Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam, Second Edition
Author: Michael W. Newell
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ISBN: 0814471722
Publisher: AMACOM (November, 2002)
Sales Rank: 42,641
Average Customer Rating: 2.87 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Don't use this book to study for the exam.
I was very dissapointed with this book. The entire PMBOK was updated in 2000, this book was published in the late 90s, and did not reflect new methodology. Check the publish dates here and see for yourself. Many chapters, like the chapter on Risk, were entirely incorrect. Nothing was more frustrating that spending a lot of time studying material that you later find is incorrect. This book should be pulled from the shelves as it provides users with incorrect information.I'm also disappointed by the bogus reviews here. This book's information is substantially outdated and cannot be effective.
The sample questions in the back were especially bad. They were plagarized word-for-word from old PMI publications, and the answers were often incredibly incorrect. Even worse, the memorization based nature of the questions in this book were entirely different than the situational based questions in the exam, and provided no preparation value.
If you're studying for the test, don't waste your time with this, spend the money and get the Rita's exam prep book, it's incredibly expensive, but worth the money.
If you want some basic project information for the fun of it, this book has some value.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent Supplement to the PMBOK
There is no doubt that you need to be thoroughly familiar with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) in order to pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. I took the test this week and passed on the first try, responding to 85% of the questions correctly.
My experienct is that about 70% of all the test questions can be answered correctly using the PMBOK alone. However, a score of 70% is just passing. This means that you have to gain additional insight and knowledge from supplemental materials or attend courses to have a better chance of being certified on the first try.
The only learning tool that I used in my two weeks of preparation was Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Exam by Michael W. Newell. The author's alternative presentation of the core PMBOK material made them much easier to understand. The book is especially useful for its statistics' explanations. Importantly, the book also includes many specific items that were part of the test, which do not appear in the PMBOK. The hundreds of questions contained in the book were excellent preparation for the test. In fact, many of them were actually on the test. You can't beat that!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP) Cert
Did not find this book to be useful. The "PMP®: Project Management Professional Study Guide" by Kim Heldman
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