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Project Management Essentials (CAPM) Certification Exam Prep Training Course

PME100

$2,295

  • 3 Days
  • Presentation slides including discussion points and sample questions related to each topic
  • Flash cards of essential project management terms
  • Agile Introduction video
  • Test bank to use in preparation for PMI CAPM certification
  • 23 PD Hours (professional development hours)
  • Replay™ Class Recordings Included

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Course Description

This course helps individuals gain more responsibility and increase their skills in their current project role by providing additional knowledge of current project management principles and terminology to work on a wide range of projects using a variety of approaches: agile, predictive, and hybrid.

This course provides the essential knowledge in building a career as a project manager and provides the foundational knowledge and skills that project teams demand. It focuses on an individual’s knowledge of Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts. It also includes components related to Predictive plan-based methods, Adaptive (agile) frameworks/methods, and Business Analysis frameworks.

PME100 covers the same Body of Knowledge that is covered in the PMI CAPM Certification. The understanding of this skillset is essential to pursuing entry and associate level project management career opportunities, such as project coordinator and junior project manager. Whether you are looking to build on your current skillset or pursue an exciting new career, the CAPM distinguishes your skills and empowers you to build the project management career of your dreams.

The 23 Professional Development Hours (PD Hours) will satisfy the 23 contact hours required to sit the CAPM certification exam. Should the student already hold a PMI certification (ACP, RMP, PBA, etc.), this course would count towards recertification. The hours for the course itself are typically used as part of the training requirement for the CAPM or PMP certification application.

Test Bank

Our current test bank consists of over 3000 questions that have been provided from PMI. These questions were written by the same individuals who write the questions for the exam. They were not selected to be used on the exam mostly because they are very close to other questions already on the exam.

We have taken the questions provided by PMI and grouped them to align with the content in each of the course lessons. To encourage continued practice answering the questions, we randomly select 20 questions from the bank of questions for each lesson.

The test bank for the CAPM is divided based on the domains – Foundation, Predictive, Adaptive, and Business Analysis. We do the same format, starting with 20 questions at a time for each domain – and then provide the full simulator – but since the CAPM questions are divided into two groups of 75 questions each – that simulator randomly pulls 75 questions

We recommend that students practice the questions by lesson until they consistently are achieving scores of 85% or better, and then scheduling their exam date about two weeks out so they can continue to practice a few rounds of the 60-question simulator including random questions from all of the individual lesson questions.

Outline

Lesson 1 – Project Management Fundamentals

  • What is a Project
  • Project Management Challenges
  • Project or Operational Work
  • Programs and Portfolios
  • Project Environment

 

Lesson 2 – Project Roles and Responsibilities

  • Stakeholders
  • Project Sponsor Role
  • Project Manager Role
  • Project Team

 

Lesson 3 – Development Approach and Life Cycle

  • Project Life Cycle
  • Tailoring the Project Life Cycle
  • Development Approaches
  • Project Activities, Deliverables, and Milestones

 

Lesson 4 – Business Analysis Framework

  • The Importance of Business Analysis
  • The Business Analyst Role
  • Requirements as the Focus of Business Analysis
  • Stakeholders and the Business Analyst
  • Influence of Project Approaches on Business Analysis
  • Stakeholder Communications
  • Communications Management Plan
  • Stakeholder Engagement Plan

 

Lesson 5 – Starting a Project

  • Understanding the Business Case
  • Creating a Project Charter
  • Establishing Communications
  • Selecting and Tailoring the Project Approach

 

Lesson 6 – Predictive, Plan-based Project Methodology

  • Tailoring a Predictive Life Cycle
  • Developing a Project Management Plan
    • Scope and Schedule (including Resource and Cost Estimations)
    • Quality
    • Uncertainty and Risk
  • Project Integration

 

Lesson 7 – Adaptive Approaches

  • Foundation and Considerations for Adaptive Projects
  • Typical Steps in an Adaptive Project
  • Requirements in Adaptive Approaches
  • Plan Releases and Iterations
  • Adaptive Approaches or Frameworks

 

Lesson 8 – Project Work and Deliver

  • Engaging Stakeholders
  • Monitoring and Controlling Processes
  • Detecting and Solving Problems
  • Measuring Performance
  • Applying Project Controls and Forecasting
  • Validating Requirements Through Project Delivery
  • Closing and Transitioning
Audience

Any individual wanting to build their career as a project manager.

Prerequisites

None.

What You Will Learn

This course provides information relating to an individual’s understanding of:

  • Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts
  • Predictive Plan-Based Methods
  • Adaptive (Agile) Frameworks/Methods
  • Business Analysis Frameworks

See below for the course objectives.


Project Management Fundamentals and Core Concepts

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the various project life cycles and processes.
  • Distinguish between predictive and adaptive approaches.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of project management planning.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of project roles and responsibilities.
  • Explain the importance of the role the project manager plays.
  • Determine how to follow and execute and respond to planned strategies of frameworks – e.g., communication, risks, etc.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of common problem-solving tools and techniques.

Predictive, Plan-Based Methodologies

  • Identify the suitability of a predictive, plan-based approach for an organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
  • Determine and give examples of the activities within each process.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule.
  • Determine how to document project controls of predictive, plan-based projects.

Agile Frameworks/Methodologies

  • Explain when it is appropriate and sustainable to use an adaptive approach for the organizational structure.
  • Compare the pros and cons of adaptive and predictive, plan-based projects.
  • Identify the suitability of adaptive approaches for the organizational structure (e.g., virtual, colocation, matrix structure, hierarchical, etc.).
  • Identify organizational process assets and environmental factors that facilitate the use of adaptive approaches.
  • Determine how to plan project iterations.
  • Determine how to document project controls for an adaptive project.
  • Distinguish between the components of different adaptive methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Scaled Adaptive Framework (SAFe), Kanban, etc.).
  • Determine how to prepare and execute task management steps.

Business Analysis Frameworks

  • Demonstrate an understanding of business analysis (BA)roles and responsibilities.
  • Demonstrate the importance of stakeholder and team communication to the business analyst role.
  • Determine how to gather requirements and using the best approach for a situation.
  • Explain the application of a product roadmap.
  • Determine how project methodologies influence business analysis processes.
  • Validate requirements through product delivery.