TABLE OF CONTENTS A major portion of professional responsibility questions on the PMP certification exam is based on ethics. Common sense, ethical values and your own experience will play a large role in your ability to answer the questions on this topic. The PMI Project Management Professional Code of Professional Conduct (available at http://www.pmi.org) and the PMP Role Delineation Study (available at the PMI bookstore) are source material for this part of the exam. In addition, you should have an understanding of cultural and global values necessary to manage projects in today's multinational environment.
The 6 performance domains of project management and the percentage of test questions in each domain appearing on the exam:
| 20 questions | (11.6%) |
| 40 questions | (22.7%) |
| 48 questions | (27.5%) |
| 37 questions | (21.0%) |
| 15 questions | (8.6%) |
| 15 questions | (8.6%) |
Background and findings of the Role Delineation Study
The definition of Culture
The Changing Business Environment
Driving Forces in Global Businesses
How to apply professional responsibility concepts to Working on Multicultural Project Teams
Professional Responsibility and PMBOK Guide Knowledge Areas
Communication Context: languages generally fall on a sliding scale of high to low context. Recipients of high-context language messages need to know the situation and environment of the message in order to understand it. An example of a high-context message is poetry, in which rhyme, meter, allegory and...
