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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By : J. Ashley Hunt
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Becoming a PMP® Certified Professional

By: J. Ashley Hunt

Overview of this book

One of the five most prestigious certifications in the world, the PMP® exam is said to be the most difficult non-technical certification exam. With this exam guide, you'll be able to address the challenges in learning advanced project management concepts. This PMP study guide covers all of the 10 project management knowledge areas, 5 process groups, 49 processes, and aspects of the Agile Practice Guide that you need to tailor your projects. With this book, you will understand the best practices found in the sixth edition of the PMBOK® Guide and the newly updated exam content outline. Throughout the book, you'll learn exam objectives in the form of a project for better understanding and effective implementation of real-world project management tasks, helping you to not only prepare for the exam but also implement project management best practices. Finally, you'll get to grips with the entire application and testing processes in PMP® and discover numerous tips and techniques for passing the exam on your first attempt. By the end of this PMP® exam prep book, you'll have a solid understanding of everything you need to pass the PMP® certification exam, and be able to use this handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide to overcome challenges in project management.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Project Management and People
8
Section 2: Project Management Processes
17
Section 3: Revision
19
Chapter 16: Final Exam

Study tips

Take and retake practice exams until you score approximately 85-90 percent several times in a row. Be aware that the practice questions in your student guide will not be the exact same questions you will get in your exam as there is a test pool of thousands of questions.

You never know which questions you will get on your exam. You could be sitting next to someone taking their PMP® exam and they would have a different pool of questions to answer. The content is the same, but it is presented in different ways.

The exam itself is not adaptive, so the pool of questions you get when you sit down will not change based on your knowledge of one topic over the other.

I highly recommend that you use practice questions as a way to solidify the information rather than to rote memorize it, as you will find that the actual exam questions will differ.

If you do find yourself memorizing the answers without actually knowing why one answer is correct versus incorrect, it...