Part 2: How do you create a PMP Study plan? Important topics for the PMP Exam from PMBOK Guide 6th Edition

Transcript
Welcome back to the video series on creating a PMP exam study program. Today is part two. Today I will be discussing the most important topics for the exam. You may recall that in part one, I discussed exam success tips and basic plan. Please watch part 1 of this video series. Part 1 covered exam success tips such as studying the PMBOK guide, practicing a lot of questions, understanding exam nature, using an exam study book, understanding the PMI code and the exam syllabus. Also, I talked about motivating yourself and exhilarating yourself with techniques such as visualization. By focusing on the end goal and not worrying about the hard work involved, you can avoid getting stressed. Now, let me talk about the important topics. I will also explain what you should know and how you can decide which topics are important. PMI has published the exam outline or the content syllabus. In the first pages of the content outline, there is a division of marks according to process groups. So you remember, right? There are five process groups: the initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, as well as the closing. Each group has a marks allocation. PMP has 200 questions. What does this mean? Thirteen percent is 26 out of 200. This is just a guideline. You can expect to get 26 marks for initiating, or 26 questions assuming that one question is one mark. What are these initiating steps? These two things will add 26 marks to your score. I hope that you are now aware of this. Let’s move on to planning. Planning has 24 processes and twenty-four percent marks are allocated, right? It’s quite a lot. It’s only about one percent per process. However, there is no guideline. One percent process is an overall guideline twenty four percent. This means that forty-eight marks out of two hundred will be allocated for planning. You can see that scope management has many planning processes. Schedule management has several planning processes. Risk management and cost management have several planning processes. There are many other topics and knowledge areas that have only one or two planning processes. Execution has received thirty-one percent marks, which is quite high. Thirty one means sixty two of two hundred is executing. There are ten executing steps, two in integration – we have project management knowledge and can direct and manage projects. I am qualified to manage quality in Quality Management. I can manage resources, develop a team and manage them. Then we have to conduct procurement under procurement. I have to implement risk responses under Risk Management. Finally, I have to manage stakeholder engagement and manage communications. These are the executing steps. Please take the time to read this carefully. It has a lot of marks for these processes. I also got managed communications, I believe I mentioned that yes.
Monitoring and Controlling
Next, I’ll move on to monitoring and controlling. This has 12 processes and 25 marks. That’s 50 marks for monitoring and controlling. What are those monitoring-controlling processes? Two of them are involved in integration management.