Planning and Development Practice Exam

Planning and Development

A Planning and Development professional strives towards delivering office support and managing and executing administrative duties such as maintaining the calendar, scheduling meetings, making travel plans, organizing meetings, planning conferences, and performing other administrative functions. It is, therefore, a very demanding job and people who aspire to become planning and development professionals are ought to be knowledgeable and skilled.

Roles and Responsibilities

Some of the major roles and responsibilities of these professionals include the following:

• Scheduling office and client visits.

• Updating individual and office-wide calendars and planning for meetings, conferences, and trips

• Perform multiple tasks while keeping meeting strict deadlines

• Developing process improvements in order to boost efficiency and productivity levels.

• Work directly with top management as well as the junior staff of the company.

Who should take this exam?

Anyone with a bachelor’s or a master’s degree in the related field specially engineering can take this exam to build their skillset and increase their career opportunities.

Skills Required

• Communication skills

• Problem-solving and Decision-making

• Leadership

• Analytical skills

• Data visualisation

Career Prospects

• Project manager

• Estate manager

• Construction manager

• Estimator

Table of Content

The Planning and Development Exam covers the following topics - 

Project management

• Project

• Learning project management

• Learning project management approaches

• Learning project life cycle

• Stakeholders

• Learning project scope

• Base lining

Project planning and scheduling

• Introduction

• Learning the specification

• Providing structure

• Learning establishing controls

• Artistry in planning

• Learning planning for the future

• Learning importance of project planning

Planning and scheduling techniques

• To-do lists

• Learning bar charts

• Learning flowchart

• Learning critical path method (cpm)

• Learning program evaluation and review technique (pert)

• Arrow diagramming method

• Learning precedence diagram method

• Learning line of balance (lob)

Activity and schedule

• Learning activity basics

• Activity definition

• Learning activity sequencing

• Learning activity resource estimating

• Activity duration estimation

• Schedule development

• Learning schedule control

Constructing network diagram

• Introduction

• Learning network construction

• Event representation

• Learning constructing a network diagram from wbs

Aon basics

• Introduction

• The workflow

• Learning drawing of activity diagram

• Examples

Forward pass and backward pass

• Introduction

• Learning forward pass

• Learning backward pass

• Calculating and executing a forward and backward pass

• Constructing forward and backward pass project management

• Learning forward pass / backward pass calculation

Precedence diagramming method

• Introduction

• Learning explanation

• Constructing diagram and computations

• Learning sample pdm network diagram

• Learning gantt charts

Cpm/pert

• Learning cpm/pert

• Calculations in network analysis

• Calculation of expected time and variance of a path in pert

• Learning cpm/pert network development

• Learning cpm& pert weaknesses & strengths

• Learning advantages of pert and cpm

Pert/cpm simulation

• Introduction

• Learning description of cpm/pert

• Learning modification in cpm/pert

• Learning simplified pert procedure

• Reviews

• Structure and elements of simplified

• Learning algorithm of simplified cpm/pert

Reducing project duration

• Introduction

• Learning project audit and closure

• Learning steps to reduce project duration

• Learning project crashing

• Conclusion

• Learning project time-cost trade-off

• Activity time-cost relationship

Uncertainty and risk management

• Introduction

• Learning risk management plan

• Learning risk identification techniques

• Learning risk management processes

• Learning strategies to meet the risks