Thanks-and please thank your PMP friend for me. :-)
John From: Shauna Hensala [mailto:she...@msn.com] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: PMI PMP Certification Contact a PMP friend - here's his take: PMI is in fact changing their exam on August 31st. As I recall, the professional and social responsibility piece will now be tested across all domains-so professional and social responsibility will now be integrated into every area and question. The new exam content outline can be found here: http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Project-Management-Professional-PMP/~/media/PDF/Certifications/PMP%20Examination%20Content%20Outline_2010.ashx<http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Project-Management-Professional-PMP/%7E/media/PDF/Certifications/PMP%20Examination%20Content%20Outline_2010.ashx> I assume this guy already has his 35 contact hours to take the exam and has completed his application and had it approved? Those are two critical steps. If so, then I'd direct him to www.rmcprojectmanagement.com<http://www.rmcprojectmanagement.com/> Rita Mulcahy's company produces study guides for the PMP exam and I've heard nothing but great things from my fellow PMPs (including my boss) about her course materials. I've taken a couple of PDU earning courses from RMC and I can say they are pretty good. Get a study guide from there, make sure it includes PMP practice exams and cram, cram, cram. Memorize all formulas in the PMBOK. Because you're not allowed to take ANYTHING into the exam with you at Prometric. Know how to calculated PERT and Earned Value and Schedule and Cost Performance indices, Estimate At Completion, Budget At Completion and the number of communication paths. Memorize the charge on Page 43 of the 4th Edition of the PMBOK (www.gantthead.com<http://www.gantthead.com/> had a really nice PDF of the project lifecycle for the 3rd edition of the PMBOK, don't know if they ever updated it for the fourth edition) and be able to draw it from memory. Memorize inputs, outputs, tools and techniques for and know the interrelationships of each project management process group and knowledge area. When he walks into the exam, he should take as much time as need needs to reproduce the chart and all the memorized formulas from memory (he'll have scratch paper). That will serve as a reference for him. The reason for memorizing P43 of the PMBOK (or the gantthead chart if he can get the updated one) is that on the PMP exam you have to be able to know where you are in the PMI process, then know what inputs/outputs/tools and techniques would be applicable to correctly answer the question. He should NOT let any real world PM experience bear on his answer to a question because it's irrelevant. He should assume he is in the PERFECT project, functioning EXACTLY according to how PMI says it should run. Before I took the exam, I took 3 days off and crammed and took practice exams. I checked on gantthead but didn't see an updated lifecycle flow chart. The one I have is from 2006-2007 and only applies to the 3rd Edition of the PMBOK-which is what I took my test against. [https://gfx6.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr04/ltr/emo/ids_emoticon_rose.gif]Shauna Hensala ________________________________ From: john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:13:32 -0400 Subject: OT: PMI PMP Certification I was wondering if there were any certified PMPs out there that could give me pointers on the exam. I had planned on taking it in around two months, but I just caught wind of the fact PMI is changing it on August 31. So now I'm cramming to see if I can get it done before the change. I took two project management courses in grad school pretty recently, and am currently reading a couple of PMP study guides. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us<http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
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