Index

Candidates taking any project management certification exam can benefit from a high-level understanding of these topics.

1. Accuracy vs Precision
2. Ambiguity vs Uncertainty
3. Attribute Sampling vs Variable Sampling
4. Business Documents
5. Common Cause vs Special Cause Variations
6. Communication Channels
7. Complexity Models
8. Configuration Management System
9. Contract Types
10. Control Charts
11. Cost Budget and Reserves
12. Crashing vs Fast Tracking
13. Critical Path Method
14. Direct Costs vs Indirect Costs
15. Earned Schedule
16. Earned Value Management
17. Estimation in Project Management
18. Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
19. Explicit vs Tacit Knowledge
20. Fist of Five
21. Focus Groups vs Facilitated Workshops
22. Gold Plating
23. Impediments, Obstacles, and Blockers
24. Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership II Model
25. Knowledge vs Information
26. Lean vs Six Sigma
27. Lessons Learned Management
28. Louis Pondy Five-Stage Organizational Conflict Model
29. MoSCoW Technique
30. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
31. Non-Functional Requirements in Agile
32. OSCAR Coaching and Mentoring Model
33. Osmotic Communication
34. Personas
35. PMI-isms
36. Product Quality vs Project Quality
37. Product Scope vs Project Scope
38. Progressive Elaboration
39. Project Management Data and Information
40. Project Selection Methods
41. Quality vs Grade
42. Requirement Types
43. Requirements vs Scope
44. Resource Calendar vs Resource Histogram
45. Risk Management Terms
46. Risk Response Strategies
47. Risk vs Issue
48. Roles and Responsibilities
49. Rolling Wave Planning
50. Rule of Seven - Control Charts
51. Scope Creep
52. Scope Creep vs Gold Plating
53. Sensitivity Analysis and Tornado Diagram
54. Stakeholder Classification
55. Triple Constraints
56. Verification vs Validation