PEI PMA Grade 3 study guide
PEI PMA Grade 3 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
PEI PMA Grade 3 is a foundation-to-intermediate project management credential. It is aimed at people who already touch project work - coordinators, team leads, engineers or specialists handed a defined deliverable - and who need to show they can apply standard planning and control techniques rather than invent them. Grade 3 assumes you operate inside someone else's governance: you run the schedule, the budget line and the risk log, and you escalate when the tolerances you were given are breached. The content, as described in the current syllabus, groups into five areas: project fundamentals, governance and professional ethics; scope, schedule and cost planning and control; risk, quality and procurement; stakeholder engagement, communication and team leadership; and health, safety, sustainability and regulatory compliance. The PEI PMA Grade 3 study guide has 5 sections and about 2,247 words.
01Project fundamentals
PMA Grade 3 tests whether you can describe a project as a temporary, unique endeavour producing a defined output, and distinguish it from operations, programmes and portfolios. Expect questions on the business case, charter, lifecycle, development approach, organisational structure and the role of the project manager and PMO.
382 words, about 2 min02Governance and professional ethics
Governance is the system by which the project is directed, controlled and held accountable. It sets decision rights, stage gates, reporting lines, assurance and escalation.
362 words, about 2 min03Scope, schedule and cost planning and control
Requirements are elicited, analysed, documented and traced. The scope baseline is the scope statement plus the WBS plus the WBS dictionary.
382 words, about 2 min04Risk, quality and procurement management
Risk is an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, affects objectives. It is not an issue: an issue has already happened and is managed in the issue log.
390 words, about 2 min05Stakeholder engagement, communication and team leadership
Identify stakeholders early and revisit the register through the lifecycle. Analyse power, interest, influence, impact and attitude.
731 words, about 4 min