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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Introduction.1 | |
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| The PMBOK | |
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| How Much Time Do I Have? | |
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| Project Management and Projects | |
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| Two Different Models of Approaching the Study of Project Management | |
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| The Phase Approach.8 | |
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| The Knowledge Area Approach | |
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| How Is the Test Constructed? | |
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| Questions You Should Not Answer | |
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| Why Do People Fail This Exam? | |
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| What Do I Need for the Exam? | |
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| When Should I Apply to Sit for the Exam? | |
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| Style of the Book | |
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| Questions from One | |
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| Answers from One | |
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| Initiation and Planning | |
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| Initiation and Feasibility | |
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| Planning | |
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| Scope Statement | |
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| The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) | |
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| Questions from Two | |
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| Answers from Two | |
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| IT and Engineering | |
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| Organizational Design | |
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| Stakeholders | |
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| Communication in the Execution Phase | |
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| Channels | |
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| Baseline | |
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| Status Meetings | |
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| General Comments on Planning and Execution | |
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| Questions from Three | |
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| Answers from Three | |
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| Execution and Control | |
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| Change Control System and Change Control Board | |
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| Project Management Information System (PMIS) | |
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| Version Control | |
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| Work Authorization System | |
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| Statement of Work (SOW) | |
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| Earned Value | |
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| Earned Value Acronyms and Formulas | |
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| Questions from Four | |
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| Answers from Four | |
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| Control and Closing | |
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| Administrative Closure | |
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| Project Archives | |
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| Project Closure | |
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| Contract Closeout | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Formal Acceptance | |
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| Questions from Five | |
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| Answers from Five | |
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| Responsibility to the Profession | |
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| Compliance with All Organizational Rules and Policies | |
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| Candidate/Certificate Holder Professional Practice | |
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| Advancement of the Profession | |
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| Responsibilities to Customers and the Public | |
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| Qualifications, Experience, and Performance of Professional Service | |
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| Conflict of Interest Situations and Other Prohibited | |
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| Professional Conduct | |
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| Questions from Six | |
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| Answers from Six | |
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| Mid-Book Exam | |
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| Mid-Term | |
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| Mid-Term Answers | |
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| Project Integration Management | |
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| Develop Project Charter | |
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| The Project Plan | |
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| Develop Preliminary Project Scope Statement | |
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| Developing the Project Plan | |
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| Project Plan Execution | |
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| Integrated Change Control | |
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| Close Project | |
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| Questions from Eight | |
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| Answers from Eight | |
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| Project Scope Management | |
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| Scope Planning | |
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| Scope Definition | |
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| Create WBS | |
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| Scope Verification | |
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| Scope Change Control | |
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| Questions from Nine | |
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| Answers from Nine | |
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| Project Time Management | |
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| Activity Definition | |
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| Activity Sequencing | |
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| Network Diagrams | |
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| Activity Resource Estimating | |
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| Activity Duration Estimating | |
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| Schedule Development | |
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| Schedule Control | |
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| Questions from Ten | |
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| Answers from Ten | |
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| Project Cost Management | |
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| Resource Planning | |
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| Cost Estimating | |
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| Cost Budgeting | |
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| Cost Control | |
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| Earned Value | |
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| Not in the PMBOK but on the Examination | |
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| Questions from Eleven | |
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| Answers from Eleven | |
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| Project Quality Management | |
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| Quality Planning | |
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| Performing Quality Assurance | |
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| Performing Quality Control | |
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| Questions from Twelve | |
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| Answers from Twelve | |
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| Project Human Resources Management | |
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| Human Resource Planning | |
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| Acquire Project Team | |
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| Developing the Project Team | |
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| Managing the Project Team | |
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| Questions from Thirteen | |
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| Answers from Thirteen | |
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| Project Communications Managemen | |