Haner - PMP Project Management Professional Practice Exams

James L. Haner, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, is the head of Ultimate Business Resources Consulting, specializing in Building Better Businesses. James management and leadership roles have included establishing a corporate web presence, creating a successful organization-wide employee development plan, and developing the IT infrastructure for a start-up company.

James brings more than three decades of dynamic experience as a distinguished college professor; award-winning author of books, articles, and blogs; and successful management and leadership consultant to each learning experience.

He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). James has won the Dale Carnegie Course Highest Achievement Award. He earned the Vietnam Service Medal while serving in the U.S. Air Force.

Cate McCoy, PMP, PBA, CBAP, is the founding partner of Communi-cate, Inc., a technology management consulting and training company focused on government and corporate clients. She has been immersed in information technology projects for almost 30 years, including technical roles, project management roles, and business analysis roles. Her firsthand experience covers many industries, including government agencies, insurance, banking, and manufacturing. Ms. McCoy earned her masters degree in Information Systems and her bachelors degree in Computer Science from Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, while working as a technology professional at IBM in the 1980s. The technical background serves as a solid foundation for the projects she manages and the business analysis insights she brings to projects, providing both process-oriented and logic-based insights.

Staying true to her love for writing, Cate serves as author, curriculum advisor, and seminar leader for international training companies, including Learning Tree International. Ms. McCoy is the author and technical editor of several published books on technology and management topics and is the curriculum designer and author of over 100 courses on technology, project management, and business analysis.

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This book is dedicated to Anna Mae Moss. Yo Mom, I did it!

I thank Wendy Rinaldi for giving me the chance to write a different bookquestions organized by the way you run a project; Claire Yee for kindly and gently keeping me on schedule; Patty Mon for understanding the need to rewrite; Radhika Jolly for finding all those foolish little inconsistencies; Joyce Fucito for the timely formatting of all 1,049 questions and answersa herculean task; Chris Brady and Candice Ciampa for helping me help aspiring PMP candidates by using a subset of this book; Lisa McCoy, Claire Splan, Pamela Pelton, and Jeff Weeks from McGraw-Hill Education; and Cate McCoy for encouraging (forcing?) me to stick to the details.

Why PMP?

PMI sets the bar for all project management and has made the PMP the gold standard in certification. The PMP certification is recognized worldwide as one that ensures PMP holders conform to the highest standards and ethics, and continually improve. With a PMP certification, you can be assured that you are among the best project managers in the business.

Before studying and sitting for the PMP examination, you will need to first check you are eligible to sit it. Full eligibility criteria can be found at the PMI website (www.pmi.org), and you should check this website to ensure the following information is up to date.