George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Which is/was the most difficult PMBOK knowledge area for you to study?
1.Project Integration Management : the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the project management process groups.
2.Project Scope management : the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
3.Project Time Management : the processes required to manage the timely completion of the project.
4.Project Cost Management : the processes involved in planning, estimating, budgeting, financing, funding, managing, and controlling costs so that the project can be completed within the approved budget.
5.Project Quality Management : the processes and activities of the performing organization that determine quality policies, objectives, and responsibilities so that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
6.Project Human Resource Management : the processes that organize, manage, and lead the project team.
7.Project Communications Management : the processes that are required to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, monitoring, and the ultimate disposition of project information.
8.Project Risk Management : the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, and controlling risk on a project.
9.Project Procurement Management : the processes necessary to purchase or acquire products, services, or results needed from outside the project team. Processes in this area include Procurement Planning, Solicitation Planning, Solicitation, Source Selection, Contract Administration, and Contract Closeout.
10.Project Stakeholders Management : the processes required to identify all people or organizations impacted by the project, analyzing stakeholder expectations and impact on the project, and developing appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. Saving Changes...
8. Project Risk Management
So far I found Project Risk Management the most difficult one. It's quite complex since it has a high volume of inputs, tools/techniques and outputs. Up and until the risk management chapter, I have been able to relate most concepts to my work experience over the past years though.
9. Project Procurement Management
I am now about to start with Procurement Management, and I think this one will end up being the toughest, as I do not have a lot of experience in this area that I can link the concepts to yet.
George LewisProgram/Project Manager| DXC Technology CompanyHeredia, Costa Rica
Jul 07, 2016 2:21 PM
Replying to Veroni Brussen
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8. Project Risk Management
So far I found Project Risk Management the most difficult one. It's quite complex since it has a high volume of inputs, tools/techniques and outputs. Up and until the risk management chapter, I have been able to relate most concepts to my work experience over the past years though.
9. Project Procurement Management
I am now about to start with Procurement Management, and I think this one will end up being the toughest, as I do not have a lot of experience in this area that I can link the concepts to yet.
Pamela PenningtonIT Director| Ride ConnectionPhoenix, Az, United States
It has been over a year now, the exam seems like a distant memory. But I agree the Ethics ones were hard. Also some of the questions regarding earned value and critical path were pretty tricky, required me to draw things out on the scratch pad. But in general, a lot of it is based on logic.
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1 reply by George Lewis
Jul 09, 2016 7:18 AM
George Lewis
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Pamela - there are some things you definetly wants to forget. Even one month after my first PMI test, I didn't want to se the PMBOK at all :) (joke!)
Thanks for your input, have you cast your vote here:
