Project Management Professional PMP Certification Training

Every day you start projects. They can be as simple as making a list when you go to a grocery store or planning and executing large-scale strategies to guide a business towards success.  All of the most successful people and professionals use Project Management in one way or another during their professional careers and while working towards their personal goals.

Don't be fooled by other courses that advertise "35 PDUs" then after you purchase the course, you discover that in order to earn those PDUs you must follow a link to their service where you must purchase more courses. In addition, PMI recognizes ALL forms of Project Management instruction, including self-directed learning.

Don't be fooled into paying a lot of money for PDUs by assuming that they must be granted by an REP. Other courses that charge big-money only to watch a boring, bullet-point heavy presentation or a 'talking-head' are wasting your time and resources. We strive to make this the most comprehensive Project Management course on Udemy. Unlike other courses, this course is updated every day with new learning material. The Common-Sense Approach to Learning Project Management" covers every process in the PMBOK guide 5th edition.

It's a comprehensive look at project management done the way the professionals do it. It's been designed as a common-sense approach for anyone who wants to learn how to:

• Learn proper and professional Project Management
• Manage costs, time, risks and resources
• Manage teams and individuals
• Achieve personal and professional goals
• Complete successful projects

Pass the PMP or CAPM exams and become a Certified Project Manager. If you hope to pass either of these exams.  If you are a PMP Certified Project Management Professional, this course can update your skills and knowledge-base with the new concepts and processes presented in the new 5th Edition of the PMBOK guide. This course may be also be submitted for 6 PDUs under the 'Self-Directed Learning' category.

This course is an upbeat and fun approach to learning Project Management, but don't let that fool you, this course presents all the things you will need to know in order to manage large and small projects like a professional. Project Management is easy said NO ONEEVER! Project Management will never be easy, but it doesn't have to be expensive, hard to comprehend and difficult to learn.

What is a PMP?

Project Management Professional(PMP) is a credential offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). It is globally recognized and currently there are 500,000+ active PMP certified individuals and 270 PMI chartered local chapters in 193 countries.

The PMP certification establishes a common terminology and framework among project managers. In order to earn the PMP credential, you must demonstrate your knowledge of the terminology, processes, tools and techniques as described within the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) framework.

The PMP Certification is the most well-known and sought-after certification in both business and industry today. Project Management is a growing profession and the salaries for those who hold the certification continues to grow at a considerable rate.  According to the 7th Edition of PMI's Project Management Salary Survey, which polled over 30,000 Project Managers from 29 countries, the median salary for a Project Management Professional is $92,000.

In order to lead you in passing the PMP examination, this comprehensive course will explain in-depth:

• The Project Lifecycle
• The 5 Process Groups
• The 10 Knowledge Areas
• The 47 Processes
• The 620 Inputs, Outputs, Tools and Techniques (ITTOs)
• The Concepts and Formulas

This course also has an Affinity Diagram Project that you can complete simultaneously as you progress through the course. The Affinity Diagram is a business tool used to organize ideas and data, and is one of the Seven Management and Planning Tools. This is a tool which is commonly used within project management. It allows large numbers of ideas to be sorted into groups for review and analysis, based on their natural relationships.

The PMP exam consists of 200 multiple choice questions written against the PMBOK specifications. The test-taker is only graded on their proficiency on 175 of the questions. Twenty-five of the questions are 'sample' questions and are placed randomly throughout the exam. These sample questions are used to fine-tune the degree of difficulty and precision of the exam. They are not counted for-or-against the test-taker.

Many of the questions are situational, meaning you will be asked how you would respond and/or what Input, Tool & Technique and Output you would use, given a certain project management scenario. Each exam is unique; the test is computer generated and each individual test is populated from a database of over a thousand questions.

Because of this, you must have a thorough understanding of the PMBOK 5. Simply reading online material and taking commercially available tests will hardly help you in attaining the PMP credential. This course was created as a companion to the PMBOK 5. It is designed so as you progress through the course, so will you progress through every chapter in the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

In this course, all 5 Processes Groups, 10 Knowledge Areas and 620 ITTO items (Inputs, Tools and Techniques, Outputs) are explained in simple-to-understand terms. In addition, this course is updated with glossary terms, questions, concepts and formulas from the PMBOK 5 every day in the discussion and announcement areas within the course module.

According to PMI, there are 5 Domains in the PMP exam framework. The percentage of each identifies the proportion a question from that domain should appear in exam:

• Initiating the Project: 13%
• Planning the Project: 24%
• Executing the Project: 30%
• Monitoring and Controlling the Project: 25%
• Closing the Project: 8%

This course comprehensively covers each of the domains according to the PMBOK 5. Armed with this information, it is up to you to decide how much time you want invest in learning each domain.