Category: PMP Exam Tips

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?...

The GreyCampus online PMP® course has completely been rebuilt for the new PMP® Exam. The quality of the has been improved quite a lot! I have written a new review on the new course here. One of the pre-requisites for the PMP® Certification is getting the required “35 Contact Hours”....

[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...

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...

While studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam, PMP® aspirants will read from the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) about the Project Management Plan (PM Plan). This is the most important document (or collection of documents) for any projects as well as the PMP®...

Many PMP® Certification Exam aspirants find answering PMP® Exam question very difficult. No because of the fact that they are not well prepared for the PMP® Exam but that since many questions appearing on the exam paper are “situational questions”. Arriving at the correct answer of PMP® situational questions is...

The Project Management Institute website has recently been re-organized. PMI claims that the improved website allows “members to find what they are looking for easier“. While this may be true, PMP® aspirants find it a hard time to find out where they can access the FREE books on PMP® exam...