Candidates taking any project management certification exam can benefit from a high-level understanding of these topics.
- Accuracy vs Precision
- Ambiguity vs Uncertainty
- Attribute Sampling vs Variable Sampling
- Backlog
- Burndown and Burnup Charts
- Cadence and Timeboxing
- Common Cause vs Special Cause Variations
- Communication Channels
- Configuration Management System
- Conflict Management
- Contract Types
- Control Charts
- Cost Budget and Reserves
- Crashing vs Fast Tracking
- Critical Path Method
- Daily Standup
- Definition of Done
- Delegation
- Direct Costs vs Indirect Costs
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Earned Schedule
- Earned Value Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Estimation in Project Management
- Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
- Explicit vs Tacit Knowledge
- Fail Fast/Learn Quickly Mindset
- Fist of Five
- Focus Groups vs Facilitated Workshops
- Gold Plating
- Ideal Time
- Impediments, Obstacles, and Blockers
- Information Radiators
- Interpersonal and Team Skills
- Knowledge vs Information
- Lean vs Six Sigma
- Lessons Learned Management
- Meeting Management Techniques
- MoSCoW Technique
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Negotiation
- Non-Functional Requirements in Agile
- Organizational Theories
- Osmotic Communication
- PMI-isms
- Product Quality vs Project Quality
- Progressive Elaboration
- Project Selection Methods
- Quality vs Grade
- Resource Calendar vs Resource Histogram
- Retrospective
- Risk Management Terms
- Risk Response Strategies
- Risk vs Issue
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Rolling Wave Planning
- Rule of Seven - Control Charts
- Scope Creep
- Scope Creep vs Gold Plating
- Sensitivity Analysis and Tornado Diagram
- Servant Leadership
- Shu Ha Ri Model
- Stakeholder Classification
- Story Point
- Triple Constraints
- Tuckman Ladder
- User Story
- Velocity
- Verification vs Validation
- Vision and Mission Statement