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Andy Crowe's The PMP Exam: How to Pass On Your First Try

PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP
Exam

I cleared my PMP on June 30, 2009. I read your lessons learnt in detail. You can also
read my lessons learnt which I posted today few minutes back. Here are my
suggestions, for passing the exam for you.

1.Books you can read Headfirst, to clarify concepts, PMBOK Glossary, Tools and
Techniques, remember by heart, every 44 process, you should know by heart, in which
process group is it, read Rita Malcahy also.

2. Along with reading, dont ever stop practicing questions, every day make it a point to
at least practice 40-50 questions daily without fail, be it from rita fast track cd or
anywhere else (I used fast track cd rita). Specially one month before the exam, you
should do it continuously, and your score should be more than 90 percent.

3. Become member of PMHUB.NET and read every piece, in detail, initially spend one or
two days exploring that site, it has loads and volumes of information stored in itself.

4. Always read tools and techniques daily, paste it on your desk and glance through
daily without fail, specially one month before D day.

5. Numerical questions, you were not sure, thats what you said. Let me tell you these
are the only questions which you are very sure that you have done right in the whole
exam.Practice hard on these so that you can do them without much time getting
wasted in real exam, there is only practice that can make you perfect.

6. You said you scored more than 75 percent in each exam, including PMSTUDY, let me
ask you, did you give all the four exams for PMSTUDY, if not, then buy all the four
exams from pmstudy and specially, make a note of all the wrong answers and anayze
those, only then you will be able to know your weak points.

If yes, you gave all the four exams, then after fourth exam, you should have score
more than eighty percent, and did you analyse the wrong answers and wrote in your
note pad after analysing for revising later.

7. Most important, whatever questions you wrong, please start writing in your notebook,
so that you can revise later. As just before 2 3 days before, you need to revise all
those,.....
I think this is the mantra I could give you. Hopefully it will help you. Please let me know
in case you need any other information.

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Questions:

1. What is Matrix organization?


[ANSWER]: Functional and Management org structures.
2. What is Gold Plating?
[ANSWER]: Adding Extra Functionality than what was required!
3. What is Network diagram?
[ANSWER]: A diagram which shows the sequence of activities with dependencies. PDM
(precedence diagram method).
4. What is project critical Path?
5. What is project charter?
[ANSWER]: This is a document preferably prepared by the project sponsor which lists down the
business need, a brief description, milestones, project manager, tentative budget etc. This is a
must have for any project to start.
6. What is earned value analysis?
7. What is padding?
[ANSWER]: Adding additional effort simply because you do not have all the required details
required to estimate a particular activity.
8. How do you calculate Schedule and Cost variance figures?
9. What is Job Shadowing?
[ANSWER]: Observing stakeholders while at work to collect requirements based on their usage a
particular product.
10. What is Plurality of decision making while prioritization of requirements?
[ANSWER]: A majority (50%) is not achieved but the largest group among the stakeholders will
decide for the entire group.
11. Are Critical Success Factors and Project Objectives same?
[ANSWER]: Yes!
12. What is value analysis/value engineering?
[ANSWER]: Decreasing project cost at the same scope.
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