Pass the PMP Exam Easily with the Exam Content Outline (ECO)
Are you a preparing for PMP exam? Then, how do you prepare, study and crack your PMP exam?
Generally, your answer may be that you prepare, study, and crack your PMP exam by using the PMBOK 7 edition.
But, remember that Exam Content Outline (ECO) is the most important document for the PMP exam (Project Management Professional Training) that nobody knows about. This is because all questions for the PMP exam must be developed based on the tasks described within the ECO and not the PMBOK® Guide.
Besides PMBOK 7, you should refer the Exam Content Outline that was released by PMI in January 2021. You can access ECO here: Exam Content Outline (ECO)
At the same time, Exam Content Outline is one of the best reference document for any project managers.Â
What is included in Exam Content Outline?
Indeed, based on Exam Content Outline the PMP exam is based on your skills in three domains:
- People (42% questions) – Recognizing you have the skills to effectively lead and motivate a project team throughout a project.
- Process (50% questions) – Using predictive, agile and hybrid approaches to determine which way of working is best for each project.
- Business Environment (8% questions) – Â Highlighting the success of a project and its impact on overall strategic organizational goals.
Further, Exam Content Outline is breakdown into:
- Domains: Defined as the high-level knowledge area that is essential to the practice of project
management. - Tasks: The underlying responsibilities of the project manager within each domain area.
- Enablers: Illustrative examples of the work associated with the task.
Next, let us see one example to learn domains, tasks and enablers.
- Domain: People
- Task: Manage Conflict
- Enablers:
- Interpret the source and stage of the conflict
- Analyse the context of the conflict
- Evaluate/recommend/reconcile the appropriate conflict resolution solution
Exam Content Outline Tabs
Moreover, you can use the given tabs to learn the domains, tasks and enablers in details. With this tab, you can connect with PMBOK 7 and Process Groups: A Practice Guide. This tabs is very useful for passing your PMP exam.Â
People
Process
Business Environment
People
Task 1: Manage Conflict
- Interpret the source and stage of the conflict
- Analyze the context for the conflict
Evaluate/recommend/reconcile the appropriate conflict resolution solution
Task 2: Lead a Team
- Set a clear vision and mission
- Support diversity and inclusion (e.g., behavior types, thought process)
- Value servant leadership (e.g., relate the tenets of servant leadership to the team)
- Determine an appropriate leadership style (e.g., directive, collaborative)
Inspire, motivate, and influence team members/stakeholders (e.g., team contract, social contract, reward system) - Analyze team members and stakeholders’ influence
- Distinguish various options to lead various team members and stakeholder
Task 3: Support team performance
- Appraise team member performance against key performance indicators
- Support and recognize team member growth and development
- Determine appropriate feedback approach
- Verify performance improvements
Task 4: Empower team members and stakeholders
- Organize around team strengths
- Support team task accountability
- Evaluate demonstration of task accountability
- Determine and bestow level(s) of decision-making authority
Task 5: Ensure team members/stakeholders are adequately trained
- Determine required competencies and elements of training
- Determine training options based on training needs
- Allocate resources for training
- Measure training outcomes
Task 6: Build a team
- Appraise stakeholder skills
- Deduce project resource requirements
- Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
- Maintain team and knowledge transfer
Task 7: Address and remove impediments, obstacles, and blockers for the team
- Appraise stakeholder skills
- Deduce project resource requirements
- Continuously assess and refresh team skills to meet project needs
- Maintain team and knowledge transfer
Task 8: Negotiate project agreements
- Analyze the bounds of the negotiations for agreement
- Assess priorities and determine ultimate objective(s)
- Verify objective(s) of the project agreement is met
- Participate in agreement negotiations
- Determine a negotiation strategy
Task 9: Collaborate with stakeholders
- Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders
- Optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and project
objectives - Build trust and influence stakeholders to accomplish project objectives
Task 10: Build shared understanding
- Break down situation to identify the root cause of a misunderstanding
- Survey all necessary parties to reach consensus
- Support outcome of parties’ agreement
- Investigate potential misunderstandings
Task 11: Engage and support virtual teams
- Examine virtual team member needs (e.g., environment, geography, culture,
global, etc.) - Investigate alternatives (e.g., communication tools, colocation) for virtual team member engagement
- Implement options for virtual team member engagement
- Continually evaluate effectiveness of virtual team member engagement
Task 12: Define team ground rules
- Communicate organizational principles with team and external stakeholders
- Establish an environment that fosters adherence to the ground rules
- Manage and rectify ground rule violations
