CAPM/PMP Project Management Certification All-In-One Exam Guide 3e

CAPM/PMP Project Management Certification All-In-One Exam Guide 3rd Edition by Joseph Phillips offers complete coverage of all the material included on the Certified Associate in Project Management and Project Management Professional exams. You’ll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations.

Written by a leading project management consultant and trainer, this book will help you pass the exams with ease and will also serve as an essential on-the-job reference. There are close to 290,000 PMPs worldwide and PMI membership increased more than 10 percent from 2007 to 2008. PMI's CAPM and PMP certifications are not specific to any industry; all areas of business are adapting the certification as a guide to more profitable projects: manufacturing, business-to-business, government, and service industries.

Authors will be promoting the book worldwide as he speaks for PMI, and promotes his Project Life seminar. This text offers learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the exams, this definitive resource also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

Table of contents

Part I: Project Management Foundation
Chapter 1: Preparing for the Exam
Chapter 2: Managing a Project
Chapter 3: Examining the Project Processes
Part II: Project Management Professional Testing Areas
Chapter 4: Project Integration Management
Chapter 5: Managing the Project Scope
Chapter 6: Managing Project Time
Chapter 7: Managing Project Costs
Chapter 8: Managing Project Quality
Chapter 9: Managing Project Human Resources
Chapter 10: Managing Project Communications
Chapter 11: Managing Project Risks
Chapter 12: Managing Project Procurement
Chapter 13: Managing Project Stakeholders
Chapter 14: Understanding the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Part III: Appendices
Appendix A: Project Management Documents
Appendix B: Passing the CAPM and the PMP Exam
Appendix C: About the CD
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Book Details

Series: All-in-One
Hardcover: 640 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition (August 20, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071776044

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Operations and Supply Chain Management 14th Edition, Jacobs

Operations and Supply Chain Management 14th Edition by F. Robert Jacobs and Richard Chase provides well-balanced coverage of managing people and applying sophisticated technology to operations and supply chain management.

Authors have significantly strengthened the supply chain management material. This is particularly true in the areas of purchasing and strategic sourcing, and in lean supply chain analysis. Another major emphasis is in the area of sustainability as it relates to operations and supply chain processes. Sustainability has been woven into the book in several areas including strategy, quality management and value stream mapping, purchasing and global sourcing, and lean supply chain analysis. Sustainably is a topic that fits well within operation and supply chain management due to the strong tie between being green and being efficient.

This is sometimes a synergistic relationship, but often involves a difficult trade-off that needs to be considered. The reality of global customers, global suppliers, and global supply chains has made the global firm recognizes the importance of being both lean and green to ensure competitiveness. In this edition we introduce a new chapter focused on Healthcare Operations. This chapter describes special characteristics of Hospitals and Clinics in a context that relates to other topics included in the book. Internal processes such as the layout and flow of patients (called “care chains”) through the facility are discussed together with the material supply chains needed to support these facilities.

Another change was to move Project Management from Chapter 3 to Chapter 10 and it is now part of the section on Manufacturing, Service, and Healthcare Processes. Numbered learning objectives have been added to the beginning of each chapter. Step-by-step worked solutions for every example/solution in the text are now included on the text web site.

A major new feature is a “Super Quiz” included at the end of each chapter. This is designed to allow students to see how well they understand the material using a format that is similar to what they might see in an exam. The questions are designed in a short answer fill-in-the-blank format. Many of the questions are straight forward, but in each chapter authors have included a few more insightful questions that require true understanding of the material. You may want to go over these questions with your students as part of a review session prior to an exam.

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Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics 15th Edition

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics 15th Edition by Douglas Lind, William Marchal and Samuel Wathen provides complete coverage of statistical ideas and methods delivered in a pupil friendly, step-by-step format. The text presents ideas clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing fashion and illustrates ideas by means of the liberal use of business-focused examples which might be relevant to the current world of a faculty student.

Often known as a “pupil’s text,” Lind’s supporting pedagogy contains self reviews, cumulative exercises, and coverage of software functions including Excel, Minitab, and MegaStat for Excel. The brand new fifteenth edition places more emphasis on the interpretation of knowledge and outcomes and supports Lind’s pupil-centric, step-by-step method with McGraw-Hill’s industry main online assessment useful resource Join Business Statistics.

The division between the z and t distributions is handled otherwise in Chapter 9. The rule based on pattern sizes (n higher than 30) to differentiate when to make use of either z or t is replaced by the extra precise rule of using the z distribution when the usual deviation is known and the t distribution when it's unknown. Modified and reorganized Chapters 1 by means of 4 to set aside extra clearly the procedures for each stage of measurement.

