PD496 - Preparing for the Project Management Professional Certification Exam

Length: 2 days    CEUs: 1.50    PDHs: 15.00

This 2-day course is designed to help mechanical engineers prepare for the Project management Professional Examination.  The curriculum is focused on Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) PMBOK grid, covering all of the materials PMI considers important in the exam.  This course is revised often in order to reflect the changes in the Project Management Professional Examination, most recently, the changes that went into effect in March of 2002 and the coverage of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).  This course reviews the entire nature of project management, how all of the tools and techniques relate to one another, and how it all goes together to make a unified methodology that can be used to successfully manage products.  This course is packed with simulation questions that will be applied as hands-on exercise throughout its duration.  By the end of the course, you will have answered more than 500 simulation questions. 

Note: The Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification is designed to certify project managers who meet the criteria for both knowledge and experience.  Along with the changes of March 2002, PMI now requires at least 35-hours of project management education.  Therefore, it is recommended that candidates sign up for PD467, “Project Management for Engineers and Technical Professionals” first, or take the two courses combined (the combination course is PD629; "Project Management Combo Course,” for which one can save up to $525).

Attendees will receive the following:
Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam, Second Edition, by Michael W. Newell; AMACOM, ISBN: 0-8144-7171-2; Course notes/presentation is composed of a PowerPoint presentation handout with space for notes; and Access to MGCG’s online simulation exams after the course, until you pass the exam

Outline
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Who Should Attend
This course is primarily designed for mechanic engineers (ME’s) and technical professionals who already have project management knowledge and are preparing to take the PMP certification exam.

Throughout this course, participants will achieve the following results:
 -Practice for the PMP certification exam using the latest and most complete test-preparation materials available
 -Review each competency areas tested on the exam through numerous case studies and other valuable practices tools, including:
 -Practice questions, more than 500 in all
 -Simulated questions in the situational format of the new exam
 -Discussion and simulation questions on professional responsibility, which has been added to the certification exam
 -Discussion and simulation questions on risk management
 -Throughout this course, participants will be preparing to answer PMP certification exam questions on the following:
 -Scope and Time Management
 -Cost and Human Resources Management
 -Risk and Quality Management
 -Contract and Procurement Management
 -Communications Management
 -Professional Responsibility

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• Course Type: Public Course
• Course Number: PD496
• Language: English

Instructors

Marcus Goncalves has more than 14 years of management consulting experience and practices in United States, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
He has more than 30 books published in United States (5 in Brazil and many others translated in several idioms, including Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, German, Spanish and Romanian) and is often invited to speak on these subjects worldwide. Marcus specializes on Knowledge, Project Change and Risk Management practices. Marcus is a member of the project Management Institute and a certified project management professional (PMP).

In 1989, Marcus was simultaneously awarded Who’s Who in the US Executives and in the Computer Industry by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundation.

Marcus holds a master degree in Computer Information Systems, and a BA in Business Administration.

Brian E. Porter, PE, PMP, USA has over a decade experience in project management, product development, engineering, safety listings, patent, business strategy and start-up management in computer sales, consumer products, hazardous waste industry, industrial manufacturing and retail product markets.

Mr. Porter has maintained his professional engineering license in the state of Illinois for several years. He also has multiple patents within the USA and numerous pending both domestically and internationally.

Brian is a member of the Project Management Institute and has credentials as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and is seeking his PgMP in the near future. His international efforts include working with firms in China, Canada, Mexico, Romania, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Israel, Great Britain, Egypt, Italy and Germany. Mr. Porter holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Masters of Science in Management with Specialty in Project Management from Boston University.