here's your complete guide to exam questions

Published: Tue, 07/04/17

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam
The Complete Guide to Exam Questions
Practice makes perfect. If you were a baseball player, you don’t want to be up at the bat only to strike out. You may practice against a teammate to improve your swing, but ultimately, there is no real substitute for playing a real game. When you play a competitive sport, after all your hard work in preparing and training, you want to win. It is the same with the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. A PMP® credential is an important one to advance in your career. On the day of the PMP® exam, when you are at the PMP exam center, you want to pass!
 
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Let's help Steve and give him some tips:

"For those who have recently taken the PMP, what was the topic, item or question style that took you by surprise?

Something you came away from the test thinking that I totally did not expect that and would be prepared for if you had to take it again."

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Finding the Best Answer to Exam Sample Questions
The PMP Exam is not an easy exam. You have to find the correct answer to 200 multiple choice questions within 4 hours. That's just 1.2 minutes for each. And sometimes it looks like more than one of them are correct. In this free episode of The PM PrepCast we discuss 2 concepts and 4 techniques of how to approach questions and finding the "best" answer. This episode is a good example of a series of episodes in which we discuss study tips and tricks. We empower you.
 
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Lessons Learned from Steven Mudrinich, PMP
Lessons learned towards becoming a Project Management Professional (PMP)® shared to us by PM PrepCast student Steven Mudrinich, PMP.

"I passed the PMP® exam today on my first try after studying for a little over three months. I went into the exam expecting it to be very similar to the PM Exam Simulator and in fact, it actually was! Thinking about it, I would argue that the exam was actually probably a little less rigorous than the PrepCast Exam Simulator with a few notable exceptions that I can't detail here for ethics reasons. Overall, I scored Proficient in four categories (Initiating, Executing, M&C, and Closing) and Moderately Proficient in Planning. Here's how I did it..."
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Sample Question and Answer
Your project is in an early stage and you need to estimate the overall duration. Based on your experience with similar past projects, you estimate a 6-month completion time. What is this type of estimation technique called?

A. Three Point Estimate
B. Bottom-up-estimating
C. WAG
D. Analogous
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HINT: This is a gross estimating technique.
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