Joseph Phillips – CAPM Exam Prep Seminar -Updated for the 2023 CAPM Exam (Download)
Why CAPM Certification Advances Your Project Management Career
The Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) credential validates your foundational project management knowledge and demonstrates commitment to the profession. For aspiring project managers and professionals performing project coordination roles, CAPM certification opens doors to opportunities and higher earning potential. However, passing the exam requires meeting PMI’s 25 contact hours of project management education—a requirement this course fulfills while preparing you thoroughly for exam success.
Course Overview
CAPM Exam Prep Seminar is taught by Joseph Phillips, a project management authority who holds PMP, PMI-ACP, ITIL, and Project+ certifications. As author of several project management books published by McGraw-Hill, the American Management Association, and Dummies Press, Joseph brings expert knowledge packaged into a PMI-approved course that meets all exam training qualifications through both quality audit and business review.
What You’ll Learn
The curriculum covers the complete 2023 CAPM Exam Content Outline across focused domains:
Project Life Cycles and Processes
Distinguish between projects, programs, and portfolios, and understand the difference between project work and operations. Learn predictive versus adaptive approaches, master all 49 project management processes, and apply PMI’s Code of Ethics to real-world scenarios. Understand how projects drive organizational change while managing issues, risks, assumptions, and constraints effectively.
Project Management Planning
Explore the purpose and importance of cost, quality, risk, and schedule management. Understand quality assurance and control, risk identification and mitigation strategies, and deliverables within project versus product management plans. Learn to differentiate milestones from task durations, determine resource requirements, utilize stakeholder registers, and manage project closure and transitions.
Project Roles and Responsibilities
Clarify the critical project manager role and compare it with the project sponsor’s responsibilities. Understand project team roles and responsibilities while distinguishing between leadership and management approaches.
Planned Strategies and Frameworks
Learn to follow and execute planned strategies appropriately, understand project initiation and benefit planning, and respond effectively to various frameworks based on project context.
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Problem-Solving Tools and Techniques
Master common project management tools and techniques including focus groups, standup meetings, brainstorming sessions, and other collaborative approaches. Evaluate meeting effectiveness to improve team productivity.
Predictive and Adaptive Approaches
Understand when predictive, plan-based approaches suit organizational structures versus when adaptive methods work better. Define goals and objectives, apply critical path methods, calculate schedule variance, create work breakdown structures, and develop quality and integration management plans.
Project Controls and Earned Value Management
Learn project controls for predictive projects, calculate cost variances using earned value management formulas, and explore essential project artifacts for tracking and reporting.
Course Features
The seminar includes practice exams and quizzes, worksheets, memory sheets, updated slides in PDF format, comprehensive terminology guides, and hands-on assignments. The Learning Management System tracks your completion to document the 25 contact hours required for CAPM exam application.
Who Should Enroll
This course suits project managers preparing for CAPM certification, professionals seeking to pass the exam on their first attempt, and anyone needing 25 PMI-approved contact hours for exam eligibility.
