In the course of my review for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, here are important information that would edge one to pass the exam.
- The PMP exam is all about PMI-ism, i.e., how the Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org) thinks about how project management is done. Hence, try to forget all your past knowledge about project management or reconcile them with that of PMI.
- Internalize Process Group vs Knowledge Area Process Matrix
- Understand which process comes before or after which process
- Familiarize Inputs, Tools & Techniques, Outputs for each process.
- Know the mathematical formula.
- Answer tons of sample PMP questions!
- Find the real question in a wordy question.
- Notice which choices twist around the truth to make them incorrect.
- Go for that choice that “take action”, i.e., project manager acts upon the situation rather than being passive
- Watch out for made-up terms and misused terms that seem to fit on the exam
- Select the ‘best’ answer for the question.
- Contextualize the options based where it occurs on Process Groups or sequence of processes.
- Be keen to notice “not”, “except”, “least”, “most” and other similar generalizing (key) words in the question.
Hope these help you! Break a leg!
