Project Management Professional (PMP)® Training Overview
Pass the PMP® exam on your first attempt!
Velopi’s PMP exam preparation course supports you from the PMP application process right through to success at the PMP certification exam.
This course provides a detailed exploration of the syllabus and will explain the exam policies and procedures. Using sample exams covering the core exam material you will be exposed to questions having the same format as those in the actual exam.
You will get post-course support from the PMP certified tutor and have unlimited access to our Exam Simulator which provides full trial exams to ensure you are well prepared to pass the PMP exam.
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Skill Level
Professional -
Duration
- 5 Days
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Delivery
- Classroom
- Online
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Support
- Tutor on call
- Exam simulator
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Assessment
- 35
- Certification Exam 4hrs
Course Description
Revise all core PMP exam content and hot topics
Identify and recognise the various types of PMP exam questions
Complete sample exams using our PMP exam simulator
Assemble an exam checklist allowing easy recall of mathematical formulae that appear on the exam
Compile a PMP exam strategy that will be used in the actual PMP exam
Become familiar with the exam policies and procedures Meet the 35 hour Project Management training requirement for the PMP application
This Project Management Professional training course is aimed at experienced Project Managers.
If you meet any one of the following, then this (PMP preparation) course is the perfect choice for your path to Project Management Professional Certification with the PMI®
3 + years Industry experience of involvement in Projects
Experienced Project Managers with no formal PM qualifications
Project Managers looking for professional PM Certification
Professionals from a Construction, Information Technology, pharmaceutical, medical devices, Engineering or Service Industry etc. who are seeking to expand or develop their career into Project Management
Introduction
- The project life cycle
- Key stakeholders
- Exercise: Review of well known project failures
PMI framework
Project Integration Management
- Develop project charter
- Exercise: Create Project Charter
- Develop project management plan
- Direct and manage project work
- Monitor and control project work
- Perform Integrated change control
- Close project
- 20 Question Exam
Project Scope Management
- Plan Scope Management
- Collect Requirements
- Define Scope
- Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Exercise: WBS
- Validate Scope
- Control Scope
- 20 Question Exam
Project Schedule Management
- Plan Schedule Management
- Define Activities
- Sequence Activities
- Exercise: Critical Path
- Estimate Activity Resource
- Estimate Activity Duration
- Exercise: Estimation
- Develop Schedule Exercise: Crashing and Fast Tracking of schedules
- Control Schedule
- 20 Question Exam
Project Cost
- Project Cost Management
- Plan Cost Management
- Estimate Costs
- Determine Budget
- Control Costs
- Exercises: Earned value
- 20 Question Exam
Project Quality Management
- Plan Quality
- Exercise: Quality Planning
- Perform Quality Assurance (QA)
- Control Quality (QC)
- Exercise: Quality Assurance & Control
- 20 Question Exam
Project Risk Management
- Plan Risk Management
- Identify Risks
- Exercise: Risk Identification
- Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Exercise: Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Plan Risk Responses
- Exercise: Risk Response Planning
- Control Risks
- 20 Question Exam
Project Communications Management
- Identify Stakeholders
- Plan Communications Management
- Exercise: Communication Planning
- Manage Communications
- Control Communications
- Exercise: Project Progress Report
- 10 Question Exam
Project Human Resource Management
- Plan Human Resource Management
- Acquire project Team
- Develop project Team
- Manage project Team
- Exercise: Managing Teams
- 20 Question Exam
Project Procurement Management
- Plan Procurement Management
- Exercise: Contract Types Calculations
- Conduct Procurements
- Control Procurements
- Close Procurements
- 20 Question Exam
Project Stakeholder Management
- Identify Stakeholders
- Plan Stakeholder Management
- Manage Stakeholder Engagement
- Control Stakeholder Engagement
- 10 Question Exam
Project Professional Responsibility/Ethics
- Ensuring individual integrity and professionalism
- Contributing to the project management knowledge base
- Enhancing individual competence
- Balancing stakeholders’ interests
- 10 Question Exam Review
Recap/Q&A session
Plan from here to certification exam
- PMI requirements of candidates
- The PMP application process
- Exercise: Start experience calculation required for PMP application
- Exam makeup & Format
- Question Types Exercise: Identification of areas of weakness & analysis
Close
Following successful completion of the separate Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam, the award of PMP will be awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
The course will:
- Provide assistance with the PMI membership, PMP Exam registration, PMP Application form preparation and credential application procedure.
