Project Management Knowledge Areas Summary

I was reading the Project Management Knowledge Areas Summary by PMP Exam Resource and found that they have a very good summary on the Project Management Knowledge Area.

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The PMBOK® Guide defines project management knowledge areas as:

• Project Integration Management,
  the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It consists of project plan development, project plan execution, and overall change control.
  
  
• Project Scope Management,
  the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. It consists of initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
  
  
• Project Time Management,
  the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project. It consists of activity definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development, and schedule control.
  
  
• Project Cost Management,
  the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. It consists of resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control.
  
  
• Project Quality Management,
  the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It consists of quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
  
  
• Project Human Resource Management,
  the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It consists of organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.
  
  
• Project Communications Management,
  the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. It consists of communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure.
  
  
• Project Risk Management,
  the processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk. It consists of risk identification, risk quantification, risk response development, and risk response control.
  
  
• Project Procurement Management,
  the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization. It consists of procurement planning, solicitation planning, solicitation, source selection, contract administration, and contract close-out.
  
  
• Professional Responsibility,
  the tasks, knowledge, and skills required to ensure integrity, contribute to knowledge base, apply professional knowledge, balance stakeholder interest, and respect differences.