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This week's featured lessons learned comes to us courtesy of Varun Malhotra, PMP.

In this lesson learned Varun Malhotra, PMP shares with us his experiences and tips in passing the PMP exam

1) Don't go thru a lot of study material (it will confuse you). Just stick with one quality book and PMBOK. In my case, I only used PM Prepcast (extremely helpful and handy) and PMBOK5...

The Project Management Institute's Project Management Professional credential is a globally recognized certification of project management knowledge, skills and experience. So it's not surprising that PMI takes great care to insure the quality of its certification process, from application through post certification.  

When you apply to sit for PMI's PMP Certification, you will submit a qualification of your education, quantification of your project management experience and classroom hours. If accepted, you can then take the PMP Exam. And if you pass, you'll be added to the PMI list of certified Project Management Professionals with all its privileges...

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This PMP exam sample question is taken from Free PMP Exam Simulator

You have just been assigned as a new project manager for a hotel construction project. You and your company have completed numerous similar projects in the past and all the information regarding these projects is available in your Organizational Process Assets. You have all the per unit prices for the raw materials and resources that will be required to complete the project. You also have a team of very talented project team members who can help you develop an accurate bottom-up cost estimate for the project. If you have to provide your project sponsor with a very quick project cost estimate, which of the following techniques should you use?

A. Bottom-Up Estimate    
B. Parametric Estimate    
C. Analogous Estimate    
D. Three-point Estimate

Hint: Which of the techniques requires the least time to develop an estimate?

The PMP Exam is not an easy exam. You have to find the correct answer to 200 multiple choice questions within 4 hours. That's just 1.2 minutes for each. And sometimes it looks like more than one of them are correct. In this free episode of The PM PrepCast we discuss 2 concepts and 4 techniques of how to approach questions and finding the "best" answer.

Achieve PMP Exam Success
by Margaret Chu, Diane Altwies, Janice Preston

This book comes highly recommended because it was the book Cornelius Fichtner, PMP (the president of our company) used when preparing for his own PMP exam.

The material contained within the PMBOK Guide heavily influences the PMP exam. Unfortunately, many people studying for their exam find the PMBOK Guide to be difficult to read. Many students have been intimidated by the sample exam questions because they weren't able to fully comprehend the material within the guide.

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