Front Matter -- Introduction -- PMP Foundation. The PMP Exam -- Foundations of Project Management -- Project Life Cycles, Organizational Structures, and Organizational Process Assets -- It's All about the Process -- Starting Off Right. OMG! It's a Project! -- Chartering Your Project -- Identifying Project Stakeholders -- Planning Scope and Schedule. Defining Project Scope -- Creating Your Schedule -- Planning Cost, Quality, Human Resources, and Communication. Estimating the Price Tag -- Planning for Quality -- Identifying Your Team Members -- 90 Percent of Your Job Is Communication -- Planning for Risks, Procurement, and Integration. Identifying What Could Go Wrong -- Getting Help -- Procuring Project Scope -- Constructing the Project Management Plan -- Managing Your Project. Executing Your Project and Assuring Quality -- Managing the People Side of Your Project -- Getting the Word Out to Stakeholders and Contractors -- Controlling Change, Scope, Schedule, and Cost. Monitoring, Controlling, and Managing Change -- Controlling Project Scope -- Controlling Your Schedule -- Controlling Cost and Using Earned Value -- Controlling Quality, Risks, and Contracts. Controlling Quality -- Reporting--The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- Managing Your Risks and Procurements -- Closing Your Project and the Code of Ethics. Closing Your Contracts and Your Project -- The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct -- Appendix A: What's on the CD -- Appendix B: Practice Test -- Appendix C: Lab Work -- Appendix D: Exam Objective Cross Walk -- Glossary -- Index -- Advertisment -- End-User License Agreement.

Introduction -- Book I: PMP foundation -- Book II: Starting off right -- Book III: Planning scope and schedule -- Book IV: Planning cost, quality, human resources, and communication -- Book V: Planning for risks, procurement and integration -- Book VI: Managing your project -- Book VII: Controlling change, scope, schedule, and cost -- Book VIII: Controlling quality, risks, and contracts -- Book IX: Closing your project and the Code of ethics.

This guide helps make the information in the PMBOK Guide more understandable, improving your chances of passing the exam on the first try. Each chapter helps you identify what you need to study and quizzes you on the material, while the practice exam on the CD helps you test yourself.

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