My PMP Exam, PMI-ACP Agile, ITIL v4 Foundation Certification: Free Study Notes & Tips -- through Online Self Study for Working Professionals


Updated for the new PMP Exam: I have painstakingly updated the free study notes as well as other learning guides for the PMP Exam for the new PMP Exam in 2023. Wish you PMP success!
Below are my latest published blog posts on Certification Tips and Web Development:

[Free PMP PDU] Six Sigma White Belt Certification Program

[Free PMP PDU] Six Sigma White Belt Certification Program

Summary: Six Sigma Online provides a free Six Sigma White Belt  Training and Certification. You just need to watch a video, read four PDF files (3-6 pages each) and pass the online quiz to get your certificate. As Six Sigma is mentioned in the quality management section of PMP, time spent...

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PDU for the PMP Claimed 2013-2016 Cycle

Summary: Every PMP will need to accumulate at least 60 PDUs for every 3-year PMP re-certification cycle. PMI may carry out PDU audits. I use this blog post to record my history of PDU claimed for my PMP certification together with the evidences for the claimed activities in case PMI may...

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Claim PDU for Reading Books Related to Project Managment

Summary: PMI allows PMPs to claim PDUs by reading books related to project management. The PDUs claimed in this way fall into Cat C: Self-Directed Learning which has a ceiling of 30 PDUs per 3-year PMP certification cycle. Earn PDUs through Reading Books If you would like to claim PDUs through...

Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership

Summary: Transformational leaders bring out the best of their team members by inspiring them with a clear and achievable vision. Why Transformational Leadership? team members are fiercely loyal team members are highly successful – as individuals, and as a team. bring about enormous changes to the organization What is Transformational Leadership?...

Inspiring Quotes of Nelson Mandela

Inspiring Quotes of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela rested in peace on 5 December, 2013. His teaching long lives. Tribute to the hero of our times. “There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach...

Better Form Design

Form Design for Better Conversion

Summary: The sweet spot for the length of form is five to ten fields (with seven fields as optimal). A form with one field is often perceived as spammy. A/B Testing is very important to understand consumer behavior as gut feeling will not always serve you right. The Test TruckersReport, a...

.htaccess URL Rewrite Simplified

.htaccess URL Rewrite Simplified

Summary: If you are hosting your websites on Apache servers, it is just a matter of time you will get in touch will .htaccess and URL Rewrite rules and the fearful 500 Server Error code. This article will try to ease your headache by explaining these in simple terms. Locate...

Justify Chinese Text Using CSS 網頁中文字左右對齊

Justify Chinese Text Using CSS 網頁中文字左右對齊

Summary: Support for Chinese text alignment varies between different browsers. Using the following CSS rule can ensure cross-browser support to justify Chinese text with CSS. text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; // this is an IE-only style Justify Chinese Text with CSS – The Explanation Without specifying the paragraph alignment, English has...

Advanced mySQL queries

Advanced mySQL queries

Summary: This post assemblies a number of useful but not-commonly-used language constructs of mySQL. Ordering of Results Follow an Order Specified by a List ORDER BY FIELD (column, ‘sample A’,’sample B’,’sample C’,’sample D’) The result will be ordered by 1 – sample A, 2 – sample B, 3 – sample...

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An Easy-to-follow Guide to Speed Up WordPress Websites for Free

Summary: WordPress powers around 20% of all websites, including this All Things Web blog you are reading. However, owing to the way it is coded, out of the box WordPress websites are not fast enough. This article provides 14 of ways to speed up WordPress websites, empowering novices and WordPress ninjas alike...

Lean UX

How to integrate UX design into an Agile Development Environment

Summary: In the book Lean UX, the authors Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden try to integrate UX design into Agile/Scrum methodology in such a way the whole team can work together to drive the best user experience through iterative propositions/experiments/results analysis cycles. Why Lean UX? Most software development teams have...

How to Talk to Anyone?

How to Talk to Anyone?

Summary: This article presents the lessons learned from reading the book How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Neil Lowndes. Anyone can become a good communication if the 92 little tricks are learnt by heart. Gone are the days when web developers just need to...

hubspot inbound certification

Hubspot Inbound Certification

Introduction: Below is the study notes for the Hubspot Inbound Certification exam. Hubspot offers if for free and this certification is considered to be one of the most credible online marketing certification. Re-certification is needed every year as the knowledge for online marketing is ever-changing. Inbound Methodology The inbound methodology...

internet buzzwords

Internet Buzzwords

Summary: I recently received the eDM below which makes use of quite a number of internet buzzwords which makes the message rather obscure (of course some would argue that the message may look very tech-savvy). Below I will try to explain the buzzwords in a more plain and approachable language. Here...