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There’s More Than One Way to Go Phishing

March 31, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

We’ve all gotten phished before. Phishing is the practice of using fraudulent emails and copies of legitimate websites to extract private data from users for illegal or malicious reasons. Every email user at some point in time will get some sort of phishing email. It’s nearly guaranteed, and their frequency is increasing each day.

PMP Question of the Week: Specialized Tool

March 30, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You are in the process of developing a detailed description of your project. What is the specialized knowledge, skill, training or experience that you should use as a tool in this process?

PMP Question of the Week: Traceability Matrix

March 23, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

What is the function of the requirements traceability matrix?

PMP Question of the Week: Estimate Duration

March 16, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

You, the project manager, and your new, inexperienced project team are preparing initial activity duration estimates for a network upgrade project. You are relying on the team to provide the estimates because this project is not new to the enterprise. Which of the following tools and techniques should the project team use to estimate duration for this project?

PMP Question of the Week: Qualitative Risk Analysis

March 9, 2015 Guest Authors Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

The project manager and several team members have worked together on two previous projects that ended unsuccessfully. The team is now performing qualitative risk analysis to review and rank over 100 possible risks for the next project. Which approach to qualitative risk analysis should they take?