Category: PMP Exam Tips

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PMI has just posted the new PMP® Exam Content Outline (which is the equivalent of the exam syllabus for the exam) to be effective from 11 Jan 2016 online. It has included a few changes which will affect aspirants in their exam preparation if they plan to take the exam after...

This seems a dump question at first glance. The answer is obviously One should renew the PMP® / PMI-ACP® certification when one has accumulated the required number of PDU (60 for PMP®; 30 for PMI-ACP®) and before the 3-year re-certification period is over. The above is what’s written in the PMP®...

PMI has implemented a major change in the CCR program (i.e. PDU requirements) for PMI Certifications (from 1 December 2015). This post aims to highlight the changes that every Certification holders and aspirants would need to know. Summary: How to Get PDU in the Correct Talent Triangle Skills Area for FREE?...

One of the pre-requisites for the PMP® Certification is getting the required “35 Contact Hours”. Some Aspirants would reflect that they do not have the time for the 35 face-to-face contact hours in lectures. Luckily, with the advancement of technologies, PMI allow Aspirants to earn the “Contact Hours” through Online...

[PMI-ACP® exam study notes]  Both the PMP® Certification as well as the PMI-ACP® Certification are created and administrated by the Project Management Institute. This post addresses the relationship between what is written in the PMBOK® Guide (PMP® exam) and Agile principles and practices (PMI-ACP® exam). Agile Project Management (PMI-ACP®) There is no official...

Is reading the PMBOK® Guide absolutely required? Many PMP® aspirants will surely have this question in mind while preparing for the PMP® Certification exam. This post will give an overview of what the PMBOK® Guide is and explain why you would like to read it during your PMP® exam preparation....

Perhaps one of the most dreaded type of PMP® Exam questions is the calculation questions. To the majority of project managers, calculation is usually performed automatically through project management softwares. However, in the real PMP® Certification Exam, only an on-screen calculator is provided. The PMP® aspirants need to memorize all...

I prepared and passed the PMP® Certification Exam by using PM PrepCast™, that’s why I recommend the PM PrepCast™ PMP® Exam Prep study material to fellow PMP® aspirants as a way to get the required PMI 35 contact hours as well as to be fully prepared for the actual PMP® exam....

Recently, I received an email from a reader inquiring about online PMP® training / exam prep. The reader came across an online PMP® course that offers “unlimited reseat of the PMP® exam” (including PMP® re-exam fees). This offer seems to be too good to be true. I dug into the exact...

PM PrepCast™ Review — The PM PrepCast™ is my choice for PMP® Exam Prep course. It can help busy young working professionals in the field of project management to get PMP® certified with tight budgets and limited time. It has been thoroughly updated to the latest PMP® Exam syllabus of 2017. The course...

While there are many websites on the internet teaching PMP® aspirants how to get PMP® certified, most of them contain information that are either incomplete or disorganized. A PMP® aspirants emailed me recently expressing the frustrations he had while searching for useful PMP® Certification Exam information. Tips for the PMP®...

Recently, I got an email enquiry about the PMP® Certification Examination and how to prepare for the PMP® Exam. As the answers would be useful to other PMP® aspirants, the Q&A are published below with a view to helping other people aiming to get PMP® certified with the same queries....

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is a publication by the Project Management Institute (PMI) which documents the standards and best practices for the field of project management. Currently in the fifth edition, the PMBOK® Guide is considered one of the most important exam prep...

The PMI PMP® Certification Exam is administered in English only (the official PMP® Exam Language). For those whose mother tongue is not English, including me, answering an English exam paper may require more time. We are at a disadvantaged position as the final result of the exam would need to be...