The number of regression in Chapter 14 additionally consists of an investigation of the theory behind the linear model together with assessments for the violation of each assumption. The ANOVA chapter has been expanded to incorporate interaction. Revised and expanded workout routines are included in all chapters. Extra element in the software sections has been added where appropriate.

Simple, step-by-step presentation, supported by solved examples, self evaluations, workouts and assessment sections-all combine to offer students a flexible dynamic studying tool. Bigger data units, with the information included on the text website, and exercises aimed toward utilizing know-how resources make this a practical and fashionable text. Lifelike and related applications, optionally available computer and web-primarily based exercises, and plenty of assets provide Enterprise students with a motivating, applied, learning experience.

The photos and graphic illustrations present engaging and unintimidating presentation for beginning undergraduate students. Excel, MegaStat for Excel, and Minitab "screencam tutorials" provide students with a personal walkthrough with voice over showing how you can use these programs for doing statistics. Students can run these with actually one click and have a complete tutorial for evaluate, and they can quick ahead at any time. In essence, college students have the equal of a personal tutor obtainable to use at any time. The sorts of questions about 'how do I do XYZ?' that professors, lab assistants, or tutors need to reply are answered.

Extra real world data and eventualities are used in workouts and examples, offering students with more realistic and related purposes and motivation. Statistics in Action bins (about 2 per chapter) present further quick but enriching readings on business and economics in addition to the historical past and improvement of the field.

A Pronunciation Key itemizing the math image, means, and the right way to pronounce it follows on the finish of chapter. This helps students acquire confidence in the language of statistics and retain means of the symbol. (It additionally helps a student understand the professor's lectures when new symbols, etc. are introduced).

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Operations Management 11th Edition by Jay Heizer and Barry Render

Operations Management 11th Edition by Jay Heizer and Barry Render presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and practical manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of problems on the market. The problems found in this text also contain ample support—found in the book’s solved-problems and worked examples.

Using the 1, 2, 3, 4-dot system to distinguish level of difficulty for each problem (1 being the easiest and 4 the most difficult), this text now provides even more opportunity for students to challenge their knowledge and enhance their skills. The hundreds of new problems found in this edition also allow professors additional options when it comes to assigning homework based on a difficulty-level that’s appropriate for their students.

Step-by-step worked examples of problems are extremely helpful in an analytical course, which is why the chapters and myomlab contain worked-through examples that are reinforced by the end-of-chapter Solved Problems. Both the text and myomlab work together to help students build on what they learn in the classroom.

Operations Management is now integrated with myomlab–Pearson’s powerful online homework and assessment tool designed to help students practice operations management problems and improve their understanding of course concepts. With help from the textbook and myomlab, students are able to practice more problems, receive immediate feedback and use built-in tutorials.

In order to help students study and learn the concepts more effectively, this text now includes a two-page Rapid Review at the end of each chapter and supplement. This detailed, yet concise, summary of the main points and equations in the chapter helps students prepare for homework, exams, and lectures. The Rapid Reviews also include key chapter terms and a self-test, with questions linked to the learning objectives in the chapter.

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Supply Chain Management 5th Edition by Sunil Chopra and Meindl

Supply Chain Management 5th Edition by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl reveals the key drivers of excellent supply chain management so as to help readers perceive what creates a aggressive advantage. The edition continues to extend the concentrate on global supply chain.

As a way to assist college students see how all the items of the availability chain fit together, the strategic framework in this text identifies amenities, inventory, transportation, data, sourcing, and pricing as the important thing drivers of provide chain performance. General, the aim is to convey how these drivers could also be used on a conceptual and practical degree during supply chain design, planning, and operation to improve performance.

This edition consists of a number of new mini-instances all through the text. New circumstances appear in Chapters 3, 5, 6, 12, and 14. This edition features an enhanced Chapter 6 that focuses on designing global supply chains, including an in depth instance in Section 6.6 that appears at the onshoring/offshoring choice as a real possibility within the context of uncertainty. A new mini-case has additionally been included in Chapter 6 that takes look at the onshoring/offshoring decision.

This text affords on-line spreadsheets that students can use to know the idea for the numerical examples mentioned in the chapters. These spreadsheets present the main points of the example discussed but are also dwell and allow students to strive completely different what-if analyses. To assist college students see how the provision chain will be made more sustainable this edition features the brand new Chapter 18, which focuses on sustainability and the availability chain.

Book Details

Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (February 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132743957

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