Task 13: Mentor relevant stakeholders
- Allocate the time to mentoring
- Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities
Task 14: Promote team performance through the application of emotional intelligence
- Allocate the time to mentoring
- Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities
Process
Task 1: Execute project with the urgency required to deliver business value
- Assess opportunities to deliver value incrementally
- Examine the business value throughout the project
- Support the team to subdivide project tasks as necessary to find the minimum viable product
Task 2: Manage communications
- Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders
- Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of detail for all stakeholders
- Communicate project information and updates effectively
- Confirm communication is understood and feedback is received
Task 3: Assess and manage risks
- Analyze communication needs of all stakeholders
- Determine communication methods, channels, frequency, and level of detail for all stakeholders
- Communicate project information and updates effectively
- Confirm communication is understood and feedback is received
Task 4: Engage stakeholders
- Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
- Categorize stakeholders
- Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
Task 5: Plan and manage budget and resources
- Analyze stakeholders (e.g., power interest grid, influence, impact)
- Categorize stakeholders
- Engage stakeholders by category
- Develop, execute, and validate a strategy for stakeholder engagement
Task 6: Plan and manage schedule
- Estimate project tasks (milestones, dependencies, story points)
- Utilize benchmarks and historical data
- Prepare schedule based on methodology
- Measure ongoing progress based on methodology
- Modify schedule, as needed, based on methodology
- Coordinate with other projects and other operations
Task 7: Plan and manage quality of products/deliverables
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 8: Plan and manage scope
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 9: Integrate project planning activities
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 10: Manage project changes
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 11: Plan and manage procurement
- Determine quality standard required for project deliverables
- Recommend options for improvement based on quality gaps
- Continually survey project deliverable quality
Task 12: Manage project artifacts
- Determine the requirements (what, when, where, who, etc.) for managing the project artifacts
- Validate that the project information is kept up to date (i.e., version control) and accessible to all stakeholders
- Continually assess the effectiveness of the management of the project artifacts
Task 13: Determine appropriate project methodology/methods and practices
- Assess project needs, complexity, and magnitude
- Recommend project execution strategy (e.g., contracting, finance)
- Recommend a project methodology/approach (i.e., predictive, agile, hybrid)
- Use iterative, incremental practices throughout the project life cycle (e.g., lessons learned, stakeholder engagement, risk)
Task 14: Establish project governance structure
- Determine appropriate governance for a project (e.g., replicate organizational governance)
- Define escalation paths and thresholds
Task 15: Manage project issues
- Recognize when a risk becomes an issue
- Attack the issue with the optimal action to achieve project success
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the approach to resolve the issues
Task 16: Ensure knowledge transfer for project continuity
- Discuss project responsibilities within team
- Outline expectations for working environment
- Confirm approach for knowledge transfers
Task 17: Plan and manage project/phase closure or transitions
- Discuss project responsibilities within team
- Outline expectations for working environment
- Confirm approach for knowledge transfers
Business Environment
Task 1: Plan and manage project compliance
- Confirm project compliance requirements (e.g., security, health and safety,
regulatory compliance) - Classify compliance categories
- Determine potential threats to compliance
- Use methods to support compliance
- Analyze the consequences of noncompliance
- Determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs (e.g., risk, legal)
- Measure the extent to which the project is in compliance
Task 2: Evaluate and deliver project benefits and value
- Investigate that benefits are identified
- Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization
- Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits
- Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value
- Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress
Task 3: Evaluate and address external business environment changes for impact on scope
- Investigate that benefits are identified
- Document agreement on ownership for ongoing benefit realization
- Verify measurement system is in place to track benefits
• Evaluate delivery options to demonstrate value
• Appraise stakeholders of value gain progress
Task 4: Support organizational change
- Assess organizational culture
- Evaluate impact of organizational change to project and determine required
actions - Evaluate impact of the project to the organization and determine required actions
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