Hello, my dear colleagues and friends, this is Dr. Wish greeting you and welcome you to this series of lectures aimed at equipping us some of the most powerful project management tools and of course preparing you to pass successfully from the first attempt to pass the PMP exam. This is probably the main reason why you're here today. Well, let me introduce myself a little bit to you. Originally an electronics engineer had my BSc back in 1990 and I have a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisville. Then early 2005.

I got my PMP for the first time and I've been renewing it ever since. I will talk to you about how to get the PMP Of course and how to renew it and so on. As we go. I'm also PMI SP certified. PMI the Management Institute issues many certifications for those who sit for exams and pass successfully. The main one is the PMP, of course, but there are others such as the PMI SP.

Sp stands for scheduling professional. I got that one in back in nine, and sorry in 2013, early 2013. And of course, I've been renewing it periodically ever since. I have a long experience in project management, managing projects, managing programs, consulting, to rescue troubled projects, building demos, improving project management practices in organizations, and of course, providing scores of project management trainings, many of which are under the title PMP preparation course like the one I'm doing today. Most of my trainings are live courses where I travel to classroom somewhere in the world. I've been delivering live courses on four continents.

And I have delivered a good number of virtual courses online. All over the world of course, I had attendees from all six continents. And this this is the first time I record the course for it to be available on educational platforms via the internet. Right. So let me introduce to you three trademarks here that are going to be over and over mentioned throughout this course, the first of which is PMI the Project Management Institute. This is the institute residing in In the US that issues the standard for project management.

The standard is written in a very nicely constructed and structured book called the Pembroke. Pembroke. That's the next trademark stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge. And of course, there is the PMP, the project management professional, which is the certification that's another trademark. And it represents the certification that you get when you sit for the PMP exam and pass it successfully. And of course with the with the prerequisites that you need to have in order to take the exam in the first place.

So these are the three the three trademarks, PMI, the Project Management Institute, Pim Bock, the Project Management Body of Knowledge and the PMP. The project management professional certification. Now, the way this course is structured is through a series of presentations we have in total 13 of them. This is the first of those 13 and this particular presentation is a short one introducing to you, PMI the pembo the PMP the differences of the latest Pembroke from the one before it, we are in the in the era of the pin box sixth edition now. Alright so, this is what you are going to get in this module and