PMI ® PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

If you ever watched NBC's show "The Apprentice" on television, you have a feel for the challenges of Project Management. Project Management Professional certification is the most demanded professional management certification in the world today. PMI's recipe for success generates solid results for even the most demanding enterprises. It's the standard in competitive project management.

The keys to success are within your grasp. PMI methodology defines 44 easily followed steps, yet most of today’s Project Managers have never been through even half of them. It’s like trying to follow half of a diet, and then not understanding why it hasn’t worked; you just can’t get results this way. Most project performance problems can be fixed with the simple solution of effective training. The most important point to recognize is that one has to retain what’s been taught. What good is it to send a person to training if they revert back to their old methods?

That’s why CertTest is dedicated to teaching you how to use PMI’s methods. Our focus on improving your performance and your mastery of the techniques to ensure PMI becomes a part of your project management tool kit. You will learn exactly what to do - how to do it - and what to avoid. These techniques are based upon thousands of hours and twenty years of research and testing.

Project Management is a balancing act requiring specific tasks with specific skills to be effective. Top performers in Project Management use these PMI techniques. While anyone can claim the title of ‘Project Manager’, CertTest methods and training will put you in a class ahead of everyone else.

Why CertTest? Because our results are unique and effective. While our competitors typically only coach you on how to pass the certification exam, CertTest teaches you how to actually perform the PMI tasks so that you both understand the principles know how to use them. We teach you to be a more effective Project Manager.

Course length: 5 days

Training Hours: 35 hours (Required for PMP certification)

Target Student: New and existing project managers, leads and key project members.

Course Content

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to create plan activities in compliance with project requirements. Project management is accomplished through the use of processes such as: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing.

This course will focus on the standards for Project management created by PMI. These standards provide the beginner with a solid foundation for performing project management. Our course will provide the intermediate and advanced project manager with specific information required to successfully pass the CAPM ® or PMP® certification examination.

All specific PM knowledge areas are covered:

Day 1

• Course Overview
• Initial Assessment Test
• PMP-CAPM Certification requirements
• PMP-CAPM Application workshop (for submission to PMI)
• Project Management Basics
• PMI Project Management 44 Knowledge Areas
• PMI Project Management Processes

  Day 2

• Project Integration Management
• Project Scope Management

  Day 3

• Project Time Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Quality Management

  Day 4

• Project Communications
• Project Human Resources Management
• Project Risk Management

  Day 5

• Project Procurement Management
• Professional Responsibility
• Exam Tips
• Review of Knowledge Areas
• Practice Exam (plus two bonus exams for private study)
• Course Evaluations
• Class Completion Certificate & Transcript

CertTest offers the only hands-on training that is focused on your needs. We fully engage your mind and keep your attention. You will see grey areas and ambiguity converted into solid fact with effective application. You will participate in multiple exercises to apply the concepts using PMI techniques. This means you are doing hands-on work for 30% to 40% of the course. Work on actual projects using the PMI techniques, not studying multiple-choice questions or slideshows. We are confident that you should have no trouble getting an ACE on your PMI certification exam. Our results are excellent. View our report card.

Our students and their managers agree - This is the best class they attended.

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