How To Avoid Seven Most Common Exam Mistakes

Published: Mon, 10/15/18

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam

How To Avoid Seven Most Common
PMP® Exam Mistakes

Planning for, taking, and passing the PMP® exam can be a long and stressful journey. What better way is there to take a little stress off and help yourself prepare than to learn from those who have gone before you? Here we will look at seven of the most common mistakes identified by those who did not pass the PMP the first time, but ultimately learned from that and made adjustments to pass on their second try. If you would also like to learn from their mistakes, keep reading.

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Sample Question and Answer

You have just taken over a project to overhaul the company's telecommunications network. During your first week, you determine that the engineers spend at least 80% of their time responding to unexpected requests for information from different project stakeholders. Because of these interruptions, your engineers cannot focus on their assigned project activities, which is resulting in frequent network outages. What should you do first?

A. Immediately tell the engineers to stop responding to unexpected requests since it is not their responsibility

B. Push the engineers to respond to all the requests faster so that they can perform their assigned project activities

C. Ask the engineers to forward all stakeholder inquiries to you so that they can focus on their originally planned tasks

D. Review the communications management plan to understand how stakeholder requests should be handled

HINT: What should a project manager do when issues are recognized?

Find out the correct answer here...

Lessons Learned from
Christopher Dalansky, PMP

"... Be positive through the exam and keep moving to the next question. During the first half the exam I got demotivated seeing difficult questions and I was not even sure whether I am clicking on right answers but trust me, go with your gut feeling. The first answer you click is definitely right and do not change the answers unless you are 100% sure. Carry on the pace and keep on answering. You will get a bit exhausted in the end but remember that you don't have to/ want to give this exam again!..."