areas and process groups.
- Organizational structure and influences.
- Mapping the interrelationships of the 10 knowledge areas to the 5 process groups.
The Vision: Integrating the PMBOK® Guide processes.
- Project startup: identifying a new project, business case and strategy. Developing the project charter.
- Plan: developing project management plan. Defining and coordinating all subsidiary plans.
- Do: performing project work.
- Check: measure project performance and monitor progress.
- Act: controlling changes throughout the project. Change-control and configuration management.
The triple constraint: exploring Project Scope, Time and Cost Management.
- From stakeholder identification to project requirements.
- Facilitating requirements-gathering using interviews, workshops and decision-making techniques.
- Requirements changes and traceability matrices.
- Developing detailed project and product descriptions.
- Scope baseline: creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) through decomposition.
- From WBS to activities definition and sequencing.
- Project estimations: activity resources and durations with analogous, parametric and three-point techniques.
- Time baseline: developing the schedule with PDM, ADM and CDM diagrams.
- Identifying costs and calculating performance baseline.
- Cost baseline: developing project budget.
- Performance progress and forecasting: assessing EVM (Earned Vaue Management) key dimensions, variances and indices.
Exploring Project Quality, Risk and Procurement Management.
- Quality planning: activities, standards and requirements.
- Preventing nonconformance through Cost of Quality (CoQ).
- Performing continuous improvements.
- Quality assurance and control.
- Implementing quality metrics and audits
- Risk planning: identifying and assessing, planning risk responses.
- Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis.
- Evaluating Expected Monetary Value (EMV).
- Monitoring and controlling risks.
- Re-evaluating existing risks and identifying new ones.
- Performing make-or-buy analysis.
- Planning project procurement and identifying sellers.
- Obtaining seller responses, awarding contracts and managing procurement relationships.
- Monitoring contract performance.
- Closing each project procurement.
Exploring Project Stakeholders, Communications and Human Resources Management.
- Identifying and assessing stakeholders.
- Managing stakeholder engagement. Increasing support and minimizing resistance.
- Plan communications: addressing stakeholder information needs.
- Applying communication theory and the levels of power.
- Collecting and distributing project informations.
- Utilizing hierarchical and matrix charts (RAM & RACI).
- Bosting project performance through team development and improved competencies.
- Developing the team: team building, Tuckman model, recognition and rewards
- Managing the project team. Motivational theories and conflict resolution techniques.
The Project Management Professional: Professional Responsibility and Ethics.
- The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
- Balancing the interest of all stakeholders.
Preparing for the PMP® exam as well as performing a project.
- Planning: identifying your strengths and weaknesses, design a personalised study plan.
- Executing: study optimizing time and applying proven tips to pass the exam.
- Monitoring and controlling: do exercises and tests and measure your performance.
- Closing: conquering exam apprehension, decide the test day and pass the exam!
Price: € 2,290 € 1,945 (Excl. VAT)
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Our enrollment process:
- Verify available dates on Public Classes Calendar section.
- Compile registration form to reserve your place.
- Wait for the course to became marked with a "Guaranteed to Run" icon (at least 20 days before course start date and/or upon reaching the minimum number of participants).
- Pay within 7 seven days from course start date to confirm your participation.
This program course provides you:
- A step-by-step certification path followed by a tutor who will prepare a personalized study plan to take into account the candidate requirement in order to get the PMP® certification studying at your own pace.
- An initial assesment of the eligibility criteria required by PMI®.
- A 5-days Exam Prep Course at the beginning of the certification path.
- An official copy of the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition.
- 35 contact hours required by PMI® as one of the eligibility criteria for the PMP® certification .
- 3 test session (50, 100, 150 exam questions) during the study path; sessions will be conducted via Skype with interactive correction and discussion, in order to identify strong and weaknesses and eventually apply some changes to the study plan.
- 1 exam simulation session (200 exam questions) at the end of the study path; session will be conducted via Skype with interactive correction and discussion, in order to identify strong and weaknesses and eventually plan further study and/or refresh.
This program is for experienced project managers who are planning to take the PMP® within a well defined deadline between 1 and 3 months. At least 3 years experience as a project manager and related project management training is assumed prior to taking this course. Although a general knowledge of the PMBOK® Guide is highly recommended, it is not assumed. (We will give you a copy of the PMBOK® Guide - Fifth Edition on the first day of class to each course participant to keep.)
The PMBOK® Guide - Fifth Edition serves as the official basis for the PMP® Certification Exam and provides a reference for anyone interested in project management discipline. The PMBOK® Guide offers a comprehensive conceptual framework for understanding project management discipline. PMBOK® Guide has become the framework by which many organizations develop their project management practices. The framework organizes project management activities into 10 knowledge areas, described in terms of component processes and five process groups.
The PMBOK® can appear overwhelming on first look. One methodology to study for the exam is to simply go over the knowledge areas and process groups by rote, memorizing facts that may or may not appear on the exam. We adopt a more complete and effective approach by focusing on the 5 process groups and the 10 knowledge areas, creating a complete picture of PMBOK® and those areas beyond the PMBOK® that are covered in the exam.
According to PMI® discipline, the PMP® eligibility criteria are divided into two categories.
- Category 1: candidate hold a minimum of a bachelor's degree and have at least 4,500 hours of project management experience within the five process groups. These candidates must also have at least 35 contact hours of project management education.
- Category 2: candidates possess a high school diploma but no other higher-level education degree. They must have accumulated at least 7,500 hours of project management experience within the five process groups and have completed at least 35 contact hours of project management education.
Definitely not. This program is only for people seriously involved in getting PMP® certification within a well defined deadline.
The exam consists of 200 multiple-choice questions, 175 are scorable questions and 25 questions, placed randomly, are "not scored" pretest items, which are used by PMI® to test the validity of future examination questions.
The exam is normally "computer based" and must be completed within 4 hours.
Once you pass the PMP® exam, will need to earn 60 PDUs per 3-year cycle. To learn more about the program, what are PDUs, how to earn and claim them, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to renew your certification, visit the Project Management Institute Website (www.pmi.org).
Yes. It is up to you to respect the shared study plan, perform the session tests and the final complete exam simulation. Normally we discourage candidates to try the exam if the score of the complete exam simulation is below 67%. We are so sure that following our program you will get your PMP® certification within the planned schedule that WE WILL PAY YOUR EXAM. PMP® exam tax refund for all those who score more than 70% at the final exam simulation and pass the PMP® within 30 days from the last "200-questions" simulation.
All public classes for Exam Prep Course at the beginning of the Certification Path are at our Comanagement Center in Rome.
On-Site Classes for Certification Paths at your premises are definitively the most appropriate and valuable solution if you have at least 4 people to certificate. Compile the form below to request informations. You will contacted a-s-a-p by our training team.
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