PM Exam Guide - Your help to PMP® exam

Final posting

2009-12-07T21:18:00.001+01:00

This website is now officially closed, having served the purpose it had been created for. If you have finished your PMP studies and want to prepare your PMP application, please enjoy the free content of this website which will surely help you to do it properly. If you want to contact the author, please write to: pmexamguide[at]gmail.com Have a good day!

How to describe your projects in the PMP application form

2009-12-05T18:08:00.006+01:00

The PMI requires from all applicants to be 'experienced'. Project management experience according to PMI Upon receipt of your application, PMI will check if your role in the described projects is as follows: 1. you were responsible for the project during its entire life cycle - all major aspects like Scope, Time, Cost Management and constraints resulting from them 2. you needed to be a leader

Preparing your PMP Exam application - Part 3

2009-12-01T20:18:00.000+01:00

Project Management Training Having done experience details, all you need to do is to include particulars of your Project Management specific education. You need 35 hours of relevant project management training to be eligible for the PMP Exam. You can add more than one training and summarize the hours. It is worth mentioning that you can document all project management specific training hours

Preparing your PMP Exam application - Part 2

2009-11-27T16:50:00.003+01:00

Hours of experience in each process group As in the example below, each process group needs to have the hours of experience calculated. You do not need to have the experience in all process groups on each project. However, you need to have some hours of experience in all process groups as below: * Initiating * Planning * Executing * Monitoring and Controlling * Closing It

Preparing your PMP Exam application - Part 1

2009-11-23T22:22:00.003+01:00

Having registered to the PMI.org, it is time now to start the PMP exam application procedure. Here is what you need to do: 1. Go to the website: http://www.pmi.org/certapp/ 2. Login using your Username and Password, which you generated during the PMI.org registration process If your login is successful, you will be taken directly to the Project Management Institute Certification Program website.

Free PMP Exam questions

2009-11-20T20:10:00.001+01:00

I would like to share with you my small collection of links to the free PMP Exam question banks on the web. However, there is a disclaimer I would like to make. PMP Exam teaching experts claim that most questions that are free on the web only resemble real exam questions. The actual questions are much harder to solve and phrased differently. In my opionion reviewing these free questions that are

PMBOK 4 - What's new (webcast)

2009-11-17T20:47:00.005+01:00

For those of you who want to find out the basic differences between the 3rd and 4th edition of the PMBOK Guide, here is a short webcast which explains the main differences and introduced changes.

PMP Exam Overview - webcast

2009-11-16T15:30:00.002+01:00

There is a lot of free material about the PMP exam on the web. I have found a short webinar divided into 4 parts which will tell you some more general details about the PMP exam. They come from a pretty well known author Corenlius Fichtner. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Registering an account with the PMI - Step by Step

2009-11-15T17:28:00.001+01:00

You have to be registered with the PMI if you want to start your PMP application process. Some of you reading this post probably would be happy to learn that registering with the PMI.org is free. I would like to show you how easy it is to register an account on the pmi.org web page. Step 0 - Begin - open up your web browser - type the address: http://www.pmi.org - find the 'Register Now' link

How to pay less for the PMP Exam and get more?

2009-11-11T06:52:00.006+01:00

The PMP Exam fee The fee for the PMP Exam is not low - at least not for me. Assuming that you will sit for the Computer Based exam (CBT), the fee is $555 (check the PMP Handbook for latest prices). I guess that for most of you it is a lot of money and lucky you if your company pays for it. The benefits There is an easy way to decrease the fee and take advantage of various benefits the PMI.org

Calculating the hours of experience - Part 3

2009-11-08T17:07:00.002+01:00

PMP Hours Calculation Sheet I have developed a model in MS Excel to calculate the hours needed for the PMP exam application. To use the model you need the following input data: 1. A list of non overlapping projects from the last 3 years 2. Project exact start and end dates. If it was only one or two phases of a bigger project, the dates of your assignment started and stopped. 3. Percent

Calculating the hours of experience - Part 2

2009-11-05T18:20:00.004+01:00

I remember quite well that calculating the hours of experience for the PMP Exam application was difficult for me because I had no clue how to approach it. I took me weeks to find ideas on the internet that allowed me some progress. As probably most people who are not consultants, I was not obliged to maintain my weekly timesheets. I had to find some other way. To calculate the hours I had to

Calculating the hours of experience - Part 1

2009-11-04T17:33:00.018+01:00

In order to be eligible to sit for the PMP exam, you also need to calculate the hours of your experience. These calculations will be needed for your application process. Choosing projects First of all, you must be careful which projects you choose to report in your application. As the PMP Handbook states, you cannot count overlapping projects' hours. You are only allowed to choose the hours from

Eligibility criteria for the PMP exam

2009-11-02T05:29:00.010+01:00

The PMP credential is probably different to most tests. If you take a language test as an example, you can sit even the proficiency test in Chinese and nobody will ask you for any prerequisites. As long as you pay the exam fee, you can sit this exam (and fail of course). In order to sit for the PMP exam you must meet certain educational and professional experience requirements. Only meeting

Types of questions on the PMP exam

2009-10-30T18:39:00.000+01:00

PMP Questions construction The construction of the PMP exam questions is identical for all 200 questions: there is the introduction with a question (or a question only) and four answers. When you start doing tests you will quickly discover that there are a few types of questions on the PMP exam. Generally there is a rule of thumb that says that in most questions, if you are prepared, you will

How the PMP exam is organised?

2009-10-29T16:58:00.005+01:00

PMI and your practice First of all it is worth remembering during the entire exam preparation period that the PMP exam is based on practice. It means that most of the questions will be based on situtations and your task in choosing the right answer is to know which behaviour is suggested by the PMI to be followed. However, you should not base your answers only on your real-projects experience.

Is it worth the effort to take the PMP® exam?

2009-10-25T19:58:00.002+01:00

We live in the world where there is an affluence of many things, also skills. I you want to hire a specialist in the field of project management how to tell instantly the ones with little experience from these who are experienced. Also what can you do if you need a project manager but you yourself do not know a lot about it? It is best to let somebody to certify that the thing you need is of good

About this blog

2009-09-25T19:42:00.002+02:00

Hello My Reader I would like to welcome you and invite you to read my short set of articles about the PMP® Exam. I have created this site for testing purposes but with my original content. I have passed the PMP® exam in January 2008 after 6 months of preparation. For me the goal was not so much about achieving the certificate but to use the exam training and available materials to upgrade my