Studying for and earning your PMP Certification can be a costly affair, some training courses can cost upwards of several thousand US Dollars. However, there are ways to cut your costs and still have access to valuable and useful study tools. Below we will discuss several ways you can lower the cost of studying for and obtaining your PMP Certification that does not include spending a lot of money. Read through our seven savings tips and you'll see that lowering your cost for taking the PMP Exam is not that hard.

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Team building is another essential skill for a good project manager to possess.  The nature of a project is that there are people from various different departments involved. In most cases, these people have not had the opportunity to work together and they may not even be familiar with each other's departments. If the project manager isn't able to turn these individuals into a team that is focused on the same goal, the project may not reach it's potential.

You are the project manager on a new nationwide telecom network. Your client told you that conformance to the highest quality standards is mandatory but this client is new to the telecom industry and is unable to provide specific technical parameters. Your client said that the network's conformance should be graded against the leading telecom operator in the country. What is this practice called?
A.) Cost-Benefit Analysis
B.) Pairwise Comparison
C.) Benchmarking
D.) Quality Metrics

Filling out the application for the PMP exam can be a project in itself. In this second part of The PM PrepCast's video series on preparing for the PMP exam, you'll get some tools and learn some best practices that will help you fill out the application efficiently-thus inching you closer to your goal of earning PMP certification.