Creating and Using Flash Cards as a Tool in Passing Your Exam

Published: Tue, 11/05/19

For your Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam

Creating and Using Flash Cards as a Tool

in Passing Your Exam

As you begin to dive into the formidable goal of passing your PMP® exam by Project Management Institute (PMI)® you will find there are many tools and techniques that can be implemented to make your studying not only easier but less stressful.

While navigating through the numerous study guides and websites you will find a never-ending amount of information on free PMP resources, some of it will be very helpful, and some of what you find will not be.

When you sit for the PMP exam anything in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is testable. Memorization alone will not provide you with enough to pass your PMP, you must fully understand the material that will be on the test to a granular level.

Cornelius interviews Sunil Prashara,
President and CEO of PMI®

In this PM Podcast episode, Cornelius interviews Sunil Prashara who is the President and CEO of PMI.

This interview was recorded at the PMI Global Conference 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. We discuss Sunil's responsibilities within PMI, how project management is changing the world, delve into PMI's transformational journey and touch upon how PMI members can help the organization succeed in today's constantly evolving environment.

Here is what one of my colleagues had to say after listening to the interview:

"Bravo! That was an awesome interview! I was very impressed with Sunil, on many levels. He is a true visionary who knows himself and the changing world around him. He is an excellent speaker who understands project management, PMI, and it’s potential future.
This is an interview that many people will listen to and say, "Wow! This is where the future of project management and PMI is headed and it’s inspiring." - Jonathan Hebert, PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP

Sample Question and Answer

A couple of weeks ago we published a sample exam question and answer with the incorrect link to the correct answer.

Sincere apologies for this mistake. So, in this newsletter, we will publish that same q and a and link it to the correct answer. Here it is:

You are employed by a software development company as a project manager. Your company has a policy that a change control board (CCB) reviews all of the change requests for every project in your organization, and the CCB follows all the recommended activities outlined in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). You and your project team do not serve as members of the CCB. Based on this scenario, which of the following activities might be performed by members of the CCB?

A. Creating a change request
B. Implementing approved change requests
C. Initiating and closing a project
D. Monitoring implementation of approved changes

HINT: Which answer choices are the responsibilities of the project manager and the project team?

Get the correct answer here!

Student Profile: Jayanth Suravarapu, PMP

"...In the last week before the exam, I recommend that students walk through the notes/summary that was taken during their preparation, and after the review of each practice test. I suggest them not to take any 4 hour full length test in the last week before the exam. Have a good sleep and keep your mind fresh before the exam. These inputs helped me get "Above Target" result in all the process groups..."