- Provide 35 hours of accredited project management training required by PMI prior to the PMP application process.
- Provide modules covering all exam material, broken up similarly to the PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
- Provide 20 PMP questions after each section to confirm participants' understanding of subject matter.
- Provide e-mail and phone support as necessary from PMP certified tutor until PMP Certification is achieved.
- Provide a framework to enable trainees to obtain the PMI specific understanding required to pass the examination.
- Provide access to our 800 PMP Exam questions in the Velopi PMP Exam Simulator.
- Provide one-on-one feedback regarding performance in each knowledge area to allow trainees to focus on areas requiring improvement.
Candidates for the PMP exam must satisfy the Project Management Institute's eligibility requirements.
These are:
- 35 contact hours of formal training. Attending Velopi's PMP exam preparation course will satisfy this requirement.
- Practical experience in project management.
If you have a bachelor's degree, you need 3 years / 36 months experience built up over the last eight years.
If you do not have a bachelor's degree, you need 5 years / 60 months experience built up over the last eight years. However, if you do not meet the eligibilit
We are official Registered Education Providers with the Project Management Institute. Our training materials and course structure have been reviewed against PMI’s quality standards and are continually updated to match the current PMP Role Delineation study. Our PMP Instructors are certified Project Management Professionals with years of experience in Project Management in local and international markets. We can offer courses in-house or at our own training facilities. Courses can be tailored to meet client needs where sufficient numbers are enrolled. We provide unparalleled one to one support to all course participants in the lead up to and after the Project Management Professional Exam. Free Access to Velopi’s online 800 Question PMP Exam Simulator.
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Exam & Certification
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Communicate and work effectively to a professional standard;
- Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills associated with effective practice;
- Engage in the application of frameworks and techniques in organisational settings;
- Awareness of how the Business Environment influences Decision-Making;
- Engage in Experiential Learning.
Following successful completion of the separate Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam, the award of PMP will be awarded by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Corporate training
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- Blended learning delivery model (self-paced e-learning and/or instructor-led options)
- Flexible pricing options
- Enterprise grade Learning Management System (LMS)
- Enterprise dashboards for individuals and teams
- 24/7 Learner assistance and support
Keep up to Date & Certified (PDUs)
Your career is a journey, and you’ll need to stay relevant as the profession evolves and as the needs of employers grow and change. Maintaining your PMI certification is a significant competitive advantage. It keeps you relevant and helps you better position yourself as the answer to what company's demand.
To keep your certification and keep you relevant and competitive for employer demanded skills,you’ll need to participate in professional development activities, and earn and report professional development units (PDUs.) The goal is to ensure that your certified competencies stay relevant and up to date.
There are tons of opportunities to earn PDUs.PMP credential holders love Velopi's PDU Centre because it's the easiest way to earn and document the 60 hours of professional development units (PDUs) that are required over a 3 year period.
As a learner with us, Velopi's PDU Centre helps you earn and report your Education PDUs to keep up to date and maintain your certification through our classes, seminars and webinars as well as self directed learning. Visit the Velopi PDU Centre to see our upcoming classes and webinars and Discover ways to earn PDUs or report earned PDUs with our Velopi PDU Centre.
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As a small and rapidly growing company, the Velopi team helped our Senior Management team introduce a common terminology, develop the company’s project management model and processes and apply it to our resource management and planning of Client projects every day so that, as a Company, we succeed in delivering quality projects, on time and on budget to our Clients.”
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Meet the Team
Managing Director & Founder
Seamus Collins has led Velopi since he founded the company in 2007. He has developed Velopi into the internationally recognised specialist in Project Management that’s helped hundreds of companies accelerate their growth.
Senior Training Consultant
An excellent communicator, John has a proven track record of delivering training and analysing training needs of project management training and consultancy to a range of companies across the IT, Telecommunications, Finance and Life Science sectors.
Training Consultant
A learning and development professional for the past 10 years, consulting with a variety of well-known and successful organisations, Michael holds two Masters degrees, MA Learning & Development and MSc Project Management.