Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® – (4 days, 25 PDUs)
Learning Objectives
- Provide all pertinent knowledge from the latest version of the PMBOK® Guide.
- Explain the five stages of a project life cycle and illustrate how these stages can overlap in time.
- Demonstrate how to create a project management plan with subsidiary plans for each of the knowledge areas and explain how progressive elaboration and integrated change management can keep these documents effective and relevant.
- Illustrate how a project’s various baselines (including scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, procurement, and others) are determined, planned for, and managed.
- Recognize how to effectively manage resources and communicate with all stakeholders.
- Explain the key methods used to estimate project schedule and cost at the beginning of a project and to forecast cost and schedule variances at any time during the project.
- Identify key project stakeholders and continuously engage them in appropriate project activities.
- Provide practice test questions to be completed throughout the bootcamp.
Course Overview and Agenda
The PME CAPM® Exam Boot Camp course provides the knowledge the student needs to evolve their career as a successful Certified Associate in Project Management and get ready for the PMI CAPM® Exam. This course fulfills the required 23-hour PMI contact hour requirement.
Discussion topics include: The Ten Knowledge Areas of Project Management: Integration, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risk, Procurement and Stakeholder. The Five Process Groups of Project Management: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. Two additional topics: Professional and Social Responsibility and Framework.
Day 1:
Introduction and Overview
Exam Registration
Overhead and Exam Environment
Assessment Test
Initiating Process Group
Exercise and Quiz
Day 2:
Review
Planning Process Group:
- Integration Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Communications Management
Exercise and Quiz
Day 3:
Review
Planning Process Group:
- Project Risk Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Stakeholder Management
Exercises and Quiz
Executing Process Group:
- Project Integration Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Stakeholder Management
Exercises and Quiz
Day 4
Review
Monitoring and Controlling Process Group
- Project Integration Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Project Communications Management
- Project Stakeholder Management
- Project Risk Management
- Project Time Management
- Project Cost Management
- Project Quality Management
- Project Scope Management
- Closing Process Group
- Project Integration Management
- Project Procurement Management
- Social and Professional Responsibility
Exercises and Quiz